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Robust security barriers have been put in place around the fire-ravaged Glasgow School of Art ahead of demolition work expected to start later this week.

The site is being sealed off ahead of controlled work by contractors to demolish the south facade at the east end of the Charles Rennie Macintosh building.

Earlier Glasgow City Council had issued a warning that parts of the structure were in danger of sudden collapse.

Contractors will also remove a pair of distinctive wroughtiron finial roof decorations to preserve them for the future, during the demolition process.

The ornaments, consisting of floral orbs crowned with a bird, were over the central roof of the art school’s main entrance and the other over the east gable.

“Preparation for the managed dismantling of the elements of the building that have been deemed dangerous got under way, on schedule, today”

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART