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There's a fair bit of coverage of Charles Kennedy's visit to Cardiff Central were he and Jenny Willott read a book to schoolchildren. The articles then go on to cover Lib Dem education policy. Try Kennedy sticks his neck out for children (icWales) and Kennedy eyes Welsh breakthrough (ePolitix).

What the Lib Dems weren't doing yesterday was getting up to their armpits in trouble discussing immigration, Lib Dems stay out of immigration row (icWales)

He also visited Cardiff Central - the Liberal Democrats' fourth target seat -where they hope to unseat Labour's Jon Owen Jones.

The most marginal Labour/Lib Dem seat in the country, it saw a huge swing at in the 2001 election when Liberal Democrats slashed Labour's majority from almost 8,000 down to 659.

More on that broadband story from The Register in Cardiff tops broadband electoral poll which says that Cardiff Central has the best uptake of broadband of all constituencies with 37%. It also looks at how this breaks down by political allegiance in constituencies across Britain.

And finally the Education Guardian is running a series of diaries by student political activists, Campaign diary: the student canvassers, one from each party with the Lib Dem rep from Cardiff Uni. It's a good read...

Nobody cares about politics, right? Wrong. Students are pounding the streets this very minute to win your vote. Read their campaign diaries every week in Guardian Student in the run-up to the election. This week, meet Lucy, Katie and Elliot, all campaigning in tough marginal seats where student votes could matter . . .