Part three of our election series takes us to Perth and Kinross, where Nicola Sturgeon hopes her SNP group could take control. There's more to the battle than national politics, as the panel of candidates point out in this one-off podcast. There are distinct rural concerns which puts housing and transport front and centre. And there's a strong indepedent influence on the authority too.

Courier political editor Derek Healey is joined by John Duff from the Conservatives; Alasdair Bailey for Labour; Willie Wilson of the Liberal Democrats; Grant Laing of the SNP and Xander Mcdaid, an independent.

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