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As part of the programme's series covering 100 seats in 100 days, Zoe Conway reports on one of the most marginal seats in the country.

Kingsley Rickard, pictured above, from the King Edward Mine Museum in Camborne worries about Cornwall's future

"Our main industries really have gone, our engineering is next to nothing these days, mining has gone, our main industries are agriculture and tourism," he says.

Labour's candidate Mike Foster aims to protect central services from further cuts but admits that there will be cuts in some areas.

"Absolutely there will be certain things that will be cut but it wont be such things that drive the poor to food banks," he said.

UKIP's Bob Smith thinks Cornwall would get more financial support for development if tax money wasn't sent to the EU.

"It is British money given to Europe and they only give a percentage back," he says.

The Conservative's George Eustice is hoping jobs can be created in the local area.

"I've always argued that the best way to get people out of poverty is to help them off benefits and support them into work and that's been a big success story around here," he said.

Julia Goldsworthy, of the Liberal Democrats, used to hold the seat until 2010 and argues the party doesn't have an image problem having been part of the coalition.

"I and my party very strongly believed that we had to deliver a stable government in the teeth of an incredibly hard economic crisis," she said.

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