Fundraising pages set up to help the family of murdered teenager Paige Doherty have collected more than £16,000.
The body of the 15-year-old was found in bushes at the side of a main road, two days after she was reported missing.
The popular schoolgirl had been due to catch a bus to her part-time hairdressing job on Saturday morning but never arrived at the salon.
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Two fundraising pages set up on GoFundMe to help her family with funeral costs and other expenses had raised a total of £16,243 by 10pm on Wednesday.
Family friend Lynsay Smith said: "All the money raised is to help Pamela, her mum, and Andrew, her stepdad, with any funeral arrangements and anything else to ease the pain that they are going through at this time."
Gail Duncan, collecting on behalf of the freestyle disco dancing community, said: "This money will be donated along with money being raised at competitions and will be passed over to (dance school instructor) Isobel through bank transfer. This will then be taken to Paige's mum Pamela."
Detective Superintendent Duncan Sloan, of the major investigations unit, said: "Paige was a young, friendly girl with plenty of friends and for her life to be taken away so brutally at such a young age is unfathomable to everyone."
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