The Herald reports:

The SNP is re-running its Holyrood candidate selection in Renfrewshire South after the first choice was suspended over alleged homophobic comments about a government minister.

Councillor Andy Doig resigned as the candidate in the marginal Labour seat on Thursday, just a week after winning a five-way fight to be the SNP’s contender next May…

The former depute leader of the SNP on Renfrewshire Council, Doig now faces a party disciplinary hearing at which he hopes to have his membership restored. He fought the Westminster seat of Paisley and Renfrewshire South in 2005 and 2010, and came 2,587 votes behind Labour’s Hugh Henry in Renfrewshire South in 2011.