And in February, there are worries about how the Lib Dems will perform in Oldham East and Saddleworth, where a byelection will be held after a court found the election result, which went in favour of Labour's Phil Woolas, to be void.
With more than one in seven high street stores already lying empty, property experts do not expect the rapacious growth of food chains to fill that void.
I'd grown up with that dog, it had died almost in front of me, yet I was void of feeling.
After the melancholy party had stayed there for some time, Monsieur Tournevau remarked: 'This isn't very cheerful, is it?' Unable to lose themselves in carnality and frolics, the men must confront reality, which Maupassant presents as a yawning void filled with monotonous echoes.
In another of the series she depicts a void in the mother's abdomen, where the infant had been.
Perhaps it was a bold, metaphorical design statement - a woman, uncertain of her role as wife, madonna and whore, expressing her sexuality by hurling the trappings of her repressed womanhood across the void into the 21st century.
He added: "Police officers are well-versed in being used as social and health workers, but locking up people isn't the answer and we are just not able to step into the void where we have before.
There wasn't a void at all, because so many people had been mentored in prison.
Gary Barlow might have thought he was doing David Cameron an enormous favour by hovering his tornado-sized charisma void over the Conservative campaign in 2010, but the scale of Barlow's tax avoidance has repeatedly come along to kick Cameron in the arse in the years since then.
So what do we have to fill the void?
It confirmed she had taxed the vehicle, but that the previous owner had untaxed it rendering her payment void.
