How to keep 'em dancing in the shopping aisles

WORRIED that city centre shops might lose custom during a £6 million improvement scheme, Highland councillors launched a “Strictly Come Shopping” campaign to get the footfall tapping on Inverness's Church Street and Union Street. Campaign banners invited shoppers to “mambo around the market, conga to the cafes and salsa to the salon”.

We don’t want to tread on anyone’s toes, but it strikes us that this Highland fling theme could be exported to other city centres.

The Tennent’s Lager can-can would get them swinging in Dundee, while Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow rings to the sound of the sword dance. Edinburgh’s favourite, of course, is the You’ll Have Had Your Tea Dance.

With the midgie season upon us, the good people of Inverary have presumably been bitten by the jitterbug. In douce Perth, the square dance holds (genteel) sway.

But we’ve noticed a gap in the Inverness retail campaign – have they never smelt the Tango o’ the Aisles?