Parties push home key messages as polls open for local elections

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon with SNP candidates and party supporters alongside the campaign bus at Holyrood, Edinburgh, while on the local election campaign trail.

SCOTLAND'S parties have been pushing home their key election messages as they head into polling day.

At Holyrood, party leaders made a last-ditch attempt to secure votes by attacking the records of their opponents at First Minister’s Questions.