THE Lord Provost of Glasgow is standing down after billing the taxpayer for shoes, underwear and pampering sessions during an £8,000 spending spree, according to reports.

Eva Bolander claimed expenses for items including 23 pairs of shoes, haircuts worth £751 and a £152 bill for underwear.

1 Ms Bolander vowed to pay back some of the cost Credit: Keith Campbell - The Sun Glasgow

The list of expenses also contained £358 glasses and pampering sessions that included having her toenails painted.

And Ms Bolander also billed the public for a £200 hat from designer William Chambers Millinery.

The Lord Provost earlier issued an apology and vowed to pay back some of the cost after a furious backlash and calls to resign over the receipts.

In a letter to councillors, Ms Bolander said: “In submitting claims, I have always tried to ask myself the question, ‘would I require this if I were not Lord Provost?’ Each has been made in good faith and scrupulously accounted for, within the rules.

“Although the spending incurred was within the rules, on reflection there are items which I should not have chosen to reclaim.

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“I am sorry about that and I am in discussion with financial services to come to an arrangement to repay the relevant expenditure.”

Now, it is understood she has agreed to quit at a council meeting.

She is expected to step down at the monthly meeting of the full council on Thursday.

A council source told the Evening Times: "She accepted she had made a misjudgment in claiming for things that, although it was within the rules, she should not have."

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