It's official. There is another vacancy for a parliamentary seat in Nottinghamshire. This time it is Nottingham East according to this report in the local paper. This confirms local speculation reported here last Saturday that such an eventuality might occur though for entirely different reasons from those cited by me.
John Heppell MP is standing down according to the online service This is Nottingham as his wife has breast cancer.
I wish her a speedy recovery, him a comfortable retirement and the members of Nottingham East CLP an open and transparent process to select a new prospective pariamentary candidate with no repeat of the Ashfield gambit.