A YOUNG man was taken to hospital after he was found in a back road outside of Glasgow. 

The alarm was raised after the young man, whose age is not known, was discovered in Mackie's Mill Road, between the Foxbar area of Paisley and neighbouring Elderslie.

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He was taken to hospital by ambulance after the find. 

A spokesman for Police Scotland said: "At around 8.10am on Tuesday, June 22, officers received a report of concern for a young man on Mackie’s Mill Road, Renfrewshire.

"An ambulance arrived and he has been taken to hospital for treatment.”