The word on the streets of Dundee at the weekend was ‘Yes’ as the city’s pro-independence campaigners staged a festival of events.
The second Dundee YesFest featured street campaigns, meetings, flash mobs, buskers and ended with a comedy show from writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli.
The city is at least one bookmakers’ favourite to return the highest percentage of Yes votes in Scotland.
Yes Scotland chief executive Blair Jenkins, who joined activists in the city centre on Saturday, said Dundee was “leading the way”.
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He said: “We were beginning to hear from Dundee more than a year ago about how much support was coming through for the Yes campaign. The enthusiasm here is terrific.
“Dundee will not be the only Yes city in Scotland and we’re looking confidently at September 18.”
Mr Jenkins disagreed when asked if the tone of the independence referendum campaign had turned nasty over the past week.
He said: “I think the vast majority of people on both sides who are taking part in this referendum campaign are doing so in a positive and respectful way.
“You will always get one or two people who don’t behave properly on either side but that shouldn’t take away from the vast majority of people.”
Veteran campaigner Jim Sillars spoke at one of the festival’s first events at the Steps Theatre on Friday night.
On Saturday, two flash mobs performed at the Wellgate and beside the City Churches, where around 30 people arrived to sing Dougie MacLean’s Caledonia.
Later that night, a film crew from French TV show Le Petit Journal interviewed young activists and recorded sets by Independence and One More Time at the Wee Free Pre Independence Party at Busker’s.
Hardeep Singh Kohli closed the event with an appearance at Broughty Ferry cafe Gracie’s on Sunday night.
Organisers said the event had been an opportunity for participants to express how Scotland “could flourish under independence.”