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The five party leaders who are the challengers in next month's General Election will go head-to-head later - with the absent David Cameron and Nick Clegg hitting the campaign trail instead.

Ed Miliband, Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Natalie Bennett (Green Party), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) and Nigel Farage (UKIP) will square up for another televised debate.

They drew lots to decide where they will be standing on the night and the order they will be speaking.

Mr Miliband will be positioned to the far left next to Ms Wood and Mr Farage to the far right next to Ms Sturgeon with Ms Bennett in the middle of the group.

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The 90-minute programme will be shown on BBC1 from 8pm.

The leaders will be allowed to make short opening statements at the beginning of the programme, starting with Leanne Wood.

Then David Dimbleby will invite five questions from the audience of 200 voters.

Each leader will have one minute to get across their party's stance on each subject before 10 minutes of free debate.

Finally there will be closing statements with the last word going to Nigel Farage.

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Karen Buckley Search: Police Find Remains

Human remains have been found on a farm north of Glasgow by officers searching for missing student Karen Buckley.

Formal identification has yet to take place but police believe they may be those of the missing 24-year-old.

Her relatives have been informed of the discovery on the outskirts of Milngavie.

Ms Buckley was last seen in the early hours of Sunday morning after a night out in Glasgow.

A 21-year-old man, believed to be Alexander Pacteau, was earlier detained and police said they were "following a definite line of enquiry".

The student, from Cork in Ireland, vanished in the early hours of Sunday after spending the night with friends at Glasgow's Sanctuary nightclub.

She told them at around 1am she was going to the toilet but failed to return and left her jacket behind.

CCTV spotted her leaving the club with Mr Pacteau, who then drove her to his flat two miles away in Dorchester Avenue.

Detective Superintendent Jim Kerr said she did not appear to be under any duress when she left, with "no signs of a struggle or reluctance on her part".

Mr Pacteau told officers Ms Buckley left his property at 4am after they had had consensual sex.

The student began an occupational therapy degree at Glasgow Caledonian University in February and was previously a nurse at the Princess Alexandria hospital in Harlow, Essex.

Her parents flew from Cork to help with the search and told a news conference they were "desperate" for help.

"We just want Karen home safely, we are desperate. She is our only daughter, we love her dearly," said her mother Marian.

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The search for the missing student shifted to the area around High Craigton Farm, to the north of the city, on Wednesday

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Education Protected In Lib Dem Manifesto

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By Joey Jones, Deputy Political Editor

Nick Clegg has pledged to protect spending on education from ages two to 19 as a central part of the Liberal Democrat manifesto.

The Lib Dem leader says his party, unlike Labour or the Conservatives, will maintain funding for nurseries, schools and further education institutions in real terms and per pupil.

The pledge is nevertheless dependent on an economic plan that - like that of their coalition partners the Conservatives - depends on balancing the country's books by 2017-18.

Beyond that point, the party says it will allow public spending to rise in line with growth which, on current projections, would allow substantial investment in education and health.

On the NHS, the Lib Dems have pledged to meet what is described as a potential funding shortfall of £8bn per year by the end of the next parliament.

The Lib Dems are focussing on tried and tested policy ideas for their manifesto.

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Alongside investment in public services is a continued focus on increasing the personal tax allowance, a policy that was on the front of the party's 2010 manifesto and found such great favour with the Conservatives that it is now one of their own most-trumpeted accomplishments.

The 2010 manifesto, which in several key areas laid the foundations for five years of coalition government, was nevertheless scarred by a commitment to scrapping tuition fees which, when subsequently abandoned, destroyed the party's currency with a substantial number of supporters.

As a result, one can expect journalists and Lib Dem activists alike to be scouring the fine print to ensure there are no unwelcome surprises in their latest offering.

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UKIP Manifesto Promises Voters 'Real Change'

By Robert Nisbet, Sky News Correspondent

Nigel Farage will launch UKIP's election manifesto today with a direct appeal to struggling working families around the country.

He is trying to draw traditional Labour voters in the north of England, as well as disaffected Conservative voters in the south.

Mr Farage has set a number of pledges to try to entice support, including creating 6,000 police, prison and Border Agency jobs for armed service veterans.

He is also promising to cut rates for small businesses, increase defence spending to 2% of GDP in line with NATO obligations, and introduce an Australian-style points system to manage the number and skills of people coming into the UK.

Mr Farage will argue: "For the first time in 100 years, there is real change on the horizon. All you have to do is vote for it."

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The problem for UKIP is that it has relatively inexperienced and understaffed local networks to ensure supporters get to the polls on 7 May.

Although it consistently polls at between 12 and 15%, it does not have the party machinery of either the Conservatives or Labour.

The manifesto launch will also throw red meat to core supporters in what the party calls "serious, fully-costed policies that reflect what UKIP is all about: believing in our country".

The party says it will reduce the burden on the low-paid and unskilled, including a promise to help young people get onto the housing ladder by removing stamp duty on the first £250,000 for new homes built on brownfield sites.

It is also pledging to build a dedicated military hospital and abolish hospital parking charges, stopping what it calls the "the tax on illness".

UKIP is also vowing to invest an extra £12bn in the NHS, with another £5.2bn put into social care.

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Green Manifesto To Pledge 'Peaceful Revolution'

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By Joey Jones, Deputy Political Editor

The Green Party will launch its manifesto vowing to combat austerity which it says has "failed" and should be ended by a "peaceful political revolution".

The party has been more prominent than ever before in this election campaign, though its chances of building on its current tally of a single seat (Brighton Pavilion) remain limited.

The party leader, Natalie Bennett, is expected to argue its proposals represent a "genuine alternative to our tired, business-as-usual politics".

While ecological policies remain central to the Green brand, the party is making inroads into Labour and Liberal Democrat territory.

The party calls for what it describes as a fairer society, with the wealthiest paying substantially more in taxation and a desire to create many more jobs paying the living wage.

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In national polling, the Greens have at times leaped ahead of the Liberal Democrats at around 7 or 8%.

However, under a first-past-the-post voting system they are likely to struggle to translate their success into larger parliamentary representation.

Nevertheless, what party leaders describe as the "Green surge" is making Labour and Lib Dem rivals anxious and is shifting the dynamic in some marginal seats.

The Greens' cause has not been helped by some halting performances by Natalie Bennett, most notably an interview with LBC's Nick Ferrari where she struggled to recall elements of party policy.

In recent weeks there are signs the leader has steadied the ship. She acquitted herself professionally in ITV's recent debate - but the knives will be out if there are any signs of frailty at this high-profile event.

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Tories Put Right To Buy At Heart Of Manifesto

By Anushka Asthana, Political Correspondent

David Cameron will say he leads the "party of working people" as he unveils a Conservative policy to extend the Right-to-Buy scheme to a further 1.3 million families.

The promise will be one of two big housing announcements in the Tory manifesto as the Prime Minister launches his detailed election pledges in Wiltshire.

As well as extending the ability to purchase your home at a discount to housing association tenants, the party will promise a £1bn fund for building 400,000 new properties on brownfield sites.

Mr Cameron will say: "At the heart of this manifesto is a simple proposition. We are the party of working people, offering you security at every stage of your life."

He will talk about young people looking for training, people trying to find a decent job, to buy their own home, needing help with childcare or relying on the NHS.

Other Tory policy pledges will include:

:: Raising the personal allowance for tax to £12,500

:: Increasing the starting salary for the 40p rate to £50,000

:: Raising the inheritance tax threshold for family homes to £1m

:: An annual £8bn boost for NHS funding

Mr Cameron's claim that the Conservatives are the party for workers comes after Labour said it wanted to be seen as the fiscally responsible option for government.

Mr Miliband has sought to highlight a number of policies put forward by the Conservatives that are unfunded - saying every Labour manifesto pledge will be fully paid for.

A senior Conservative source told Sky News that his party was not worried by the Labour promise because it meant the opposition was choosing to talk about an area in which it was "weakest" in the eyes of the public.

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He claimed the Conservatives had a "track record" that meant its promises would be believed.

The Right-to-Buy allows people to buy their home at a discount but has so far been available only to those in council homes, with some housing association tenants accessing the weaker "right to acquire" and some having no rights.

Under the new plans they will all be able to apply for the main scheme which can lead to a discount of up to 70% depending on the length of the tenancy. The homes will have to be replaced.

A Tory Government would fund the Brownfield Regeneration Fund, and replacement of properties sold under the extended Right-to-Buy, by requiring local authorities to manage their housing assets more efficiently.

They would also have to sell off their most expensive properties and replace them in the same area with normal affordable housing as they fall vacant.

Ministers say this will lead to the sale and replacement of about 15,000 homes a year, or around four in every thousand social properties.

Mr Cameron will add: "Conservatives have dreamed of building a property-owning democracy for generations, and today I can tell you what this generation of Conservatives is going to do.

"The next Conservative Government will extend the Right-to-Buy to all housing association tenants in this country; 1.3 million extra families; a new generation given the security of a home of their own.

"So this generation of Conservatives can proudly say it: the dream of a property-owning democracy is alive - and we will fulfil it."

He will call on voters "not to waste the past five years".

Ruth Davison, Director of Policy and External Affairs at the National Housing Federation said: "While extending Right to Buy will see some people being able to buy their own home with help from the taxpayer, these are people already living in good secure homes on some of the country's cheapest rents.

"It won't help the millions of people in private rented homes who are desperate to buy but have no hope of doing so, nor the three million adult children living with their parents because they can't afford to rent or buy."

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Labour Launches 'Responsibility Lock' Manifesto

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By Jason Farrell, Senior Political Correspondent

Economic responsibility will be front and centre of Labour's Manifesto, being launched in Manchester later.

The party will use the first page of the election document to make a "Budget Responsibility Lock" pledge, claiming every policy is paid for.

The manifesto states: "Not one commitment requires additional borrowing. We are the first party to make that pledge and with this manifesto it is delivered."

Ed Miliband will promise that all of his party's commitments will be fully-funded, refuting Conservative claims that Labour's plans would lead to economic chaos.

He will say: "The very start of our manifesto is different to previous elections.

"It does not do what most manifestos do. It isn't a shopping list of spending policies.

"It does something different: its very first page sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy in this manifesto is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing."

The party says it will cut the deficit every year, placing the promise on "the first line of Labour's first budget".

Labour also says it will legislate to require all major parties to have their manifesto audited by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility.

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Mr Miliband will also attack Tory economic plans saying: "In recent days you have seen the Conservatives throwing spending promises around with no idea of where the money is coming from, promises which are unfunded, unfair and unbelievable.

"That approach is bad for the nation's books. And nothing is more dangerous to our NHS than saying you will protect it without being able to say where the money is coming from. You can't help the NHS with an IOU."

This is a direct attack on the Tories' extra £8bn pledge on the NHS announced on Friday and it is striking that Labour now thinks it stands as the party of economic credibility.

But speaking ahead of Labour's manifesto launch, Chancellor George Osborne said: "It's clear Labour's manifesto will be a dangerous cocktail of higher taxes and more debt that will cost jobs and cut incomes.

"Labour must now answer two questions: Which taxes are they planning to increase to pay for it? And what is Ed Miliband willing to trade in the event he needs to be propped up by the SNP?"

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Hillary Clinton Officially Running For President

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Hillary Clinton has told donors she is to run for US president and seek the Democratic nomination.

A top adviser to the former First Lady and Secretary of State made her 2016 plans official with an email message sent to veterans of her first presidential campaign.

Minutes later, Mrs Clinton announced the details on her campaign website.

She said in a video, uploaded to her new campaign website, that "everyday Americans need a champion. I want to be that champion".

She said: "I'm getting ready to do something too, I'm running for President.

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Hillary Clinton used Twitter to post a message about her decision to run for president

Her daughter Chelsea was quick to express her pride

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"Americans have fought their way back from tough economic times but the deck is still stacked in favour of those at the top.

"Everyday Americans need a champion, and I want to be that champion, so you can do more than just get by, you can get ahead, and stay ahead, because when families are strong, America is strong.

"So I'm hitting the road to earn your vote, because it's your time, and I hope you'll join me on this journey."

Her daughter Chelsea tweeted: "Very proud of you Mom! @HillaryClinton."

Mrs Clinton is aiming to be the first female president.

She enters the Democratic primaries in a strong position to succeed her rival from the 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama.

Following Sunday's announcement, she's expected to travel soon to early voting states, including Iowa and New Hampshire.

Mrs Clinton has signalled that she intends to run on strengthening economic security for the middle class and expanding opportunities for working families.

Republicans are already trying to link Mrs Clinton to President Obama. They say electing her would be no different from giving Mr Obama a third term.

Republican presidential contender Randy Paul said Mrs Clinton was a poor choice.

He said: "Hillary Clinton represents the worst of the Washington machine – the arrogance of power, corruption and cover-up, conflicts of interest and failed leadership with tragic consequences."

Sky's US correspondent Greg Milam, who is in Iowa ahead of an expected speech from Mrs Clinton, said: "She has kept us waiting for it and it didn't come out as expected with an announcement on social media from Hillary Clinton.

"It came in an email from John Podesta, a veteran of the Obama White House and now part of Hillary Clinton's team.

"It's interesting that it was him reaching out to donors, the people who will raise the expected $1bn for her campaign, getting them on side."

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In an election clash on health policy, one of the biggest Westminster parties is accusing the other of fiscal irresponsibility.

Sounds like a Tory attack on Labour, doesn't it?

But in 2015, this accusation is flying in the opposite direction.

Labour is hitting out at the Conservatives for making a big promise to boost annual NHS spending by £8bn a year that they say is "unfunded" and "unbelievable".

And it isn't the first major pledge from the Tories that is not accompanied with a detailed breakdown of how it will be afforded.

David Cameron's party is offering tax cuts and a rail fare freeze, too, as well as a commitment to eliminating the deficit and pushing Britain into surplus before the end of the next Parliament.

But we are not clear on exactly where the axe will fall.

Some £12bn from the welfare bill doesn't tell us who will be hit and when.

A promise to cut back on government departments doesn't explain which ones and by how much.

So why would a Prime Minister who prides his reputation for economic competence take the risk of these fiscally loose promises?

If you listen to the message from the Tories, it is what they call an issue of "trust".

They think that stressing their "track record" over the past five years - which includes making heavy cuts, reducing the deficit but also boosting spending on the NHS in real terms - will make voters believe them.

They think that because of a polling lead on the issue of economic competence they have built up a reputation for fiscal responsibility.

And now, with an election in sight, they are spending that capital with glee with a series of pre-election giveaways.

They know Labour has no such luxury. Its challenge is to counter public perceptions in the opposite direction; to convince voters that they can indeed be trusted with the economy.

But there is a risk to this Conservative strategy. After all, Ed Miliband's party thinks it sniffs a weakness. It will now go out of its way to highlight any funding gaps in Tory plans.

Take the health plans.

Labour's response has been to lay out its own policies for the NHS, that it says are fully funded by a mansion tax, a

tobacco levy and crackdown on avoidance.

The party's advisers are also highlighting Mr Cameron's own words in January that the "real risk to the NHS is the risk of unfunded spending commitments bringing chaos to our economy".

The Tories say that Labour's attitude is to pay for everything with a "tax rise" instead of focusing on a strong economy.

But they will have to beware these Labour attacks.

Their reputation on the economy may be solid - but these things are never unbreakable.

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Tories Promise To Slash Inheritance Tax

The Conservatives have said they will take family homes out of inheritance tax by introducing a new allowance which effectively increases the threshold for tax to £1m.

David Cameron said that if his party wins the 7 May election, parents will be offered a new £175,000 allowance to enable them to pass property on to children tax-free after they die.

For properties worth more than £2m, the allowance will be gradually tapered away so that those worth more than £2.35m do not benefit.

Inheritance tax is currently payable at a rate of 40% on the value of an estate above the £325,000 threshold - or £650,000 if a couple takes advantage of the existing allowance.

It is thought around 22,000 families will benefit from the move by 2020 and Mr Cameron said the costs would be paid for by a £1bn raid on pension tax relief for people earning more than £150,000.

Mr Cameron will say today: "We will take the family home out of inheritance tax.

"That home that you have worked and saved for belongs to you and your family.

"You should be able to pass it on to your children. And with the Conservatives, the taxman will not get his hands on it."

Conservatives promised a £1m inheritance tax threshold in the 2010 election, but were blocked by Liberal Democrats from implementing it when in coalition.

Labour Treasury spokesman Chris Leslie said the move was a "panicky promise from the Tories".

He added: "The Tories made a promise on inheritance tax before the last election and they broke it.

"At a time when our NHS is in crisis and most working people are paying more under the Tories, it cannot be a priority to spend £1bn on a policy which the Treasury says would not apply to 90% of estates.

"The Tories would choose to give a £140,000 tax cut for a house worth £2m while they have increased VAT on families and pensioners."

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Meanwhile, Labour has revealed its plans to crackdown on tax-dodgers if it wins the election, hoping to cut avoidance and evasion by at least £7.5bn a year by the middle of the next Parliament.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said it would take a Labour government to "call time" on the Tories' "lax approach", adding that Labour would set targets for HMRC to reduce tax avoidance by at least £7.5bn a year.

He said: "We will close the loopholes the Tories won't act on, increase transparency, toughen up penalties and abolish the non-dom rules.

"And our first Budget will make sure that, following an immediate review of HMRC, it has all the powers and resources it needs to come down hard on tax avoidance and evasion."

Conservative Treasury minister David Gauke said: "Ed Miliband and Ed Balls turned a blind eye to aggressive tax avoiding and evading for 13 years when they were in charge - they were the tax avoiders' friends."

The Lib Dems have also set out tax plans, promising "light at the end of the tunnel" with moves to eliminate Britain's deficit by 2017/18.

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Nick Clegg said his plan has "a heart as well as a brain", trying to drive home his claim that his party will cut less than the Conservatives and borrow less than Labour.

Spelling out plans for a consolidation totaling £27bn by 2017/18, made up of £12bn in additional tax, £12bn in public spending reductions and £3bn in welfare cuts, Mr Clegg will challenge the other parties to spell out in similar detail how they would balance the nation's books.

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