A car which allegedly struck two police officers in what prosecutors say was an attempted murder had 'cloned' number plates, a court has heard.

Jurors were told how detectives checked the registration plate of a burnt out Nissan Qashqai hours after PC Deborah Lawson and PC Robert Fitzsimmons suffered injuries in Banner Drive, Glasgow.

The plate was registered to a woman from Renfrew who owned the same kind of vehicle, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.

On Friday, detective constable Derick Lunnan, 39, told the court that investigators concluded that somebody had copied the woman's registration.

The court heard officers made the discovery hours after the alleged attack on October 23, 2016.

He said the copied registration had been attached to the Qashqai which had been set alight in a street less than two miles from where PCs Lawson and Fitzsimmons came under assault.

When prosecution lawyer Tim Niven Smith asked DC Lunnan what the name given to the practice of copying registrations is, the officer replied: "I personally would refer to it as cloned plates."

The police officer was giving evidence on the fifth day of proceedings against David McLean, 31, and Ryan Gilmour, 25. The two men, who come from the Glasgow area, have pleaded not guilty to a number of charges.

Prosecutors allege that both McLean and Gilmour attempted to murder PC Lawson and PC Fitzsimmons by reversing a Nissan Qashqai towards them and repeatedly hitting them with the vehicle in October last year.

At the time of the incident, the Crown alleges the vehicle had false number plates attached to the SUV.

The pair also deny further charges, including wilfully setting fire to the vehicle and attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The trial, before judge Lord Summers, continues on Monday.