Tributes to Holyrood veteran Sir George, 86

FORMER Holyrood presiding officer Sir George Reid has died at the age of 86, his family have announced.

- By Craig Paton

He died in the early hours of Tuesday at Strathcarron Hospice near Denny, just a few miles from where he was born in Clackmannanshire.

Sir George began his career as a journalist and was elected as an SNP MP, for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire, in 1974.

He lost the seat, narrowly, at the 1979 election.