Edinburgh suffragist statue put on hold after bitter row over sculptor

Anger erupts after open contest to design statue of Elsie Inglis scrapped and royal sculptor commissioned

Proposals to honour one of Edinburgh's most famous feminists with a statue on the Royal Mile have been put on hold after a bitter row about the choice of sculptor.

Campaigners planned to erect a bronze statue to Dr Elsie Inglis, a suffragist and medical pioneer who established hospitals for poor women and children in Edinburgh, near the site of a maternity hospital she founded.