Labour had better news in Eastwood where it held the Tory target seat.
If they are worried only about asylum-seekers (and, perhaps, illegal immigrants) it is good news for Labour.
Any sort of win anywhere would count as good news for Labour now.
That has to be a shocking piece of news to Labour, although it just adds to the layers of uncertainty.
And the big rally in share prices on April 29th was sparked by news that labour costs are barely increasing, while orders for durable goods are actually falling.
Shares in bakery firm Greggs rose 8% on the news but Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Rachel Reeves, described the policy reversal as "a total and utter shambles".
But other Labour MPs accused Mr Coulson of deliberately announcing his resignation on a busy news day - when former Labour PM Tony Blair is before the Iraq Inquiry, and in the aftermath of Alan Johnson's shock resignation as shadow chancellor.
The Liberal Democrat's Margaret Smith MSP said the numbers issue was "old news" and Labour needed to catch up.
Instead, the most significant news was the labour-market statistics released on September 16th.
Recent data - particularly Friday's news on the labour market - suggests that something is going surprisingly right with the real economy.
By that time the rumour mill was spinning news of a Labour victory and the grey faces of the SNP activists seemed to confirm it.
Dumfries and Galloway Labour MP Russell Brown said the news came as "no surprise to many people".
Meanwhile, the opposition Labour party stepped up pressure on News Corp.
"At the moment, it's quite uncertain where the coalition in going in terms of providing the kind of support to the supply chain that we were beginning to see under Labour, " he told BBC News.
Britain's latest labour market statistics have again provided happy news - in an environment that would otherwise be rather grim.
Asked if the Labour Party was guilty of opportunism in attacking News Corp.
For Labour, shadow chancellor Ed Balls told BBC News the VAT rise in January had already put fuel prices up.
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America's labour market generated more than its share of bad news this week.
Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans has described the reduction in EU funding as "devastating news for our nation" and accused Labour MPs from Wales of aiding and abetting the overall cuts in the EU budget.
Labour MP for Garston and Halewood Maria Eagle called for News International to disclose who had briefed The Sun on its story.
More generally, the Nationalists have accused Labour of hypocrisy over the issue given their relations with News Corp during their period in Westminster power.
But the sharpest critics of the malpractices at the News of the World, such as the Labour leader Ed Miliband, have been calling for her head.
Mr Murdoch insisted - on being asked by another Labour MP Paul Farrelly - that the debacle at the News of the World does not undermine his competence as an executive at News Corporation, parent company of News International.
He told MPs inflation and unemployment were down and the "good news will keep coming" - comments which Labour said were a big "hint" about the growth data and tantamount to playing "fast and loose" with the pre-release rules.
Mr Webb dismissed Labour's claims, arguing that the government had "good news for today's pensioners - both the highest ever cash increase but more than that year-on-year, above inflation increases whenever earnings grow more rapidly".
Finally, news from the Netherlands, where the finance minister and Labour party leader Wouter Bos has apologised for embarrassing the politician chosen to head the European election lists for his party, by revealing he was the party's sixth choice.
If elections were held now, according to a poll this week for the Ynet news website, Mr Olmert's Kadima party and Labour, its coalition partner, would each collapse to nine Knesset seats from 29 and 18 (out of 120) now.
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The good news for Mr Hague is somewhat overshadowed by results showing Labour clearly in the lead as the party most trusted to run the NHS, education, the economy and transport - although Labour has slightly lost ground on the first two.
This "don't talk down the kids" problem helps explain why generations of education secretaries, both Conservative and Labour, could be heard each year on the BBC hailing the news that for the nth year in a row record numbers of children had just passed GCSEs or obtained A grades in their pre-university A-levels.
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