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It comes after a spate of wild blazes earlier this month - including one which damaged a decade's worth of conservation work on the Isle of Arran.

The court heard Sahroudi, 41, and Brown, 48, did "acquire, use and possess" a total of £5,719,244 of "criminal property" paid by NHS Lothian, NHS Grampian, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as well as NHS Ayrshire and Arran.

Prosecutors further said smaller "inducements" were given to an IT official who worked at both NHS Lanarkshire and Greater Glasgow and Clyde health boards as well as a woman with NHS Ayrshire and Arran.

Unite said the 4% pay offer to its 500 members - operating out of depots in Ayr, Arran, Ardrossan, Dumfries, Kilmarnock and Stranraer - was "unacceptable".

For years, conservationists have been working to bring native trees back to the spectacular Glen Rosa on the Isle of Arran.