Nicola Sturgeon has condemned the abuse aimed at a BBC journalist before a Tory hustings in Perth as "disgraceful".
Protesters yelled at James Cook, the BBC's Scotland editor, as they demonstrated outside the Conservative event at the town's concert hall - with calls of “traitor”, “scumbag rat” and “liar” heard.
The First Minister hit out at the independence backers who abused him. "Hurling abuse at journalists is never acceptable,” the SNP politician tweeted.
