A campaign is being run to restore Perth’s city status.
Perth is known by many as a city, but it officially lost its city status in 1975, during a reorganisation of local government.
A bid has been made by Perth and Kinross Council to restore the title next year as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
One UK town is due to be given city status by Her Majesty in 2012 and Perth is among many places to have applied for this honour. Other towns competing to be a city include Luton, Milton Keynes, Reading, Guildford, Ipswich, Wrexham and Middlesbrough.
The campaign for Perth has been receiving messages of support from across the world and the UK, with many people saying they thought it was already a city.
Perth has been known as the Fair City since the publication of Sir Walter Scott’s novel, the Fair Maid of Perth in 1828.
A spokesperson for the council said: “To become a city, a town must be of significant size, and be the regional centre for administration, commerce, education, culture and health care, and it ought to be a legal centre with district and sheriff courts. It should be prosperous, with an expanding population, and a well-run council capable of providing leadership for the inhabitants of a large area.
“Perth is all of these things and more, and is now ready to resume its former position as a city and help shape the development of a modern forward-looking Scotland.”