Residents have been evacuated from their homes after a tenement block was deemed dangerous over fears a wall could collapse.

Around 20 people were forced to leave their properties in Govanhill in Glasgow's south side on Monday after a concerned resident raised fears about a wall inside the block.

Inspectors from Glasgow City Council were sent out to the building in Annette Street and took the decision to evacuate the block immediately.

The ground floor flats were then boarded up and a fence put in place to form an exclusion zone for the safety of the public.

Social work officials at the council set up a rest centre and arranged accommodation for the families left without a home as a result of the dangerous wall.

An email from the council's Building Control and Public Safety department to a community council member said: "With regards to 37 Annette Street my surveyors were called out on January 18 after a report that an internal wall of the tenement was in a dangerous condition.

"On inspection of the wall the building was declared dangerous and in the interest of public safety the building was vacated.

"All ground floor windows and doors have been boarded up to prevent access to the dangerous building and a perimeter fence erected to the rear of the building to form an exclusion zone.

"In relation to the families evacuated, Social Work Services attended, set up a rest centre and arranged accommodation as appropriate.

"This service has been contacted by a firm of loss adjusters who advised that they are trying to arrange for an engineer to carry out an inspection. Meanwhile a letter will be sent to the owners of the properties and their factor regarding the situation and we will await their response.

"The council are currently assessing the options for issuing a dangerous building Notice under the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 which if issued would require the owners to remove the danger either by repair or by demolition."