The fight for North Lanarkshire will be one of the fiercest of the local election campaign, reports Gerry Braiden in the third of The Herald's battleground profiles.
After last May's Nationalist tidal wave in Lanarkshire, it was the clearest indication that change may be on the way in Old Labour's last stronghold. After an application to build on a small gap site in Wishaw was passed, groups of middle-class residents in the public galleries began chanting "You're out in May".
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