Here's what could happen in the 100 days before the election

With just 100 days left until voters go to the polls, this year's general election looks like it will be the most hotly-contested in a generation.

Campaign teams from all the parties will be hard at work polishing their image in this crucial period, but here's a look at some other things that could happen in those 100 days...

On his weekly salary of £300k, Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney will earn £4,285,714.28 over the course of 100 days.

Almost 100,000 people will be diagnosed with cancer in the UK, according to data from Macmillan Cancer Support, while 24,000 will die from cancer.

The latest figures also show almost 1,400 people in England waiting more than 100 days for their cancer treatment to start.

A leopard can get pregnant and give birth to a litter of little leopard cubs and still have a few days left to walk to the polling station. The average gestation period for the big cat is 92-95 days.

A man in Corby, Northamptonshire, might only have his bin collected once - like he did in a 14 week period in 2014 - an experience he said left him at his wit's end.

Kim Kardashian married Kris Humphries, divorced him, and still had time to pop to the bank and cash in $17.9m made from selling TV and photo rights of the wedding.

At a speed of 186,000 miles per second, light can travel 1,607,040,000,000 miles in 100 days. But it won't have even been half a day on Venus.

If Ukip keeps suspending candidates at the same rate it has over the past six and a half weeks - five in 46 days - there will be another 10.8 gone before the election.

Liberal blogger Raif Badawi is due to receive 700 more lashes - a punishment which was meted out under the leadership of the late Saudi King Abdullah – of whom David Cameron said: “He will be remembered for his long years of service to the Kingdom, for his commitment to peace and for strengthening understanding between faiths.”

Napoleon returned from exile, conquered Paris, and was then driven to exile again in the 100 days war of 1815 (it was actually 111 days, but who's counting).

It's also the name of a second rate Bollywood flick made in 1991, where a clairvoyant has vision of a murder and while investigating it, stuff like this happens...

And finally, based on How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Kate Hudson could fall in love with Matthew McConaughey 10 times.

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