Plan to provide warmers for vice girls criticised

Plans to spend Scottish Executive money on giving winter glovesand tights to prostitutes have been criticised.

Aberdeen City Councillors welcomed a pounds200,000 grant to helpsolve problems with prostitution.

But some expressed concerns of one of the suggested ideas.

As revealed in the Evening Express, one suggestion by the SexIndustry Forum was to spend some of the money at a drop-in clinicproviding food, and winter gloves and tights for women.

Labour councillor Neil Cooney said: "I think we all want to seemoney spent to help solve the problem of prostitution.

"But I really would …