Editing Inverness (section)

===City status===
In 2001, [[City status in the United Kingdom|city status]] was granted to the "Town of Inverness", and [[letters patent]] were taken into the possession of the Highland Council by the convener of the Inverness area committee.<ref>[http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/our-communications/release.php?id=2974 ''Helen Liddell joins Inverness celebrations as Scotland's Millennium City'', Scotland Office press release 19 March 2001] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928041004/http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/our-communications/release.php?id=2974 |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1076125.stm Inverness awarded city status] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031214030053/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1076125.stm |date=14 December 2003 }}, BBC News, 18 December 2000.</ref>

These letters patent, which were sealed in March 2001 and are held by [[Inverness Museum and Art Gallery]],<ref>Ordnance Survey grid reference for Inverness Museum and Art Gallery: {{gbmappingsmall|NH666451}}</ref> create a city of Inverness, but do not refer to any defined boundaries for the city. In January 2008 a petition to matriculate [[coat of arms|armorial bearings]] for the City of Inverness was refused by [[Lord Lyon King of Arms]] on the grounds that there is no legal body (such as a council) to which arms for Inverness can be granted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Coat-of-arms-rejected-in-city-status-query-5000.htm |title=Coat of arms rejected in city status quer |work=The Inverness Courier |date=29 January 2008 |access-date=16 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009041948/http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Coat-of-arms-rejected-in-city-status-query-5000.htm |archive-date=9 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>