One Year: In Pictures

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.

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 Shaking hands with a young supporter after the Caird Hall tour event.

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 Nicola finishes her speech at SNP National Conference after becoming Party Leader in November 2014.

 

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  With family and friends in Bute House following her nomination as First Minister in the Scottish Parliament earlier that day.

  

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 Nicola prepares for her first session at First Ministers Questions.

  

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 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.

  

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 Out meeting constituents.

  

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 Nicola takes time out of SNP Spring Conference to catch up with her niece and friends.

 

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 Visiting a care home in East Dunbartonshire.

  

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 Nicola unveils the SNP’s Families Manifesto during a visit to a soft play centre in East Kilbride.

 

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 Visiting Greenwood Academy in her home town of Dreghorn.

  

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 Launching the SNP Women’s Pledge on Buchanan Steps in Glasgow.

  

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 Nicola, joined by Martin Compston, visits JUMP Gymnastics club in Cumbernauld.

  

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 Taking questions at a businesswomen’s networking breakfast.

  

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 Crowds gather in Inverness to hear Nicola speak.

  

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 Meeting a supporter on the campaign trail in Inverness.

  

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 Met by the press at another stop on her tour of constituencies during the final week of the election campaign.

  

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 Nicola having a wee cuddle whilst meeting young mums.

  

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 Welcoming the new SNP MP’s after the Westminster election.

 

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 Congratulating the youngest SNP MP, Mhairi Black, at a historic joint meeting of SNP Parliamentary Group in Westminster, Holyrood and Europe.

 

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 Greeting the audience in Aberdeen at the SNP National Conference in October 2015.

 

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  The final selfie at SNP conference with some of the party’s candidates and by-election winners.