THE Scottish National Party and pro-union campaign Better Together ramped up their feud about economic prospects for an independent Scotland over the weekend.

Holyrood's finance committee convener, the SNP’s Kenneth Gibson, claimed yesterday that Scottish wealth per head was over £2,300 higher than in Britain as a whole.

Meanwhile, Better Together campaign chairman Alistair Darling argued that independence could cost Scotland’s economy £8 billion and jeopardise thousands of jobs.