The day was dominated by reaction to the by-election but there were plenty of other stories, here are the highlights:

• Labour won the Oldham West and Royton by-election with a 10,722 vote majority and higher share of the vote. UKIP came in second place, followed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats in third place. 

• Watch all the important moments of the campaign here.

• UKIP leader Nigel Farage raised concerns about postal voting fraud during the by-election, although a formal compliant has not been filed.

• Some Labour MPs who voted in favour of air strikes in Syria, have received online abuse and alleged death threats. In response Neil Coyle was given extra police security. John Woodcock has also reported abuse to the authorities.

• Two MPs are being investigated over alleged misuse of Parliamentary expenses. A 33-year-old-woman who worked for an MP is being investigated as well. Their identities are unknown.

• David Cameron has insisted air strikes in Syria will help bring a political settlement to the country. He was speaking during a visit to Bulgarian Prime Minister.

• Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour Party, called Momentum - a group which supports Jeremy Corbyn - "a bit of rabble". He also encouraged Ken Livingstone to step away from the limelight, suggesting he should "calm down".

• Ken Livingstone responded by defending Momentum as a campaign group, insisting it wasn't a "nasty bit of work like the old Militant". On Mr Watson's suggestion to "calm down" he said he'd been "quite angry" in recent weeks about criticisms of Mr Corbyn.

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Scottish Secretary David Mundell has said the news that the Forth Road Bridge will be shut until January for repairs is a "serious" blow for the Scottish economy. Although transport is a devolved matter, he said he had spoken to his Scottish counterpart Derek Mackay and his department stands ready to provide whatever assistance requested by the Scottish Government. He said.

Former leader of the English Defence League, Tommy Robinson, is launching a UK branch of Pegida - a political party in Germany.

Pegida which stands for Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West is against what it sees as the growing influence of Islam in Europe. Over the summer it held a number of protests in the city of Dresden.

Alongside Mr Robinson, Tim Scott, a former British soldier, will be the new face of the movement. 

In an interview with Channel 4, external Mr Robinson says he "felt ashamed" of his previous behaviour. 

He says he wants to ban the immigration of Muslims to the UK and the building of mosques.

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Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has rejected reports his department raised concerns with Downing Street about the 70,000 figure it cited for the number of "moderate" Syrian forces capable of fighting Islamic State on the ground. He said: 

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David Cameron has admitted that he will not be able to get a deal on his EU reform aims in time for the summit of European leaders later this month. 

David McAllister is a German member of the European Parliament and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's representative for contacts in the UK. He spoke to Jo Coburn.

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair - whose dire warnings about the consequences of a Jeremy Corbyn victory in the Labour leadership contest did not have the desired effect - has been sharing his thoughts on how the veteran left-winger did it.

Answering questions at the Council on Foreign Relations during a visit to the US, Mr Blair said Mr Corbyn's victory was "a product in a way" of an echo-chamber effect of modern social media, where like-minded people reinforce one another's opinions. 

He said: "Political parties have become more partisan at the same time that a larger part of the public is more open to new ideas and new thinking that isn't so anchored in that partisanship." 

The Labour Party should be looking forward rather than "debating whether we should renationalise the railways," he added. 

Conservative Home's Mark Wallace went undercover at a meeting of Momentum, the Jeremy Corbyn support campaign that is generating some controversy in the Labour Party at the moment.

The editor of the Tory-supporting website has written up a dispatch, external from behind what are, for him, enemy lines.

According to Wallace, the meeting in Lambeth, South London, heard calls from audience members for the de-selection of Labour MPs, including local Streatham MP Chuka Umunna.

John McDonnell the shadow chancellor, arrived later on to stress that the group's purpose was not to deselect or target MPs and emphasised the need for kinder politics.

Mr McDonnell is reported to have said: “There is a small number [of Labour MPs] who can’t come to terms with Jeremy’s election, or a mass membership.” 

To laughter from the audience, he told them they even had to work with Simon Danczuk, one of Mr Corbyn's most vocal critics, according to Wallace. 

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Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who is now co-chair of Labour's defence review, talks to presenter Shaun Ley about the result of the Oldham West and Royton by-election.  

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This Sunday, David Cameron will have led his party for exactly ten years. He will be one of just four Tory leaders to have done so in the last century. Ellie Price takes a look back at Mr Cameron's decade in charge.

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On the allegations from UKIP leader Nigel Farage of electoral fraud in Oldham West and Royton, Andrew Gwynne, who helped run Labour's campaign says he has no concerns about the role of postal votes in their victory. 

When asked if he has any unease about the postal votes, he says "Absolutely none." 

He says "I attended the opening of the postal votes on a daily basis, as did UKIP and the Liberal Democrats, and it's fair to say that the process was scrupulous and even UKIP on the days that we were witnessing the opening of the postal votes acknowledged that to the returning officer. 

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Ken Livingstone says the Labour win in Oldham West and Royton was "because" of Jeremy Corbyn not in spite of him. He says Mr Corbyn has had 11 weeks of "horrendous" criticism from the media but has now shown that he can win back votes that were lost to other parties at the general election.

He says fears that Mr Corbyn couldn't win an election are now "gone", and adds the by-election shows the Conservative vote has collapsed.

On his membership of Momentum, he says that it is a campaigning group and was not looking for the reselection of MPs, he adds some members are "mildly eccentric and all that".

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Tom Newton Dunn, the Sun's political editor, claims on Sky News that Labour won the Oldham West and Royton by-election "in spite of Jeremy Corbyn not because of him". The Labour leader had a "minimal impact" on the campaign, he says, and to claim - as Mr Corbyn has done - that his anti-austerity message led to his victory was a "bit of a stretch". He suggests that the winning candidate, Jim McMahon, was not really pushing the Corbyn agenda. However, he says that Mr Corbyn is right to celebrate the win and exploit the maximum political benefit given his current "vulnerability" within the parliamentary party.