Aberdeen City Council: Laing sole leader after Lumsden becomes MSP Labour councillor Jenny Laing has become the sole leader of Aberdeen City Council.
She has co-led the administration in recent years along side Conservative member Douglas Lumsden.
But Mr Lumsden has now been elected as an MSP for the north-east and stood down from his council co-leader role as a result - though he remains a councillor for the city.
Fellow Tory Ryan Houghton had then put himself forward to replace Mr Lumsden. However, he withdrew his nomination, after a backlash over posts he made on a blog several years ago on topics including the Holocaust - for which he was previously suspended by his party.