A college campus has been 'evacuated' after a 'gas leak' affected an entire town.

New College Lanarkshire has closed its Cumbernauld college campus due to a smell of gas being identified on Monday morning.

Reports on social media claim that the building was evacuated due to the incident, and the college confirmed that they would be closed for the rest of the day. 

The college has confirmed that the campus will reopen as usual tomorrow.

A statement reads: "Please note that our Cumbernauld Campus will be closed for the remainder of the day due to a gas leak being identified.

"All classes have been cancelled for the day and an update regarding arrangements for tomorrow will be issued later this afternoon.

"We apologise for any inconvenience caused."

Concerned Cumbernauld residents took to social media to report that they could smell gas "all over" the town. 

One wrote: "It's bad, my house is stinking of it, had to shut all my windows."

Another said: "Seems to be all over Cumbernauld. I'm South Carbrain and can smell it."

Fire crews confirmed that they were called to the scene after multiple reports told of a gas leak in the area at Wardpark industrial estate. 

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “We were alerted at 10.50am on Monday, November 28 to reports of a gas leak at Wardpark Industrial Estate, Cumbernauld.

“Operations Control mobilised one fire appliance and crews are currently in attendance at the scene."

Gas company SGN have confirmed that they do not believe the smell to have originated from a gas leak, but they are working to resolve the issue.

Company spokesperson Dan Brown said: "We’ve received a number of calls regarding a smell in the air, initially in the Cumbernauld area this morning, and subsequently in the Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch areas.

'We believe we have located the source of the smell and are working with the third party to resolve the issue on their site.

"There’s nothing so far to suggest the smell came from our gas network.

"We don’t believe there is a safety risk as there have been no recorded gas readings.

"We will continue to visit all jobs, but due to the extremely high volume of reports this may take longer than usual.

"However, we would always recommend that anyone who can smell gas should call the National Gas Emergency number on 0800 111 999."