A pair of Republicans featuring in local story (9)
I believe the answer is:
narrative
'story' is the definition.
(I know that story can be written as Narrative)
'a pair of republicans featuring in local' is the wordplay.
'pair of' says to double the letters (I've seen 'pair' mean this).
'republicans' becomes 'r' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'featuring in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'local' becomes 'native' (similar in meaning).
'r' duplicated is 'rr'.
'a'+'rr'='arr'
'arr' put into 'native' is 'NARRATIVE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for narrative that I've seen before include "Chronicle" , "Storyline" , "Account of connected events, a story" , "Tale" , "Spoken account; story" .)