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The Labour candidate for Orkney - who has never even been there

LABOUR Party managers were trying to cope last night with the most embarrassing disclosure of the campaign so far - their candidate for Orkney has never been to the islands.

Richard Meade, 25, Labour's hopeful for the seat, told The Scotsman that not only had he never been to Orkney, he had never travelled further north than Inverness - 157 miles from his prospective constituency.

Mr Meade, a Yorkshireman by birth, insisted he would go to the islands to campaign - but not for another ten days, when he gets time off work.