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HUNDREDS of people marched through Inverness on Saturday in a major pro-independence and anti-Brexit rally.

Organisers had been expecting up to 1000 to take part in the Standing Up For Scotland’s Citizens march which started and ended at Bught Park, taking a route over the River Ness and past Inverness Castle.

The event was designed to “highlight the fact the we have no real democracy in Scotland”, according to organisers and adopted the slogan ‘Scotland Can’.

Before the march set off, Inverness MP Drew Hendry addressed the crowd through a megaphone calling for a period of silence for the victims of the massacres at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Then he said: “Brexit? Let me ask you: what do you think of Brexit? It is absolute rubbish.

“We are marching today to say that Scotland did not vote for Brexit and

we value our EU friends and neighbours.”

One of the organisers, Judith Reid, said that Brexit could be the catalyst that leads Scotland towards independence.

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