Stewartry’s Deputy Lord Lieutenant has called on Dumfries and Galloway to get ready for an influx of Ukrainian refugees.
Chris Walker has written to the council’s interim chief executive Derek Crichton asking for a number of buildings to be made ready for the imminent arrival of people fleeing the conflict with Russia.
Mr Walker, who runs The Selkirk Arms in Kirkcudbright, said: “We must be ready for the flow of refugees that is surely going to come here when nearly three million people will be displaced from their homes and cities and push their way across the borders into Poland and Romania.
