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Cash-starved council spends £15,000 on lord provost portrait

A cash-strapped local authority is under fire over plans to spend around £15,000 on a lavish painting of the city's lord provost.

Glasgow lord provost Bob Winter is set to have his portrait done by artist Anne Mackintosh, who has previously painted Margaret Thatcher among others
Glasgow lord provost Bob Winter is set to have his portrait done by artist Anne Mackintosh, who has previously painted Margaret Thatcher among others

Glasgow City Council, which is having to make savings of around £42 million in the next financial year, has commissioned the portrait from an artist used by royalty and the Tory Party.

The decision comes in spite of the council in Edinburgh reversing a plan to fund a painting of its own provost.