A man dressed as Santa has been fined for climbing on an iconic Glasgow statue.
The 51-year-old was nabbed after climbing on top of the city's famous Duke of Wellington statue.
He climbed on top of the "cone head" statue in the city's Royal Exchange Square on Wednesday afternoon.
Crowds were seen gathering round Santa as police urged him to get down.
A police source said: "Don't worry, it's not the real Santa.
"A throughout investigation has taken place."
Police and community wardens were also seen below the statue asking the man to get down.
Pictures of the incident were posted on social networking websites.
He taken into a police van by onlookers.
The Herald understands the man dressed as Santa is the founder of a 'Fathers 4 Justice' style group called 'Kids Have Rights 2'.
Ricky McConnell set up the organisation earlier after claiming a woman he had a brief relationship with has sought court orders preventing him seeing their son.
He was issued with a fixed penalty in relation to a breach of the peace.
Claims a banner advertising his group was confiscated have been denied.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "A 51-year-old man has been served with a fixed-penalty ticket following an incident at the Duke of Wellington statue at Royal Exchange Square."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article