Lib Dem MP Cleared Of Misleading Voters

A legal challenge to the election of Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael, brought over a leaked memo, has been dismissed. The ruling comes after a three-day Election Court hearing in Edinburgh, during which four of the former Scottish Secretary's constituents launched a bid to oust him from his Orkney and Shetland seat. They claimed he misled voters over the leaking of a confidential memo which claimed Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had said she wanted David Cameron to remain Prim