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Wales is the subject of a piece by the BBC's Welsh correspondent in Who can count on the Welsh vote? which includes some, if not criticism, then certainly highlighting of the fact that people can't seem to differentiate between Assembly and Westminster issues.

Although whether to introduce top-up fees for higher education in Wales will be a decision for the Welsh Assembly, it has become a major issue in the marginal Westminster constituency of Cardiff Central.

Here, the high student population means the sitting Labour MP, Jon Owen Jones, is staring down the barrel of a gun even though even if he was returned to Westminster there is little he could actually do about tuition fees in Welsh universities.

That subtlety seems to matter little to students like John Barnes, an English Literature undergraduate at Cardiff University.

"One of the major issues is student fees. It affects me directly and I'm strongly opposed to them."

And later today... Raja Gul Raiz, Jenny Willott and Catherine Taylor-Dawson electoral communication scans and pictures from out and about in Cardiff Central.