We re at holyrood in edinburgh on the final day of campaigning in a series of elections across great britain. Only northern ireland wont be going to the polls. The voting tomorrow represents the biggest set of local and national elections in almost half a century. Political parties here in scotland are making their final push ahead of elections to the holyrood parliament. Voters will elect 129 msps, with the campaigning this year looking a little different. And polling day and the count will also be unusual, as lorna gordon explains. Getting ready for tomorrow s vote, constructing booths, cleaning surfaces. Pandemic procedures mean polling stations like this one in glasgow will be a little different this time round. There will be screens to protect staff and voters. That will have to go at the front. Familiar one way systems and the number of people in a polling station at any one time will be limited. Outside the polling stations we will also have marshals, who will welcome voters to
talking of which, that travel list. Don t go to istanbul, fans of chelsea and manchester city are told, and they re now calling on uefa to move the champions league final to wembley after the uk government added turkey to its travel red list. Weatherwise, in the company of low pressure introducing a settled story unsettled story but those temperatures are rising. I will return with all of the details. It s saturday the eighth of may. Our top story: the snp s hopes of an outright majority in the scottish parliament still lie in the balance today. With votes still being counted, the party needs another 26 seats to win total control, but two key targets of dumbarton and eastwood have been missed. With all the details, here s our scotland editor sarah smith. Angus robertson, scottish national party, 16,276. Angus robertson, scottish national party. 16. 276. party, 16,276. Every seat that has chanced party, 16,276. Every seat that has changed hands party, 16,276. Every seat that h
welcome back to our special programme on that scottish leaders debate. that has lasted an hour and covered a lot of the issues that we thought would dominate the debate. the first was how scotland and best recover from the pandemic. the first was how scotland and best recoverfrom the pandemic. what the first was how scotland and best recover from the pandemic. what an independence referendum distract and hinder efforts to rebuild the nation part of the economy, and how will the nhs clear its waiting list and treat serious diseases like cancer? douglas ross of the scottish conservatives that are his party priorities with jobs and economic recovery. he pledged investment in a projector and promised funding for full fibre broadband. the s&p s nicola sturgeon outlined her plan to continue to suppress covid and support businesses in their recovery from the pandemic. when the commitment to build 100,000 affordable homes. she defended her support for a second referendum and a desire
to fund my university experience and pay my rent and stuff. and we made it so covid safe that i did feel like it was a safe place to be in, and now it sjust frustrating that that seems to be forgotten about and they re going to be the last places to open. and it s sad for the city because it s the main part of the city. the prime ministerjust needs to remember when he was our age and what he was doing at that time and that is a huge part of our lives and we don t have that anymore. and we re missing out. it s not like we can go back and, like, when we re 24 be like, 0h, let s pretend we re at uni again. this is it. i guess for us uni students, - it doesn t really make that much difference because we might be i allowed to go out a bit more, like in groups, but we do that anyway because we live as a group. - down the river in byker, rows and rows of houses where families have stayed indoors, relatives not seeing each other and children missing theirfriends. today s road map g