Editing Inverness (section)

=== Recent history ===
The [[Rose Street drill hall, Inverness|Rose Street drill hall]] was completed in around 1908.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/invernessburghdi190809inv/invernessburghdi190809inv_djvu.txt |title=Inverness Burgh Directory 1908-1909|access-date=27 June 2017}} (The 1:2500, 2nd edition, Ordnance Survey Plan, published in 1904–1905, does not show the drill hall)</ref> On 7 September 1921, the first [[Cabinet of the United Kingdom|British Cabinet]] meeting to be held outside London took place in the [[Inverness Town House]], when [[David Lloyd George]], on holiday in [[Gairloch]], called an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Ireland. The Inverness Formula composed at this meeting was the basis of the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst8924.html|title=Inverness Town House|publisher=The Gazetteer for Scotland|access-date=15 March 2021}}</ref>

Inverness has experienced rapid economic growth in the 21st century - between 1998 and 2008, Inverness and the rest of the central Highlands showed the largest growth of average economic productivity per person in Scotland and the second-greatest growth in the United Kingdom as a whole, with an increase of 86%.<ref>{{cite news|date=18 July 2011|title=BBC News – Central Highlands 'Scotland's top economic performer'|publisher=BBC|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-scotland-scotland-business-14186837|url-status=live|access-date=25 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719140732/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-scotland-scotland-business-14186837|archive-date=19 July 2011}}</ref> It was awarded the Nicholson Trophy (class 2 category) for the best town with between 20,000 and 50,000 inhabitants at [[Britain in Bloom]] contest in 1975.<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19750729/109/0007 | title = Aberdeen wins Bloom Trophy | newspaper = [[Evening Express (Scotland)|Evening Express]] | date = 29 July 1975 | access-date = 18 May 2022 | via = [[British Newspaper Archive]] | url-access=subscription }}</ref>  In 2014, a survey by a property website described Inverness as the happiest place in Scotland and the second-happiest in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-27502591 |title=Inverness happiest place in Scotland |publisher=BBC |access-date=21 May 2014 |work=BBC News |date=21 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140522200520/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-27502591 |archive-date=22 May 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> Inverness was again found to be the happiest place in Scotland by a study conducted in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13576978.Inverness_is_Scotland_s_happiest_place/ |title=Inverness is Scotland's happiest place |work=The Herald |date=6 August 2015 |access-date=16 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008100041/http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13576978.Inverness_is_Scotland_s_happiest_place/ |archive-date=8 October 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Residents of Inverness expressed their disapproval of [[Prince Andrew, Duke of York]], known by the title "Earl of Inverness", following [[sexual assault]] allegations being made against him by [[Virginia Giuffre]]. In 2019, Inverness residents started a campaign to strip him of that title, stating that "it is inappropriate that Prince Andrew is associated with our beautiful city."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/petition-points-to-exit-for-prince-andrew-186645/ |title=Petition urges Queen to strip Prince Andrew of Earl of Inverness title |work=Inverness Courier |date=21 November 2019 |access-date=31 May 2020}}</ref>