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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Convener</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Thompson_(Scottish_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Thompson (Scottish politician)">Dave Thompson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Livingstone" title="Marilyn Livingstone">Marilyn Livingstone</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alex_Rowley" title="Alex Rowley">Alex Rowley</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Scottish_Parliament" title="Member of the Scottish Parliament">Member of the Scottish Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Cowdenbeath_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Cowdenbeath (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Cowdenbeath</a><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><a href="/wiki/Dunfermline_East_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dunfermline East (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Dunfermline East</a> (1999–2011)</span></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />6 May 1999 – 9 November 2013</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Constituency established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alex_Rowley" title="Alex Rowley">Alex Rowley</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Helen Stirling Eadie</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1947-03-07</span>)</span>7 March 1947<br /><a href="/wiki/Stenhousemuir" title="Stenhousemuir">Stenhousemuir</a>, Scotland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">9 November 2013<span style="display:none">(2013-11-09)</span> (aged 66)<br /><a href="/wiki/Dunfermline" title="Dunfermline">Dunfermline</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fife" title="Fife">Fife</a>, Scotland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-operative</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Helen Stirling Eadie</b> (7 March 1947 – 9 November 2013) was a <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour" title="Scottish Labour">Scottish Labour</a> <a href="/wiki/Labour_and_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour and Co-operative">Co-operative</a> politician who served as <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Scottish_Parliament" title="Member of the Scottish Parliament">Member of the Scottish Parliament</a> (MSP) for <a 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She attended Larbert Village School, <a href="/wiki/Larbert_High_School" title="Larbert High School">Larbert High School</a> and <a href="/wiki/Forth_Valley_College" title="Forth Valley College">Falkirk Technical College</a> before going on to read trade union studies at the <a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dailyrecord-death_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dailyrecord-death-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eadie was a member of <a href="/wiki/Fife_Regional_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Fife Regional Council">Fife Regional Council</a> before being elected the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> in 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-dailyrecord-death_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dailyrecord-death-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a>, she contexted the <a href="/wiki/Roxburgh_and_Berwickshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Roxburgh and Berwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Roxburgh and Berwickshire</a> constituency as the Labour candidate. She finished in third place, but increased her party's share of the vote to 15% from 8.8% in <a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Times97_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times97-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Member_of_the_Scottish_Parliament">Member of the Scottish Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Eadie&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Member of the Scottish Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Labour was in power in the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Executive" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Executive">Scottish Executive</a>, Eadie called for an end to tolls on the <a href="/wiki/Forth_Road_Bridge" title="Forth Road Bridge">Forth Road Bridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC24853276_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC24853276-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/2003_Scottish_Parliament_election" title="2003 Scottish Parliament election">May 2003 Scottish parliament election</a>, Eadie strongly opposed the then <a href="/wiki/Second_McConnell_government" title="Second McConnell government">Labour–Liberal Democrat coalition</a>'s agreed deal to <a href="/wiki/Local_Governance_(Scotland)_Act_2004" title="Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004">introduce</a> the <a href="/wiki/Single_transferable_vote" title="Single transferable vote">single transferable vote</a> (STV) <a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">proportional system</a> for future <a href="/wiki/2007_Scottish_local_elections" title="2007 Scottish local elections">local council elections</a>. She said it was an example of "the tail wagging the dog" and "It's about one of the smallest parties in the parliament wanting to use the power that they have to try to force through issues that they want to see steamrollered through."<sup id="cite_ref-BBC24853276_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC24853276-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2006, Eadie called for <a href="/wiki/Curfews" class="mw-redirect" title="Curfews">curfews</a> against under-15 youths, after she was surrounded and trapped inside her car by a mob of youngsters who started rocking the car and throwing missiles at it.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC24853276_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC24853276-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was a member of many <a href="/wiki/Committees_of_the_Scottish_Parliament" title="Committees of the Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament committees</a>, but in June 2007 resigned two of her committee posts in protest at a <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Conservative">Tory MSP</a> being given a convener-ship of the <a href="/wiki/Equal_opportunities" class="mw-redirect" title="Equal opportunities">equal opportunities</a> committee. Eadie said at the time, the move was like "putting <a href="/wiki/Attila_the_Hun" class="mw-redirect" title="Attila the Hun">Attila the Hun</a> in charge of community care".<sup id="cite_ref-BBC24853276_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC24853276-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Eadie&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eadie was married with two daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, it emerged she was being treated for cancer at the <a href="/wiki/Queen_Margaret_Hospital" title="Queen Margaret Hospital">Queen Margaret Hospital</a>, following diagnosis at the end of October.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She died on 9 November 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC24853276_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC24853276-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Helen_Eadie&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 November</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Daily+Record&rft.atitle=Labour+MSP+Helen+Eadie+dies+of+cancer%2C+aged+66&rft.date=2013-11-09&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailyrecord.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fscottish-news%2Flabour-msp-helen-eadie-dies-2713861&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelen+Eadie" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Times97-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Times97_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><i>The Times Guide to the House of Commons May 1997</i>. 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BBC News online. 9 November 2013. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151223061123/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-24853276">Archived</a> from the original on 23 December 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Labour+MSP+Helen+Eadie+dies%2C+aged+66&rft.date=2013-11-09&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-scotland-scotland-politics-24853276&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHelen+Eadie" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/442137/Veteran-Labour-MSP-Helen-Eadie-has-died-at-66"><i>Veteran Labour MSP Helen Eadie has died at 66</i></a>. 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