Heartbreaking images have emerged of homeless people sleeping in the pouring rain amid subzero temperatures in Glasgow in what a charity has described as a "harrowing" night.
Street teams from Homeless Project Scotland had been patrolling the city centre during the early hours of last Tuesday before they stumbled across half a dozen rough sleepers who were "in despair".
They had been clinging onto respite underneath archways and doorways as brutal weather elements forced them to sleep in temperatures of minus two.