A 17-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a vandalism attack on the final resting place of Scotland's national bard.

It follows a police investigation into graffiti at the Burns Mausoleum, where Robert Burns lies, and on headstones in St Michaels Church Yard in Dumfries at the weekend. The incident caused shock and anger in the community, with the minister, the Reverend Maurice Bond describing it as a "pointless vandalism."

Burns spent the last years of his life in the Dumfries area, where he died of rheumatic fever in 1796. He was buried in the churchyard, but in 1815 his body was transferred to the mausoleum A report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal.