POLICE are helping to fit alarms in gardens sheds belonging to elderly and vulnerable residents in the Musselburgh West area.

PC Kevin Hughes has also been giving crime prevention advice on how to make sheds and summerhouses more secure in a bid to reduce acquisitive crime such as thefts.

Police say the alarms are simple to use and fit, and are effective.

Email MusselburghWest CPT@scotland.pnn.police.uk