Police are investigating after a car was set alight in Ardrossan last night.

Officers from Police Scotland and the Fire Service attended the fire on Lawson Drive at 8.15pm last night.

The blaze is being treated as wilful.

A spokesperson for Police Scotland said: "Police and Fire Service attended a report of a car on fire outside a house in Lawson Drive, Ardrossan around 8.15pm on Monday, April 6, 2020.

"The fire was extinguished and the fire is being treated as wilful. Police enquiries are ongoing."

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