Perth - where I've lived for almost four and a half decades - is an ancient Royal Burgh in Central Scotland. Renowned locally, nationally and internationally, as the 'Fair City', it was a former Scottish Capital during mediaeval times. Indeed, throughout the ensuing centuries - and in the minds of its countless generations of inhabitants since - Perth ranked as second in civic importance only to Edinburgh.

Until 1975, that is ... when, Local Government Reorganisation north of the Border, led to Perth being stripped of city status.

Now, in the year of HM the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, a long, hard-fought battle has been won ... and 'Saint John's Toun' can reclaim its rightful heritage - steeped in the Annals of Scotland - as the City of Perth.