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Scottish Labour launched their manifesto
In this evening's Reporting Scotland Jackie Bird interviewed Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson
Image source, bbcAnother day on the campaign trail, with tots, pints, manifestos, climbing and folk music.
That's all from our Holyrood Election live page on 27 April 2016.
In the latest of of our political mythbusters series we look at the importance of turnout in the election.
How many people will turn out to vote?
Scotland's voting age has been lowered for the Scottish election
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Scotland 2016 on BBC TWO Scotland tonight at 22:30.
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Our Political Correspondent Nick Eardley will hold a Facebook Q&A on the 2016 Holyrood election live tomorrow at 15:00.
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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson says: "I want to be able to take Nicola Sturgeon on and I'll be standing up every week at first minister's questions every week doing exactly that."
Ms Davidson says this is a big transition for the Scottish Conservatives with more than half the MSPs leaving or retiring, meaning more than half of the Tory MSPs will be new faces.
She says these "new faces" will be from outside politics and will bring expertise to Holyrood, raise the level of debate and really do a job for Scotland.
Jackie Bird asks if the Tories will work with the SNP and Ms Davidson says her party will put forward alternatives to make the country better.
The Scottish Conservative party leader expresses concerns about the SNP and centralisation of powers.
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Scottish Conservative Leader Ruth Davidson says people know what they are voting for in Scotland and who's going to be the strongest opposition.
Ms Davidson says people out there want a strong opposition to the SNP.
She says over the medium term her party would like to cut taxes but that they cannot go into the election saying we are going to cut taxes and have the same level of service provisions that are enjoyed now.
The Scottish Tory leader says tax cuts have to be earned and that can be done by growing the economy.
Ms Davidson says she has been on the election trail talking about how tax cuts can be earned and hers is the only party doing this.
She says the clear principle is that we should not be the highest taxed nation in the UK.
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Jackie Bird begins by saying there are very real fears from shipbuilding unions that the industy is facing very real problems.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson says she has heard the concerns from the unions and has spoken to the defence secretary and insists there is a "comprehensive guarantee" of the work that is coming to the yard in terms of the Type 26 programme and in terms of the off shore patrol vessels.
Image source, bbcScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson
Ms Davidson says the SNP have been "ramping up the rhetoric on this" and says if Scotland had been independent none of this work would have come to the Clyde.
Ruth Davidson pressed by Jackie Bird over Clyde shipyard work and whether there will be any delay says the defence secretary told her there was "absolutely" no change to the plans revealed in November.
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Here is Ruth coming up in our lift here at BBC Scotland's Pacific Quay HQ.... but not today.
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Political consensus breaks out on the campaign trail ... over golf in general and male only clubs in particular.
Image source, bbcRoyal Troon is one of two golf clubs on the rota to host the Open Championship which do not accept female members.
The Ayrshire club is staging the 145th Open this July.
It announced last year that it was carrying out a review into its all-male membership policy.
Image source, PAThe Open takes places at Troon from 10-17 July
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson says she will boycott the Open at Troon if it continues its men-only policy.
Another party leader, Scottish Labour's Kezia Dugdale says she is opposed to male only clubs and says she won't be going to Troon either.
Image source, Kezia Dugdale, twitterScottish Labour leaer Kezia Dugdale takes a swing at male only golf clubs
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said she does not think it is acceptable for anywhere in Scotland to be off limits to women.
Image source, PAThe R&A said membership policy was 'a matter for the club'
Maggie Chapman, co-convener of the Scottish Greens, says male only golf clubs "belong in the 19th century" and this shows how far there is to go on gender equality.
Willie Rennie, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats agrees and says the club should come into the 21st century and hold a vote on allowing women members.
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We will look at the Scottish Labour manifesto as it was launched today by party leader Kezia Dugdale.
Conservative leader Ruth Davidson is in the hot seat tonight as she is interviewed by Jackie Bird.
The manifesto was launched by Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale at an event in Edinburgh
And we look at one thing the five party leaders can agree on as they call on Royal Troon golf club to stop excluding women from membership, as it prepares to host the 2016 Open championship.
This week we'll bring you BBC's The Social's take on the parties manifestos.
Here Nathan takes a look at the Scottish Conservatives.
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Image source, bbcFour main party leaders hit the campaign trail
The political importance of folk music and "social prescribing" for doctors were also raised on the day Scottish Labour launched their election manifesto.
Image source, Scottish Greens/TwitterScottish Green Party co-convener Maggie Chapman meets some folk
Nuanced it was not. Subtle? Behave yourself. Then again, we are but a week and a day from polling.
This has been a fairly blunt campaign from the outset - a fundamental series of choices on tax and spending. Labour's manifesto launch, then, was of a piece.
Image source, PAMs Dugdale said the manifesto was a return to Labour's roots
Image source, bbcLabour handed out cupcakes topped some of the key messages from its manifesto
Indeed, in the ante-room prior to the launch itself, Labour even had cupcakes on display bearing bold legends relating to their core policy offer of increased taxation to fund sustained public spending, notably on education.
Labour has struggled somewhat of late in Scotland. And so it was perhaps understandable that there were references throughout Kezia Dugdale's speech to matters past.
The Scottish Greens branded the Labour party's manifesto - published just nine days before polling day - as too little, too late.
Image source, bbcScottish Green Party co-convener Patrick Harvie
Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie said: "Much of the language Labour have adopted such as the need to raise revenue for public services, the need for warm homes, a fracking ban and jobs of the future - these have all been consistent Scottish Green priorities, and what's more we have done the work to deliver progress on these issues.
"Labour are simply undermining what little credibility they have left."
Commenting on launch of Scottish Labour's manifesto, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Willie Rennie said: "With the Liberal Democrats you get so much more.
Image source, bbc"You'll get an NHS with the GPs and quality mental health services so desperately needed. You'll get a party that stands up for your civil liberties - the rights and freedoms that should be protected for everyone.
"And you'll get a new environmental push to make sure Scotland doesn't just meet its climate change targets but exceeds them."
The Scottish Conservatives say Labour has "completely lost its way" and there is a "real danger" that it is "too weak to stop the SNP" from holding a second referendum on independence.
Image source, bbcScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson