Tragic tot's death to prompt building safety rule changes

MINISTERS are planning to shore up safety rules following the death of a child who plunged from a balcony at his mother's workplace.

Ben McCreath was just 21 months old when be fell through a gap in a glass panel on the first floor of an office block on Princes Exchange in Earl Grey Street on St Valentine's Day 2006.

The Scottish Government yesterday revealed plans to act on the recommendation given at May's fatal accident inquiry. A

public consultation will be launched next year, while transport and infrastructure minister Stewart Stevenson will examine the inquiry sheriff's desire that all gaps in buildings should made smaller.