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Nicola Sturgeon continued her tour of constituencies across Scotland, and alighted from her helicopter yesterday in North-east Fife, the seat of the SNP’S Europe spokesman Stephen Gethins – who is seeking to fight off strong Lib Dem attempts to win back a seat that was previously held by Menzies Campbell. The First Minister also appeared alongside Callum Kerr, who holds the dubious distinction of representing Scotland’s most marginal constituency, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk. It’s being targeted by the Conservatives, and bookmakers rate Mr Kerr as having a 90 per cent chance of losing his seat. Ms Sturgeon came perilously close to bumping into Prime Minister Theresa May, who also visited the constituency, although she was in Kelso, a market town, to warn that the UK’S four nations needed to pull together in the wake of Brexit, not fall apart, as Mrs May claims Nicola Sturgeon desires. The Prime Minister’s visit to the constituency was no surprise given the Conservatives look set to win there on Thursday, although her first stop on her mini tour of Scotland was more eyebrow raising as she appeared at a factory in Edinburgh North and Leith, which the SNP are still favourites for. Labour in Scotland kept up their two-pronged attack on the SNP’S record in Government and their plans for a second referendum, with leader Kezia Dugdale blaming the party’s ‘broken record’ independence plans for what she said are failures of the Scottish Government in Health and Education. TODAY Kezia Dugdale will campaign with Labour’s Edinburgh South candidate Ian Murray in Morningside. Ruth Davidson will join the Tory candidate Miles Briggs in Edinburgh South West.