We're wrapping up our live coverage of the Shropshire Council election - thank you for following along.

This page was written by Tim Page, Chloe Hughes and Rob Trigg, with additional reporting from Mark Elliott and Elizabeth Glinka.

It's been an action-packed day and of course there'll be more analysis on the new shape of Shropshire Council in the coming days on BBC Radio Shropshire, Politics Midlands and Midlands Today.

You can find coverage of results from around the country and the national fall-out here.

Rob Trigg
Political reporter, BBC Shropshire

The Liberal Democrats have spent years nibbling away at the Conservative’s majority and today they achieved their end goal – taking control of Shropshire Council.

The Tories have been limping for years, politically and financially, but nobody expected the group to be virtually decimated in Shropshire, with their 2021 total of 43 councillors reduced to just seven.

Dan Thomas, who kept his seat of Much Wenlock said, “not in our worst nightmares did we expect this”.

The Lib Dems are a well-oiled group with some very experienced councillors. But the same can’t be said for Reform UK. In their own words, they are a “political movement” and “novices” with some candidates who had never expected to win.

In 2021, the party received 97 votes across the whole council area; today they became the second largest party with 16 councillors.

Staff at Shropshire Council have barely got used to working in a new headquarters after 60 years at Shirehall. Later this month there will be a new council and a new party in charge with its own plans and priorities.

In a county where things change slowly, today feels seismic.

Chloe Hughes
BBC News

I think this photo sums it all up for the Liberal Democrats.

On the lawn outside the bowling centre in Shrewsbury Sports Village, with the May sunshine beating down and clear blue skies, they let out an eruption of cheers that could probably be heard streets away.

It truly has been their day, and it's safe to say they're delighted.

Here are the final scores on the doors, after 74 counts.

Liberal Democrats will take control of the council, with Reform as the largest opposition party.

The Conservatives, who had a narrow majority until yesterday, are reduced to seven seats. Labour lost more than half of its nine seats on the old council, while the Greens added one to take them back to their 2021 total.

Wow - that was tight! The Lib Dems won in The Strettons division - by just one vote.

The winning councillor was Mark Morris with 695 votes, and the Independent candidate came away with 694.

The Lib Dems and Reform UK are continuing to dominate.

Ellesmere Urban has been won by the Lib Dems, the councillor is Rosie Radford.

Elsewhere, Donna Edmunds of Reform has taken Hodnet.

Here's a quick round-up of some more results that have come in.

The Conservatives have won in Shifnal South - Edward Bird is councillor.

Rachel Connolly is the first Independent winner - she'll be councillor for Bridgnorth West and Tasley.

Meanwhile, the Lib Dems have won in Whittington - their councillor is David Walker, with 591 votes.

And Reform UK has taken Bridgnorth East - electing Susan Eden as councillor.

Rob Trigg
Political reporter, BBC Shropshire

It really is all smiles for every Lib Dem you see here - they're ecstatic.

This change in the council's make-up truly is a seismic shift.

Heather Kidd told me on BBC Radio Shropshire's election programme she wanted to be leader of the council.

Roger Evans, her co-leader of the party group in the last council, also told the BBC he wanted that role.

Kidd told us: "He will. And we’ll have to see who in the group will elect us."

She also said that "as far as she could see", the Shrewsbury North West Relief Road was "dead in the water".

"We need surety round it now, because we keep spending money or we have been spending money right onto the last minute on it, and we can’t afford to keep spending money on stuff so it has to stop."

Reform have won in another division - this time, Bridgnorth Castle.

Peter Husemann is its new councillor. Just a reminder for you - Reform did not have a single councillor on Shropshire Council until today.

Two more victories for the party in control of Shropshire Council.

The Lib Dems have won in The Meres - their councillor is Sarah Marston.

They also won in Market Drayton East and Rural - the councillor there is Tom Dainty.

It's been a good day for Reform, although less stellar than in other counties, and they've just had a big victory in Claverley and Worfield. It's another seat in what has become a stronghold in the south-east of Shropshire.

Dawn Husemann is the division's new councillor with 690 votes.

The Conservatives came second with 383.

Image source, Dawn Husemann

The Liberal Democrats have done it - they now have majority control of Shropshire Council.

A nightmare for the Conservatives is reflected in an utter dream day for the Lib Dems.

They've just passed the threshold - which is 38 councillors.

But the day isn't over yet - there's still more to come.

An absolute eruption of whoops and cheers here.

Heather Kidd - joint leader of the the Lib Dem group - has absolutely wiped the floor in her Chirbury and Worthen seat

She had 1,014 votes - her nearest rival was the Reform candidate with 263.

The Lib Dems have secured wins in three more divisions - Prees, Craven Arms, and Llanymynech

Their councillors are Malcolm Myles-Hook, Joshua Dickin and Duncan Borrowman respectively.

Today really has been a dream for the party, as they edge ever-closer to having majority control of Shropshire Council.

There are still loads of people gathered here in the bowling club building. Many are on their feet, craning their necks to see what's going on at the podium.

Reform have won in Cleobury Mortimer, Pamela Davies is their new councillor.

Meanwhile, the Lib Dems have won in Market Drayton South - their councillor is David Minnery.

There are two councillors elected in the Wem division, and the Lib Dems will certainly be very happy.

Their winners are Alan Holford and Gary Groves. Holford had more than 1,000 votes.

Five more needed for the overall majority "winning line" of 38 seats.

Fifteen seats left to declare.

Tense, but well within reach for the yellow team.

The Liberal Democrats have won by just one vote in the Bridgnorth South and Alveley division.

Colin Taylor is elected as councillor with 509 votes.

Reform UK had 508.

We're told it was a triple re-count.

Local authorities are elected on a four-year cycle with different councils, or parts of councils, elected each year.

So for some councils, this year is not their turn. For example, Telford and Wrekin Council has its elections two years after Shropshire's, so those are next due in 2027.

Some of yesterday's planned county council elections elsewhere in the country were postponed while authorities draw up plans to merge counties and districts into unitary authorities which carry out the function of both tiers of local government.

Rob Trigg
Political reporter, BBC Shropshire

The Conservative candidate and the councillor in charge of finance on Shropshire Council, Gwilym Butler (pictured), came into the count very unhappy with the behaviour of a Liberal Democrat candidate.

Rival Cleobury Mortimer candidate Ben Williams was caught on a doorbell camera taking a Conservative leaflet from a resident’s letterbox before placing his own inside.

Another resident caught a different Lib Dem campaigner doing the same thing.

Mr Williams has apologised and said “it was not with malicious intent”.

“We should not have taken any, and at the very least put them back. I guess neither of us was thinking straight after days of working all over the district in the heat,” he said.

Mr Butler, who said he was likely lose the seat to the Lib Dems, described it as “absolutely disgusting behaviour and no integrity to local government”.

I asked Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey for his thoughts and he said it was right that Mr Williams apologised.