Police have launched a probe after a Scots nursery garden was torched by callous firebugs.
Fire crews raced to Riccarton Early Childhood Centre on Jeffrey Street in Kilmarnock after the alarm was raised at around 1.20am on Friday. The blaze was started in the wooden staged area of the nursery and left the play area completely destroyed.
Footage taken from the scene showed huge flames with smoke billowing up into the sky as the fire quickly spreads. Images taken later on showed the area totally wrecked.