Original sentence: A decision not to contest the Norwich North by-election was taken as a prominent Independent Candidate in Craig Murray was already standing.At the time of writing, 3/8/09, Jury Team are inviting applications from prospective candidates to fight the Glasgow North East by-election which will probably be held in early November 2009.Jury Team candidates gained 0.6% of the British vote in the 2009 European Parliament elections, ranking 13th among nationwide parties.Once the elections were over, however, media interest in the Jury Team waned.The Jury Team is a British political party created in early 2009 with the premise of bringing party politics "without the party" to the United Kingdom
Edited sentence: By late July 2009, the Jury Team was clearly defunct, its bold intentions having led to nothing more significant than a webpage that is no longer updated.Jury Team candidates gained 0.5% of the British vote in the 2009 European Parliament elections, ranking 13th among nationwide parties.Once the elections were over, however, media interest in the Jury Team waned and traffic on the party's website, blog and facebook page dwindled to nothing.The Jury Team was a short-lived British political party created in early 2009 with the premise of bringing party politics "without the party" to the United Kingdom.Within a fortnight, telephone calls to the press enquiry office were going unanswered and unreturned; emails to national and local party addresses were ignored; and postings by the public on the organisation's facebook page elicited no official response