A great‑grandfather told today how he felt "lucky to be alive" after being knocked to the ground when a large chunk of masonry fell from a city rooftop.

David Hay, 69, was sent sprawling when the concrete block hit him on the shoulder after falling 45ft from a tenement chimney stack.

The dazed pensioner managed to crawl to the side of the building, to avoid being hit by any more falling stonework, before concerned shop staff called an ambulance.

He was left badly bruised after the incident in Home Street near his sheltered housing complex in Tollcross.

The retired baker believes he was inches away from death as the masonry would have killed him if it hit him on the head.

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