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Karen Adam never sought to pursue a career in elected politics but a marriage breakdown and the Scottish independence referendum would prove to be a “turning point” in her life.
The 45-year-old SNP candidate for Banff and Buchan Coast, who is an unpaid carer to her deaf father and mum to six children, had always been active as a volunteer but it was in 2014 that she joined the party and just three years later that she was elected as an Aberdeenshire councillor.