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| The race for votes is continuing this weekend with less than two weeks before the country decides the make-up of the next Scottish Parliament. | The race for votes is continuing this weekend with less than two weeks before the country decides the make-up of the next Scottish Parliament. |
| Chancellor Gordon Brown joined Jack McConnell in Edinburgh to highlight Labour's policies for families. | |
| The SNP unveiled a poster campaign backing Alex Salmond as first minister. | |
| The Lib Dems launched plans to breathe new life into small towns while the Tories pushed for greater powers for local communities. | |
| Mr Brown and Mr McConnell were highlighting the party's pledges postcard at a play park in Edinburgh's Meadows. | |
| The Chancellor said the election campaign had reached a moment of truth. | |
| If they claim that they've got plans for an independent Scotland, why don't they give us the figures - give us the facts and tell the truth Chancellor Gordon Brown | |
| He claimed that voters asking tough questions about SNP policies were now finding the Nationalists wanting. | |
| "People are asking how do the SNP fund their programme - they're asking how can they be so wrong about their calculations on oil revenues," he said. | |
| "If they claim that they've got plans for an independent Scotland, why don't they give us the figures - give us the facts and tell the truth." | |
| An SNP spokesman hit back at Mr Brown's comments saying his claims about oil revenues were false. | |
| Earlier, Mr McConnell urged voters not to use the elections to give "a kicking" to outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair. | |
| The Labour pledges card will be distributed throughout the country in the coming week. | |
| It includes plans for increasing modern apprenticeships to 50,000 a year, expanding free school meals to 100,000 extra children and 250 new and rebuilt schools. | |
| 'Better future' | |
| SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon also highlighted the party's policies for young people at a campaign event in Glasgow. | |
| She said her party in government would replace student loans with grants and bring an end to the back-end tuition fees by scrapping the graduate endowment fee. | |
| The SNP also claims it would introduce first time buyers' grants of £2,000 to help those wanting to buy a home. | |
| Ms Sturgeon said: "Each year 25,000 of our most talented young people leave Scotland to seek a better future elsewhere. | |
| "I want to implement a range of policies which will allow more of them to feel they can stay and be successful here in Scotland." |