Bookies cut odds on Respect's Ridley
RESPECT candidate Yvonne Ridley’s odds have plummeted two weeks before the Rotherham by-election.
William Hill has shortened Ms Ridley’s chances to 6/1 from 33/1 earlier in the week.
Labour’s Sarah Champion is the favourite at 16/1 on to take the seat vacated after Denis MacShane resigned over expenses.
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Hide AdTory Simon Wilson is 66/1, followed by both Michael Beckett from the Lib Dems and Ralph Dyson, representing Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts, on 80/1.
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