The leader of Falkirk Council has paid tribute to the "incredible achievements" of Scotland's longest-serving First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, who resigned earlier today (Wednesday).
In the wake of the news, SNP Councillor Cecil Meiklejohn has also called for all parties to take the opportunity to try to "de-polarise public debate" and pledged that, as leader of Falkirk Council and the SNP locally she would seek to "reach out across the divide".
In her resignation speech, Ms Sturgeon said while being First Minister had been the "privilege of my life" she had come to feel that the time was right for her to step down from a job where you are "never off duty" and where there is "virtually no privacy".
