{"id":49322,"date":"2026-03-25T23:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/towns-talking-points-ahead-of-election\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:02:47","slug":"towns-talking-points-ahead-of-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/towns-talking-points-ahead-of-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Towns&#8217; talking points ahead of election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The countdown is on to <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/topics\/c93w7yyex7pt\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 eFLwgv\">the 2026 Scottish elections<\/a> &#8211; voters will be heading to the polls in just six weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">With a third of MSPs not seeking re-election, it will be a very different parliament to the last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The BBC&#8217;s Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon went to the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse constituency to find out some of the key issues on voters&#8217; minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\"><i id=\"filmed-and-edited-by-morgan-spence\" class=\"sc-4029fe79-0 hTEgDj\">Filmed and edited by Morgan Spence<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\"><i id=\"produced-by-paul-ward\" class=\"sc-4029fe79-0 hTEgDj\">Produced by Paul Ward<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c78r5ky49nxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown is on to the 2026 Scottish elections &#8211; voters will be heading to the polls in just six weeks. With a third of MSPs not seeking re-election, it will be a very different parliament to the last. The BBC&#8217;s Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon went to the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse constituency to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[222,149,1183,7177,7626],"class_list":["post-49322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-ahead","tag-election","tag-points","tag-talking","tag-towns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49324,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49322\/revisions\/49324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}