The survey was carried out on 1,068 people between March 16 and 23.

Stefan Hoggan quit as a candidate and party member after a complaint was made against him.

Scottish Labour said the policy would only involve additional funding for councils already running the clubs.

The First Minister said it was only the SNP which had ‘a plan to deliver’ on the NHS.

The Tory leader touted her party’s new campaign to ‘get Britain drilling’ in the hopes of increasing energy security.

Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay said he could never back an SNP administration.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has pledged to create a new ferries agency.

The First Minister has said he would request powers over energy if re-elected.

The system would be funded by scrapping road-building projects, the party said.

The First Minister will visit the north-east of Scotland on Monday.

Anas Sarwar will visit Stornoway on Monday, as he warned the ‘SNP’s ferry fiasco is a symbol of their incompetence and waste’.

Jordan Linden was convicted of 10 separate offences on Thursday, including five sexual assaults.

One of Jordan Linden’s victims has claimed the party failed to deal with complaints about his conduct.

The Scottish Government failed to publish an energy strategy before the end of the parliamentary term this week.

Jordan Linden, the ex-leader of North Lanarkshire Council, was convicted of five sex assaults and five other offences on Thursday.

He said voters face a choice of “a permanent cost-of-living crisis under Westminster or lower energy bills with independence’.

Russell Findlay launched his party’s campaign in Edinburgh on Thursday.

The proposals have been turned down by Westminster over national security fears about Chinese firm Ming Yang.

Danish firm Vestas has said it would build components for turbines at such a plant.

The former first minister was cleared of any wrongdoing and she is now stepping down as an MSP.