AN award-winning broadcaster and journalist is bringing her new, sold-out film focused on Scottish independence to Greenock next weekend.

Lesley Riddoch, who will give a talk after the screening of Denmark - the State of Happiness at the Beacon, is a current columnist for The National and previous assistant editor of The Scotsman.

She has also appeared in programmes on BBC2, Channel 4, Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland and is taking her latest production on a 10-stop tour of the country's towns and cities.

Greenock Telegraph: The Beacon is one of 10 venues across Scotland showing the filmThe Beacon is one of 10 venues across Scotland showing the film (Image: Supplied)

The local event, at 2pm on Saturday, February 10, has been funded by volunteer campaigners Yes Inverclyde and the 125 tickets available were snapped up quickly.

Lesley said: “The audience is turning up for inspiration, a vision, and a picture of the kind of state we could create with hard work here in Scotland – one that supports cooperation, local initiative and a progressive welfare state.

"Politics is too often a stale slanging match, but that doesn’t mean Scots have given up on a better future.”