FOUR candidates will stand in a key Durham City Council by-election.
Nominations closed at noon yesterday for the by-election in Newton Hall North ward to be held on February 3.
The four candidates are Liberal Democrat Amanda Hopgood, Labour's Aurelia Smith, Jeremy Stocker for the Conservatives and Independent Veronica Winter.
The by-election was called following the death in November last year of 67-year-old George Hunter, the city's council's deputy mayor, who had held the seat for the Liberal Democrats since 1999 when he won the seat from Labour.
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