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General election campaigns begin across the UK

Gordon Brown has announced that the nation will go to the polls to choose a new government on May 6th.

Four weeks of campaigning is now under way at the start of what promises to be one of the most closely fought elections in decades.

Gary O'Donoghue reports from Westminster.

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