Sturgeon's Highland date is 24-hour sell-out
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SCOTLAND'S Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will visit Eden Court on Monday evening as part of her tour of Scotland - but it's a sell-out gig.
The SNP confirmed that tickets for the Inverness event - and others across the country including the 12,000-seat venue at Glasgow Hydro - were snapped up within 24 hours of being advertised online.
She will be officially confirmed as the SNP leader at the party's conference later this month, following the resignation of Alex Salmond. She will also become Scotland's First Minister.
Richard Laird, deputy leader of the SNP administration at Highland Council, said: "This will be a tremendous opportunity for people across the Highlands to hear the next First Minister in person. For any politician to fill venues of the size for a speaking tour is unheard of and demonstrates how politics in Scotland has changed for the good."
Inverness Labour signalled hopes that the politician will "make clear to her supporters that as First Minister she will seek to govern inclusively in all our interests".
Mike Robb, Scottish Labour Party Candidate for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey at next May’s general election, said: "Nicola is welcome in the Highlands. What I want to hear from her, however, is not talk about another referendum, but how as First Minister she will start to use the powers she has at Holyrood to tackle issues like childcare, housing and the crisis in the NHS that really matter to ordinary people in the Highlands and across Scotland."
