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Her father was a Tram driver, and her mother a Domestic Servant . She left school at the age of 14, as was typical for Working Class children at the time, and worked as a teagirl before gaining employment as a Typist . At the age of 19 she married Norman Buchan , who was a Labour MP from 1964 till his death in 1990 for West Renfrewshire and latterly Paisley South . She attended commercial college and was a councillor on Strathclyde Regional Council from 1974 to 1979 , when she was first elected to the European Parliament (in the first elections to that institution). Whilst a MEP she sat on the European Parliament's Culture Committee as well as being involved in the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Gas Consumers Council . She is the Life President of Outright Scotland . EXTERNAL LINKS
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