Residents have demanded improvements to living conditions in the Govanhill area of Glasgow as a charity said it was "unbelievable" Scotland still had such poor housing.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the MSP for the area, was confronted by angry residents last weekend who invited her to see the squalid conditions of some of their streets.

The Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council have ploughed £10m into a fund to improve properties in Govanhill but locals say conditions are still unbearable.

Residents told STV the area needed urgent action to clear up back streets, with rats and other vermin breeding among the piles of rubbish.

Local householder Joe Beaver said: "We're only five minutes away from Hampden. Is this really Glasgow in the 21st century?"

After being shown some of the conditions, Graeme Brown, director of housing charity Shelter Scotland, said it was clear far more needed to be done.

He said: "It's unbelievable that we still have housing that bad. Scotland has done a great deal to improve its housing but clearly we have more still to be done."

The First Minister said she had been working with Glasgow City Council to improve the situation.

She said: "I take the view that it is less productive to talk about who's responsible and more productive to talk about how me as an MSP, the local councillors, the Scottish Government, the police work together to resolve these problems.

"These are issues I have been working on for a long time as MSP and will continue to do so. We recently passed legislation to give Glasgow City Council extra powers for enforcement."