Royal wedding: Party leaders to attend

The temporary lull in the election campaign continues this weekend as the party leaders attend the royal wedding in Windsor.

Following Friday's Papal funeral in Rome, Tony Blair, Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy will attend the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Having been delayed by 24 hours due to the Pope's funeral, the ceremony was set to take place on Saturday afternoon.

Campaigning is due to kick off again on Sunday as hostilities are renewed in the general election fight.

Labour leader Blair will continue to try to set the agenda with his focus on the economy, ahead of the party's first party political broadcast on Monday night and an expected manifesto launch on Tuesday.

The Conservatives will press on with their key campaign themes of tax, immigration, MRSA, school discipline and police numbers in a series of media interviews.

Howard is due to picks up his gruelling schedule in Telford in Shropshire.

And Kennedy's Liberal Democrats are due take their message into key marginal constituencies using their formidable army of on-the-ground activists.