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A botched Renfrewshire by-election has cost taxpayers at least £16,000 with council bosses still waiting for another bill to come through the door, the Express can reveal. Council chiefs were embarrassingly forced to scrap the poll in the Paisley Southeast ward last month even after postal votes had been sent …

A postie hoarded more than 1,000 undelivered parcels and letters in his work locker and his home. William Laurie, 56, from Bridge of Weir, kept packages including Ikea cutlery, a watch and a batch of election polling cards during a two-year spell. He was finally caught out when suspicious Royal …