BBC NEWS | Scotland | Independence 'convention' call: "Mr Sheridan told the meeting of about 60 activists: 'Our country isn't going to sleepwalk towards independence.

'Our country is going to have to be inspired.

'There is going to have to be a vision for the type of independent Scotland we have in our hearts and our heads.

'And we are going to have to march our citizens proudly towards the vision of a small nation that becomes a beacon of social justice across the world.' "