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The campaign coverage

Across the UK

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ will be touring the country and hearing from constituents across the nation.

Serving outlets across Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News 24, Radio Five Live, Radio 4 and the Six O'Clock News, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's official election bus will be a focal point for public debate, participation and information.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ will also listen to constituents' views on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TWO's The Election Roadshow.

Presented by Sally Magnusson, the programme will question the political decision makers and then ask viewers for their feedback.

In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ will be complementing network coverage of the General Election in their nations on TV, radio and online.

Programmes including Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Wales' Dragon's Eye and Wales Today, Newsnight Scotland and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE Northern Ireland's Let's Talk will reflect national issues, while also focusing on what matters to voters on a local level.

Through new initiatives such as Groundswell - live broadcasts of public meetings - and local Question Time style sessions in local radio stations, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ will bring local constituents face-to-face with their candidates - asking the questions they want answered, on issues like school closures, hospital beds and asylum seekers.

Election features include Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Southern Counties Radio following the opinions of a panel of floating voters and an election soap opera at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Leicester.

For Welsh speakers, S4C and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Cymru will provide full coverage, together with online services in both languages on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Wales Online and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Cymru'r Byd.

Continuous and live programming

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News 24 will be the election channel providing the fullest coverage throughout the campaign.

The rolling news channel will provide: a nightly slot with Political Editor, Andrew Marr, analysing the day's events; a weekly outside broadcast from different cities, as well as roadshow reports across the country.

There are also Westminster reports fronted by News 24 Chief Political Correspondent James Landale and his team, and a new insight series by the 13 Political Editors in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Nations and Regions.

Campaign Talk will replace Straight Talk during the election.

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Five Live

Making the most of its live facility, Five Live will invite audiences to take part in many of its election features: John Pienaar will accompany 18-year-old, first-time voters to party press conferences to gauge their response to party policies.

Five Live ballot boxes will give listeners a vote on issues they want discussed, and two young people will have the chance to report on the campaigns.

There will be regular reports from a house in a marginal seat and a Rant Line to register comment and concern.

The network will also team up with the Asian Network and 1Xtra for a series of major debates on location.

Daily TV bulletins

Breakfast News and the Six O'Clock News will report from across the country taking the regional temperature on key issues.

The One O'Clock News will use the latest in big screen technology to build an easy-to-see composite of the issues discussed, and the Ten O'Clock News will have extended bulletins each night, coming live from Westminster at key moments in the campaign.

Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman will question the three main party leaders in a series of special interviews for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE on prime time.

The programme will also be extended throughout the campaign, to include a special evening Saturday edition, featuring guest correspondents and outside broadcasts from around the country.

Political correspondent David Grossman will assess the campaigns, Political Editor Martha Kearney will report from Westminster and Michael Crick, complete with helicopter, will file his distinctive rapid reaction pieces and constituency profiles.

In addition, the award-winning Baghdad Blogger Salam Pax, who memorably covered the Iraqi elections for Newsnight, will make a film of his impressions of the UK General Election while culture correspondent Stephen Smith will spend the campaign in a student house in Nottingham to track the apathy vote.

Panorama, the current affairs flagship, will include reports on a number of election manifesto issues, including law and order.

There will be more of both Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE's This Week and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TWO's The Daily Politics.

Fronted by Andrew Neil and Daisy Sampson, The Daily Politics will broadcast live five days a week.

The programme will feature a number of location reports, including visits to a prison and a travellers' camp.

Cartoons from the award-winning Aardman Animations (Creature Comforts) will give a fresh, amusing look to voters' views on This Week.

Doing something different, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE's The Politics Show will use a narrowboat to navigate the canals to report from across the country.

CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Newsround will cover the key issues affecting children, engaging them in politics and giving them a platform for their views.

This will include a chance to vote in the Big Ballot Box; reports on the Y-Vote, the Hansard mock election for schoolchildren; as well as explaining how elections work, who the main parties are and what the results mean.