Dozens of 999 call handlers are quitting the fire service as a result of control room closures.

Just seven of the 43 staff working in Aberdeen and Inverness will move to Dundee when the call centres shut later this year.

All emergency calls from the north of Scotland will be dealt with in Tayside from December 6, when the last staff leave the Inverness control room.

Of the other 36, eight call handlers will move into new roles within the fire service and 28 will take voluntary redundancy or retire.

A spokeswoman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: "We have worked with those individuals affected by the north migration to attempt to find them an alternative opportunity that meets their needs within our organisation."

The closures are part of a drive to save money by cutting the number of call centres from eight to three.

The Fire Brigades Union Scotland has raised concerns about a loss of local knowledge and increased pressure on staff as a result.

The Dumfries control room shut in 2014, followed by Thornton in Fife and Maddiston in Falkirk earlier this year. Centres in Edinburgh, Dundee and Renfrewshire will remain open.

The fire service previously estimated that switching to a single call-handling system across all three remaining control rooms would save £2.3m and cost 60 jobs.

Dundee's operations centre is being upgraded and on September 28 staff will move out of the Macalpine Road facility and into portable buildings in its grounds.

They are expected to remain there until the revamp is complete in March 2017.