Police probe series of fireraising attacks in Bathgate after 10-year-olds light aerosol

Children as young as 10 were involved.

Police are appealing for information after a series of fireraising incidents at Strathlogie Westfield in Bathgate.

In the first incident children aged 10-13 lit an aerosol can in the evening of January 25.

One of the boys is thought to have been wearing a yellow or mustard-coloured hoodie.

The incidents were at Strathlogie.

In a second incident on January 27 a bin and coal bunker were set on fire.

West Lothian Police has issued an appeal for witnesses.

Anyone with information is asked to contact DC Barrie Carlin at Livingston CID on 101.