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Earlier, participants, including families with children, waved banners and chanted, walking from the former barracks to the town centre.

Flags were flown near Cameron Barracks in October, which Highland Council said it would remove as it had a "zero-tolerance" approach to unauthorised signs, stickers and banners on its lampposts.

Yet there is one banner day on the American calendar that I have always given a wide berth.

On streets, banners with the faces of fighters killed in battle hang from lamp-posts, celebrating them as "martyrs of the resistance".

"Freedom for regime prisoners," reads a large banner carried towards the nearby Supreme Court.