A bus company has stopped its evening services through an area of Paisley after their vehicles were targeted by vandals.

The McGill's number 757 service will no longer stop at Shortroods after 6pm after the attacks caused more than £20,000 of damage.

Groups of youths have been throwing bricks and other objects at McGill's buses for several weeks, smashing windows and endangering drivers and passengers.

The company's managing director Ralph Roberts took the decision to withdraw the service after dark following another attack at the weekend.

Passengers going to Shortroods will now have to walk from the Inchinnan Road/Love Street stop.

Mr Roberts said: "Yet again, we have had another mindless attack in the Shortroods area of Paisley.

"I now have no alternative but to withdraw our buses from the area after dark to protect our employees and passengers. I apologise for the inconvenience that this will cause."

He added: "This is a societal problem, where mindless idiots feel it is acceptable to throw bricks at people on a moving bus.

"It is high time that bus companies and bus passengers got adequate protection from the law. Too often local police portray this as vandalism - it is way beyond that.

"A thug throwing a brick at a young mother walking along the street with a pram would not be called vandalism - why is it any different because she is on a bus?"

Mr Roberts said the vandalism could affect the town's UK City of Culture 2021 bid.

"These thugs do no good to Paisley's attempt to secure the 2021 nomination and it is high time this kind of thuggery was stamped out," he said.