SCOTTISH Labour leader Kezia Dugdale cast her vote this morning at St Ninian's RC Church in Edinburgh accompanied by her partner Louise Riddell. 

This is the first time Ms Dugdale has appeared before the waiting photographers with her partner. 

Glasgow Times:

Ms Dugdale appeared optimisitc as she arrived at the polling station despite the ongoing anti-Semitism row engulfing her party.

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Earlier this week she admitted that the controversy was having a negative impact on her campaign, saying it had "unquestionably had an effect" and is being raised by voters on the doorstep.

But she insisted her party would not be overtaken by the Tories, as she hit out at leader Ruth Davidson's use of constitutional arguments during the campaign adding: "If we believed every word of the opinion polls, Ed Miliband would be prime minister, so I can spend that last few hours of this campaign talking about the opinion polls or I can put my trainers on and go out and campaign for every last vote, which is what I am going to do.

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Glasgow Times:

The latest opinion poll, conducted by Survation, found that while Labour was narrowly ahead in the constituency section of the vote, the Tories had a narrow lead in the crucial regional vote by a margin of only one per cent.

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