The Guardian finds that press and broadcasting coverage of the campaign thus far is down compared with the 2001 contest as "party strategists struggle to engage the electorate."

The paper also reports that: "Labour's insistence that the election would be fought on domestic issues and that Iraq would lessen in importance also appears to be borne out by the figures."

The parties themselves, meanwhile, continue to trade claims over health and pensions.

For its part, The Independent lays out why climate change and the enviroment should be at the forefront of the campaign.

Plaid Cymru (Welsh for "the check's in the post")launched their manifesto, promising "a better Wales for everybody", even people who don't live there.

Its candidates will, the party says, continue to call for the impeachment of the prime minister over the war in Iraq.

For Mr Blair himself, according to the International Herald Tribune, the Iraq issue, which would supposedly cost [him] great slabs of credibility "looks limited as a practical concern..to what the British press used to call the chattering classes, and now refers to as the "shiraz quaffers" and their "bruschetta orthodoxies".

Only in columns about Jamie Oliver, probably....

Another distraction for former Labour MP and Respect coalition candidate George Galloway, after the Daily Telegraph won the right to appeal against Mr Galloway's £150,000 libel award against the paper.

Some interesting results from the "Who Should You Vote For" online vote profiler here.

One of the site's organisers says: "..People's perceptions of themselves as Labour voters are wrong - Labour is no longer the party of the left. It's taken the centre ground and the Lib Dems have taken the left wing."

The Irish justice minister insisted that his campaigning for an SDLP candidate in the UK general election is "in a personal capacity".

So that's ok, then.

And finally - fancy having a go designing your own Tory poster? Well, now you can...