TWO CHILDREN have been found dead in a car parked at a beauty spot to the north of Glasgow. A man was taken from the scene to a hospital in the city.

The bodies of the two-year-old and six-year-old boys were found late yesterday afternoon. Strathclyde Police say they are treating the deaths as suspicious.

The Scottish Ambulance Service later confirmed that a man had been taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. They did not release any further details.

The car was discovered at Clachan of Campsie in Crow Road, Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire.

Inspector Jan Connolly said: "Police are investigating the suspicious deaths of two children aged two and six years old.

They were found this evening within a parked car. Police are following a positive line of inquiry."

Brian Scott, a barman working at the nearby Campsie Golf Club, said that golfers had been distraught when they learned two young boys had been found.

He said that two ambulances had gone up Crow Road shortly after 3pm. An hour later they saw one coming racing back down the road with a police escort and blue light flashing.

A second ambulance followed later, but at a more steady pace and without an escort.

"We knew then that something terribly tragic had happened," he added Scott said talk around the club was that a father had gone to the beauty spot with his two sons. The three were not thought to be local to Lennoxtown.

Last night police would not confirm when or where the bodies had been found.

Officers blocked the B822 Crow Road to all traffic heading north out of Lennoxtown. A recovery van was allowed through the roadblock at 10.50pm.