Plans for a heroin “shooting gallery” have been blocked by Scotland’s top prosecutor.

The opening of a clinic where addicts could bring in their own drugs to inject under strict medical supervision had been proposed.

But Lord Advocate James Wolffe, QC, has told campaigners lobbying for the centre that “the public interest objective is a health rather than justice one” – and refused to give it the legal go-ahead.

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