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Will it all end in tears?

Local income tax was jettisoned by the Salmond Government without much of a fight, but minimum pricing on alcohol is not going to go the same way.

It was a feisty Nicola Sturgeon who insisted yesterday that the argument was still there to be won and the weight of expert and public opinion was with the Government on this issue.