
A teenage boy has become the 12th person to die after getting into difficulty in water amid hot weather in recent days.
Police were called to a report of concern for a person at Bracklinn Falls near Callander in Stirlingshire at around 6.45pm on Thursday.
The body of the 16-year-old was recovered from the water.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “The death is not being treated as suspicious and a report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.”
Bracklinn Falls is situated in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park.
It is the latest death in a water-related incident over the course of the recent heatwave.
There have been deaths in places including South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Cornwall, Hampshire, Warwickshire, Cheshire, Pembrokeshire, Lincolnshire and Lancashire.





