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Former candidate Alex Story is considering further legal action against a decision not to make him a Conservative MEP.

The former Olympic rower said it would have been a "huge honour" to represent Yorkshire and the Humber for the time the UK remains part of the EU.

The vacancy arose after Timothy Kirkhope was given a seat in the Lords by David Cameron. His seat would normally go to the person who came second in the Conservative list for the region at the 2014 European elections, in this case Mr Story. But the party has instead chosen the man who came third on the list, Leeds councillor John Procter.