it's friday december the 17th. our top story. the liberal democrats have pulled off a stunning victory in the north shropshire by—election, taking one of the country's safest conservative seats. it follows the resignation of tory mp owen paterson, who was found to have breached parliamentary rules on lobbying. he won the last election in 2019 with a majority of nearly 23,000. 0ur political correspondent jonathan blake is in shrewsbury. good morning. putting this in perspective, helen morgan's liberal democrat win, put that in some kind of order. ,., ., democrat win, put that in some kind of order. ., ., , of order. good morning, last night when polling _ of order. good morning, last night when polling stations _ of order. good morning, last night when polling stations closed - of order. good morning, last night when polling stations closed it - when polling stations closed it appeared the race was close. it tightened over several weeks of the campaign in north shropshire but in the early hours, the lib dems claimed victory predicting a comfortable win. and when it was