Thirty industrial-sized bread baskets were found dumped in a sewer by engineers.

The discovery was made in Cardonald, Glasgow, last week as Scottish Water staff were carrying out checks at a nearby cemetery.

They spent three hours removing the baskets and other debris from the drain.

Scottish Water warned it could have caused serious flooding problems and called it an "extreme example" of inappropriate items being put in the waste water system.

Maintenance operative Andrew Szolwski said: "Why anyone would think it was a good idea to throw these baskets down a sewer is beyond me.

"It's not clever and it could have caused serious problems with flooding.

"It took us around three hours to pull the baskets free, time which would have been much better spent elsewhere had the individual or individuals responsible thought about the consequences of their actions and not done this."

Everyday household items such as wipes and cotton buds regularly cause blockages across Scotland's water network.

However, the number of blockages in the sewer network has fallen by around 12% from almost 40,000 in 2013, to 35,000 by the end of October 2017.

Scottish Water says there are still almost 100 per day across Scotland and about 80% are caused by people putting the wrong things in their sinks and toilets.