Three children die and mother critical after fire

Three children have died and a their mother is critically ill after a fire at their flat in Paisley.

The alarm was raised at about 21:00 on Friday after the blaze broke out in the upper cottage flat in Renfrew Road.

Fiona Gibson, 12, and her brothers Alexander, eight, and Philip, five, died at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

The children’s 39-year-old mother was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley in a critical condition.

A police spokesman said: “An investigation is under way to establish the exact circumstances of this incident.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact officers.