Parish Council row star is from Motherwell !

It has emerged that the 62-year-old who admirably kept her cool at the much viewed Handforth Parish Council meeting was born in Draffen Street before a move to Wishaw – and that her father who is from the town worked in Ravenscraig!

Jackie whose maiden name is Davidson and who has lived in England since she was 10 said: “If I talk for long enough the Scottish will come out.

And of the row that has kept the nation entertained, she stated: “At a Scottish parish council meeting I don’t believe it would have got to that stage!”