No Easy Answers As City's Women Put the First Minister in the Firing Line ; Tough Talking Forget Holyrood, Glasgow's Feisty Female Audience Asks Jack the Hard Questions More Than 130 Women Grilled First Minister Jack Mcconnell Last Night On a Wide Range of Burning Issues. Ann Fotheringham Reports On the Ground-Breaking Evening Times' Event - Glasgow's Women Ask Jack

Evening Times › January 24, 2006

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IN HER introduction to the first female-only question and answer session with the First Minister, Glasgow's Lord Provost Liz Cameron said the city's women were famous for being "feisty, intellectual and rigorous in the way they conduct their business".

And on the evidence of last night's Glasgow's Women Ask Jack, she was not wrong.

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No Easy Answers As City's Women Put the First Minister in the Firing Line ; Tough Talking Forget Holyrood, Glasgow's Feisty Female Audience Asks Jack the Hard Questions More Than 130 Women Grilled First Minister Jack Mcconnell Last Night On a Wide Range of Burning Issues. Ann Fotheringham Reports On the Ground-Breaking Evening Times' Event - Glasgow's Women Ask Jack

In the stunning setting of the Evening Times Picture This exhibition at the Mitchell Library, surrounded by images of the city's grand past, Jack McConnell was grilled by the women who represent its future.

More than 100 schoolgirls, mothers, carers, businesswomen and community workers from all over Glas...

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