Inverness’ Eastgate Shopping Centre had extra security at the weekend in the form of a Stormtrooper of the 501st UK Garrison who was helping Richmond Clements and Vicky & Ish Stonebridge promote the Hi-Ex comics convention to the locals, as well as collecting money for Hi-Ex’s nominated charity Children 1st, the Scottish version of the NSPCC.
Unsurprisingly he proved a hit with the local children and, as well as the more typical Stormtrooper poses behind kneeling captives, this ‘trooper brought the Imperial agenda to the fore by proving that in an election year you don’t have to be a democratic politician to kiss babes in arms.
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