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SNP candidate for Aberdeen Donside Mark McDonald has urged Labour candidate Willie Young to clarify his party’s position on the Bedroom Tax following confusing comments from Labour’s shadow benefits minister. 

First Minister Alex Salmond MSP and the SNP Candidate for Aberdeen Donside Mark McDonald today visited some of the newly built council houses in Aberdeen Donside which were made possible thanks to action from the SNP Government and delivered while Mark was vice-convener of Housing at Aberdeen City Council.

Commenting on Nigel Farage’s outburst on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme, an SNP Spokesperson said:

"Anyone who heard the interview with Nigel Farage on BBC this morning would have thought he has completely lost the plot.

The No campaign failed a key test last night as Michael Moore lost a series of key arguments in a debate commentators have declared a “comfortable points victory” for Nicola Sturgeon.

· He failed to explain why 50,000 children in Scotland should face the brunt of the welfare reforms when 90% of Scottish MPs and the Scottish Parliament have voted against them

MIDLOTHIAN South Tweeddale and Lauderdale MSP Christine Grahame is today condemning ITV Borders after learning that some people living in her constituency won’t be able to watch STV’s first televised debate on Scotland’s Independence Referendum tonight.

New polling by Age Scotland’s sister charity Age UK, has revealed that 93 per cent of older people in England who own a concessionary bus pass say losing it would adversely affect their life.

The survey, carried out on behalf of the charity by research agency TNS, also found that 83 per cent of older people on lower incomes had a concessionary pass.

The publication of a tribute to the late Brian Adam MSP by Aberdeen Football Club – the team Brian supported throughout his life – has been welcomed by fellow Aberdeen fan and SNP candidate for Aberdeen Donside Mark McDonald as a “touching tribute”.

SNP Candidate for Aberdeen Donside Mark McDonald and Minister for Public Health Michael Matheson have today (Thursday) visited Middlefield Community Project, an organisation that Brian Adam MSP supported extensively throughout his time representing the area.

The SNP is highlighting a new report that reveals the UK government is failing our most vulnerable children, showing the “gap between the richest and poorest is growing.”