A coastal community in the Scottish Borders is counting the cost of online shopping after a courier company struggled to deliver parcels in the run up to Christmas.

As dawn broke, the first officers ran up to the house, but were instantly thwarted - blocked by a wall of soldiers protecting the compound.

“I used to get moms running up to me in the street every day: ‘Thank God for this.

“I was tired. I could not run up and down the court,” Barker laughed as she recalled.

“When I got there, there was already crime scene tape up and forensics and all kinds of stuff. And I ran up to the officers like, ‘Hey, my daughter’s in there.