Evening Times
Scottish Socialist leader Tommy Sheridan today challenged First Minister Jack McConnell over the nursery nurses' continuing wage dispute.
At Thursday's First Minister's Questions he will demand to know whether Mr McConnell believes "an MSP to be worth the average pay of four nursery nurses and a Cabinet Minister six nursery nurses".
Mr Sheridan said: "Politicians wax lyrical about the importance of children's education yet the case of these frontline workers is being ignored.
"The salary levels of Scots nursery nurses are pathetic, relative to the job they perform.
"It's time the First Minister intervened on their behalf."