Worth a taste

The name is enough to make you retch. But Chicken Yoghurt, a blog written by a journalist in Hove, could prove intriguing: Hove is a key marginal with a slim Labour majority of 3,171. Incumbent Ivor Caplin is standing down and the Tory candidate, Nicholas Boles - the 39-year-old director of the Policy Exchange thinktank - is making a straightforward, determinedly non-ideological pitch aimed at local interests: more football (a new stadium at Falmer), more police, lower council tax bills, and the abandonment of a "megalomaniac" scheme to build a large block of flats. The Lib Dems, Chicken Yoghurt says, know the seat is unwinnable. One to watch out for on election night.