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Political parties have been stepping up campaigning at both ends of Wales as the election nears its final week. | |
Labour Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has been on Anglesey, where there are plans for a new nuclear power plant. | |
Plaid Cymru's Ieuan Wyn Jones was at a Pontypridd animation company promoting tax breaks for creative industries. | |
Conservative David Willetts went to north Wales addressing higher education issues and Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams campaigned in Swansea. | |
Mr Jones and Plaid Pontypridd candidate Ioan Bellin were at Dinamo Productions, which is expanding and has moved to a bigger location at Treforest. | |
The Plaid leader said tax breaks for companies in the creative sector were needed to stop companies relocating elsewhere. | |
Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams says they are taking the fight to Labour | |
He said: "We don't want successful companies from Wales to be investing in other countries and therefore that's why its important for us to be offering the same sort of incentives for companies to develop here". | |
On Anglesey, Mr Miliband and Labour candidate Albert Owen visited Wylfa, the island's existing nuclear power station and the site of a proposed biomass plant at Anglesey Aluminium. | |
Energy island | |
They also dropped in at a local school. | |
Mr Miliband discussed Labour's plans for making Anglesey an energy island, providing what they say are new sustainable green jobs. | |
He said: "The threat of climate change is so big that to reject nuclear power would I think be very damaging for the planet. | |
"Now there is a solution to the problem of waste deep geological storage. there's also the issue of jobs as well, because nuclear isn't just part of our environmental future, | |
"It's part of our economic future and I think its very important that Albert Owen has a plan for Wylfa and has a plan for this area, an energy island where we're going to get thousands of jobs." | |
Conservative shadow minister for universities and skills David Willetts canvassed voters alongside his party's candidates in north Wales. | |
Conservative David Willetts was campaigning in north Wales | |
Mr Willetts visited Glwyndwr University in Wrexham where he met the vice-chancellor to discuss the future of Wales' newest university. | |
He also called in at the Welsh College of Horticulture at Northop and took part in a phone-in in Rhyl. | |
Asked to comment about Gordon Brown being caught on microphone describing Rochdale voter Gillian Duffy as "bigoted", Mr Willetts said: "I think that Gordon Brown's words speak for themselves, I don't think there's anything I can add. | |
In Swansea, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said: "We're taking the fight to the Labour party, that message is being well received. | |
She said people had been very impressed with Nick Clegg's performance in the leaders' debates. | |
"We knew that during the campaign once the Liberal Democrats got proper coverage of our policies and of our leader that our support would grow." |
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