Candidate - Maire Whitehead

Maire was born in Glasgow and has lived and worked in Cathcart for 30 years, as the headteacher in two local schools, Carnwardric (St Vincent's) and King's Park (St Mirrin's).

She was involved in the successful local campaign to save the Couper Institute and has been active in the campaign to protect services at theVictoria Infirmary as chair of the Friends of Victoria pressure group. This included presenting a 20,000 signature petition to the Scottish Parliament.

Maire stood for the SNP in Cathcart in 1997 and 1999 and her priorities if elected would be campaigning to retain and improve services currently at the Victoria Infirmary in particular accident and emergency, sorting out traffic congestion across the constituency, tackling crime caused by under agedrinking and drug abuse the restoration of major post office services.