Its election pledges include:

• Free eye and dental checks for all

• Cut waiting times by recruiting 2,000 extra nurses and 300 more consultant doctors

• Spend more of the Scottish budget on health promotion and tackle bed blocking by cutting hospital acquired infections and providing more convalescence care

• Measures to recruit and retain GPs, dentists and other health professionals

• Pay off the student loans of nurses who stay in the NHS

• Ban the sponsorship of school canteens and the marketing of fizzy drinks in schools

• Free digital hearing aids to all who need them

• Develop and implement a national sexual health strategy

• Recruit 3,000 extra teachers to reduce class sizes

• Abolish 5-14 national school tests

• Raise the school starting age to six to give children a transitional year after nursery

• Build and renovate hundreds of schools

• Allow 14-year-olds to enter vocational college courses

• Increase police numbers by recruiting 3,500 officers and 500 more special constables

• Roll out specialist drug courts across Scotland

• Commission research on the effectiveness of sentences handed down by the courts

• Set up a �20m youth crime reduction fund to support measures to turn youngsters away from crime

• Abolish Skye Bridge tolls

• Start work on the Borders railway, Edinburgh trams and the Aberdeen cross-rail

• Build rail links to Edinburgh and Glasgow airports

• Create a new Highlands and Islands air network

• Extend off-peak bus travel for old people

• More action to get freight off roads

• Ensure the work of Scottish Enterprise is focused on business development and skills training

• Encourage universities and colleges to address professional skills shortages

• Ensure all schools teach enterprise classes to encourage innovation and risk-taking

• Transport improvements to help business

• Create up to 5,000 jobs by developing environmental technologies

• Boost tourism by marking the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' death by making 2009 a Scottish `homecoming year'

• Merge the higher and further education funding councils

• Attract more GPs, dentists and other health workers to rural areas

• Promote more organic farming in Scotland

• Support the Scottish food and drink industries

• Give local communities a stake in renewable energy projects

• Tackle fuel poverty by expanding the free central heating scheme

• Protect local post offices and pharmacies

• Reinvigorate town centres by supporting businesses, preserving attractive areas and reforming the planning process

• Develop greener energy, transport and procurement policies for the health service

• New targets for local councils to recycle 25% of waste by 2006 and 55% by 2020

• Teach schoolchildren more about environmental awareness

• Review current environmental, pollution and planning laws and possibly introduce environment courts

• Make all public buildings incorporate solar power or other forms of renewable energy

• Oppose plans for any new nuclear power stations in Scotland.