IN three days' time the public in Scotland will vote in the first stand-alone local elections since the 32 councils were formed in 1995.
It is arguably also the most crucial local government poll since then.
Whoever leads Scotland's councils after Thursday will decide on education, social care, roads, leisure facilities, refuse collection and even how we socialise and buy alcohol for the next five years.
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