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World Service,17 Dec 2021,49 mins

UK ruling party suffer shock by-election defeat

Newsday

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The Conservative party loses a seat they've held for nearly 200 years in 'a mini political earthquake'. So, is this a one-off set back or a sign of things to come? Super Typhoon Rai has made landfall in the Philippines forcing tens of thousands from their homes. And we hear from a man in Kentucky whose video of him playing the piano amid the devastation caused to his home by the tornadoes has gone viral.

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