 | 'She was an able parliamentarian and a doughty advocate for the constituents whose interests she represented robustly and eloquently.' Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie MSP, 21 st March 2006. |  |
| 'She was an able parliamentarian and a doughty advocate for the constituents whose interests she represented robustly and eloquently.' Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie MSP, 21 st March 2006. | |
HUNDREDS of mourners turned out for the funeral of Nationalist MSP Margaret Ewing yesterday. Ewing died last week at the age of 60 after suffering from breast cancer.
Fellow politicians joined her husband Fergus and her mother-in-law, the SNP veteran Winnie Ewing, for the service. George Reid, the Scottish Parliament's Presiding Officer, was among the mourners, as were SNP leader Alex Salmond and his deputy Nicola Sturgeon.
Representatives of Scotland's other main political parties were also there to pay their respects to the former teacher, with Labour education minister Peter Peacock among the congregation at St Gerardine's High Church in her home town of Lossiemouth. But in the church there were also many members of the public and constituents from the Moray area that she had served for almost 20 years as an MP and MSP.
Margaret Ewing was born a ploughman's daughter but went on to become the parliamentary leader of the SNP in Westminster.
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