The atmosphere the small park next to the The Eagle & Tun Pub feels more like a music festival than a political rally. A DJ is entertaining the waiting crowd with an eclectic range of pop, rock and soul songs including Rage Against The Machine and Aretha Franklin.

Jeremy Corbyn is due to speak shortly to a crowd representing Birmingham's diversity.

Busy night coming up. Theresa May is about to speak at a campaign event in Slough, with the Conservative battle bus as her backdrop. Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, is to address a rally in Birmingham.

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Speaking to reporters on the Labour battle bus in Telford, Jeremy Corbyn has been defending his shadow home secretary who pulled out of two major election events today.

Asked if he had confidence in Diane Abbott, Mr Corbyn said: "Our shadow home secretary has done a good job, she's not well today and is therefore not on the campaign today."

Asked if her media appearances had damaged Labour's campaign, Mr Corbyn said: "Diane has been a great advocate for the Labour Party and a great advocate for young women trying to achieve in politics, and I think we should recognise she has received an awful lot of very unfair criticism and abuse in the past.

"She's not well at the moment and she's taking a break from the campaign."

Not usually stuck for words, Jeremy Corbyn was stumped when asked to pick his favourite Conservative woman - Theresa May or Margaret Thatcher.

In a round of quickfire questions for the Big Issue magazine, the Labour leader paused, then said: "Can we go into a quiet place and talk about that?"

Next up: "Emily Thornberry or Diane Abbott?". Mr Corbyn laughed, and said: "Let's go into an even quieter place."

News presenter Tina Daheley is hosting a live Radio 1 Newsbeat debate later, with leading politicians and an audience of 18 to 24-year-olds.

It's going out live on Radio 1, 1X, Asian Network and BBC TV's News Channel at 20:30 BST, and will be repeated on BBC1 at 22:45 BST.

Five young people explain what election issues matter to them.

There is a risk that people will be intent on disrupting the voting process, according to one expert.

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The Conservative leader has a far-away look in her eyes in this picture as she visits a stand at the Cheltenham Science Festival. Or perhaps she is concentrating on her task.

According to the Press Association, she started her visit at the GCHQ stand, where she chatted with staff from the secret listening post, before touring the rest of the exhibition.

Scientists showed her a building block from a quantum computer and she had a go on a steam-powered vending machine.

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And in other celebrity news, musician and campaigner Bob Geldof has come out in support of the Liberal Democrats.

In a short statement released by the party, he said: "For the first time in my life, I’m going to vote for those guys, the Lib Dems.

"This election is about nothing else except Brexit," he said.

"The Liberal Democrats are the only party with the balls to do their job of opposing the government. They happen to be my voice in parliament."

Ellie Price
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

Aerobics, haystacks and magnets, and a tongue-in-cheek claim about the "greatest election video ever", along with fake nuns and an offer from the artist Banksy feature in the penultimate election campaign report from Ellie Price.

Jenny Kumah
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

Theresa May has visited Wales three times during this election campaign.

Daily Politics reporter Jenny Kumah spoke to the four candidates in Wrexham - a top Tory target seat that used to be known for coal and steel.

Paul Nuttall says he never doubted that UKIP would be "vindicated" on immigration and security issues.

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After Sadiq Khan warned the Metropolitan Police was facing the loss of thousands of front line officers under Conservative spending plans, Conservative Mark Harper and Labour's Jack Dromey looked at police funding and policies.

They spoke to Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn.

Movie star Hugh Grant has sprinkled a little stardust on Labour Paul Dadge's campaign trail in Cannock Chase, Staffordshire.

The star of Notting Hill and Love Actually spoke to the crowds in the market square and smiled in selfies.

Local paper the Express and Star reported him saying:, external "I am not particularly a Labour man, I am not a Conservative and I am not a Liberal Democrat, I just support good people who I genuinely believe want to help others."

Mr Dadge is an ex-firefighter who was hailed a hero after a powerful photo emerged of him helping "the woman in the mask" after the 7/7 London bombings.

BBC Trending has discovered a trend towards paid-for UK election advertising in entirely new places, including Snapchat, mobile phone games, and YouTube wrestling videos.

Jeremy Corbyn tells supporters his party's programme aims to make this country a fairer place, not to set the young against the old but to bring people together.

He says London and Manchester's response to the terror attacks showed you "don't turn on each other, you turn towards each other".

This election is, he says, a choice whether people want another five years of a Conservative government, of continued underfunding of the NHS, crisis in our schools, crisis in our housing and the unfair treatment of the majority of our population.

Second in a series from BBC Newsnight laying bare the key issues in the general election.

One day spent travelling around the south of England meeting and listening to voters.