One Year: In Pictures
by This week marks a year since Nicola Sturgeon became First Minister of Scotland. See some of her favourite moments of the last 12 months below.
Shaking hands with a young supporter after the Caird Hall tour event.
Nicola finishes her speech at SNP National Conference after becoming Party Leader in November 2014.
With family and friends in Bute House following her nomination as First Minister in the Scottish Parliament earlier that day.
Nicola prepares for her first session at First Ministers Questions.
A dramatic end to her first week as FM, Nicola takes to the Hydro stage in front of 12,000 people, at the largest indoor political event in the UK.
Out meeting constituents.
Nicola takes time out of SNP Spring Conference to catch up with her niece and friends.
Visiting a care home in East Dunbartonshire.
Nicola unveils the SNP’s Families Manifesto during a visit to a soft play centre in East Kilbride.
Visiting Greenwood Academy in her home town of Dreghorn.
Launching the SNP Women’s Pledge on Buchanan Steps in Glasgow.
Nicola, joined by Martin Compston, visits JUMP Gymnastics club in Cumbernauld.
Taking questions at a businesswomen’s networking breakfast.
Crowds gather in Inverness to hear Nicola speak.
Meeting a supporter on the campaign trail in Inverness.
Met by the press at another stop on her tour of constituencies during the final week of the election campaign.
Nicola having a wee cuddle whilst meeting young mums.
Welcoming the new SNP MP’s after the Westminster election.
Congratulating the youngest SNP MP, Mhairi Black, at a historic joint meeting of SNP Parliamentary Group in Westminster, Holyrood and Europe.
Greeting the audience in Aberdeen at the SNP National Conference in October 2015.
The final selfie at SNP conference with some of the party’s candidates and by-election winners.