Murder probe launched in Scots village after elderly woman found dead in house

Police have launched a murder investigation after a 74-year-old woman was found dead inside a house in a rural village.

Officers were called to a property on The Engine Green in Fishcross, between Sauchie and Tillicoultry and around two miles north of Alloa, shortly after 7.30am on Sunday March 19. There, they found the body of the elderly woman.

A post-mortem examination was carried out and police are now treating her death as murder. A probe is underway, with a beefed-up police presence promised to reassure residents as detectives make enquiries.