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Stirling Council’s late leader and longest serving councillor has been posthumously shortlisted for a top national honour. ‌

Bannockburn and Eastern Villages Ward member Margaret Brisley served as a Labour councillor for 44 years before becoming Council Leader in September 2024 - just weeks before her death in October of that year at the age of 79. ‌

She had also served as Deputy Leader since 2022 and was also a former Provost. ‌

She was often regarded as a steadying hand, having garnered a wealth of experience since first being elected to the former Stirling District Council in 1980.

Outside of politics she was described by her family as “the most wonderful mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, sister-in-law, auntie and wise sage to all her family a

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