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t One of the minor parties, the UK Independence Party, has lodged a complaint with police claiming that the Tory and Labour candidates may have exceeded the pounds 30,096 campaign expenses limit.

In a letter to the Clerk to the Justices in Birkenhead, Dr Richard North, the UKIP candidate, claimed the amount of printed leaflets, office facilities, telephone calls, posters, hotel bills and other campaign expenses gives "good reason to believe that the expenses limit must have been exceeded".

Merseyside police said they would be making inquiries.