A Woman in the Room

The Untold by BBC

May 9, 202227:49Society & Culture

Will a woman be elected to the all-male Western Isles Council? Catrìona Murray on the Isle of Lewis is going to try. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) is the local authority governing the Outer Hebrides o...

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