In the news

Obviously there's quite a lot about Cardiff Central about at the moment, so this is something of a selection.

From the Western Mail, The signs in the changing landscape:

The Liberal Democrat success in Cardiff Central and Ceredigion show both the old and the new in Welsh politics. In Cardiff, Jenny Willott had taken Labour's Jon Owen Jones to the wire in 2001 before succeeding with a handsome 5,593 majority on Thursday. The success of Jenny Randerson in two Assembly elections for Cardiff Central and the capture of the county council by the Liberal Democrats last year all gave an air of inevitability to Jenny Willot's victory and show the Liberal Democrats as an urban, activist, pavement-politics, modern party.

Catherine Taylor-Dawson makes the national news in Singing candidate polls one vote from the BBC.

Willott well groomed for corridors of power from the Western Mail has a look at JW's career and experience:

Young, photogenic and capable, Ms Willott is set to become a rising star in a party whose "right on" credentials do not extend to having a credible number of female MPs.

Lib Dems thank students for support (Guardian):

Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman, said the student vote was "crucial" to the gains in Cambridge, Cardiff Central and Leeds North West.

"They were the three key areas and ones where we certainly targeted students. I've never seen such mobilisation of the student vote before. What, of course, we also managed to do was to get students to register and vote in those constituencies. That was a deliberate tactic and it paid off," he told EducationGuardian.co.uk.