North Lanarkshire councillors paid tribute to Winnie Ewing at their scheduled meeting just hours after the announcement of the respected politician’s death.
The former Hamilton MP, who won the constituency seat for the SNP in a fabled by-election triumph in 1967, died on Wednesday aged 93.
Her stellar political career saw her serve at Westminster, in the European Parliament, as SNP president and as one of the first MSPs in the new Scottish Parliament – whose inaugural meeting she convened in 1999.
