Indyref: St Andrews family hope to have given Yes a lift

A St Andrews family were so determined to have everyone vote they decked their cars with saltires and Yes stickers and spent the day ferrying people to the polls.

Ryan Thomson, Ali Keay, Amanda Kirk, Kirsty Reid and Kirsty Black took their kids along for the drive, supporting Yes campaigners and helping people get to the ballot box.

Emphatic Yes supporters, the family talked about what they wanted after the vote.

Ryan said: “We’re a country where a lot of people live in poverty, and we aren’t a poor country, that’s just wrong isn’t it?

“I’m voting Yes to make Scotland a better country.

“We can spot spending money on things we don’t need, and start spending money on the things we do need.

“Trident is just stupid, we need a new way for our country.”

Down the road, at one of the polling stations, Jean Drysdale was already thinking about post-referendum Scotland.

She said: “I just hope everyone works together, rolls up their sleeves and forgets their differences to build a better country, whatever the result.”

Her puppy, Megan, was displaying Yes stickers and greeting voters at the Boys Brigade Hall polling station in St Andrews.