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| | Politics | Tories lose local byelection in conference week |
 | | The result comes in a marginal ward, in a marginal constituency, in a county where Conservatives took control in May's local elections and made three gains in the general election on the same day. |
 | | Other than its win in Kettering, Labour had a disappointing set of results in the other two seats it contested. |
 | | The Tories' Linda Arkley, a former elected mayor in North Tyneside who was narrowly voted out in May, returned to the council, comfortably defending a Preston seat for the party. |
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