Conservatives hoping to retain seat vacated by disgraced former MP Owen Paterson after sleaze row
Polls have opened in North Shropshire for voters to elect a replacement for the disgraced former Tory MP Owen Paterson, who resigned after being found to have breached parliamentary lobbying rules.
People in the rural constituency began casting their votes from 7am on Thursday in what is expected to be a close-run byelection between the incumbent Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
