Scottish charities have been overwhelmed with donations for the victims of the Grenfell Tower blaze.

At least 17 people died and nearly 80 people were injured in the inferno that engulfed the London high rise in the early hours of Wednesday.

The death toll is expected to rise and hundreds have been left homeless.

Several organisations that launched drives for donations in the wake of the fire have been so inundated that they have been forced to turn people away.

Glasgow the Caring City teamed up with Bullet Express and on Sunday they will ship about 20,000 bottles of water and juice, 14,000 packs of toiletries and around 1500 toilet rolls to London.

Bullet Express director David McCutcheon said: "I was driving into work and listening to the horrific news about what was happening on the radio.

"I thought 'we send trailers to London on a daily basis and it would be very easy for us to organise a truck'.

"I called Caring City and it snowballed from there; there are still people turning up today."

North Ayrshire firm Richard Healey Removals organised its own drive and Edinburgh-based Anderson Transport is collecting clothes and furniture.

Three separate online fundraising campaigns have raised a total of around £3m for victims.

Safety checks are being carried out on high rises in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee in the wake of the blaze.

Experts believe external cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower during a recent renovation may have helped spread the fire.

It emerged on Thursday that at least two other blazes at multi-storeys in Scotland had been linked to problems with cladding in the last three years.