Man dies in fire at Livingston block of flats

An elderly man has died in a house fire in West Lothian.

The emergency services were called out to the incident in Livingston just after 16:00.

The fire was in a ground-floor flat in a four-storey block in Hawk Brae, less than a mile from St John's Hospital. No one else was injured.

Police officers are still at the scene. No details have been released about the man who died.

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