Labour retains Cannock Chase and the Conservatives keep a Tamworth majority.

The party gains four seats to win the authority while Worcester stays under no overall control.

UKIP was almost wiped out in Dudley while Labour kept control in Sandwell and Wolverhampton.

The Conservatives won 10 of the 17 wards on Nuneaton and Bedworth Council.

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Express and Star

This is how the Express and Star is covering some of the local election results:

• Sandwell local election results: Opposition to Labour almost wiped out, external
• Walsall local election results: Tory gains leave them in pole position, external
• Dudley local election results: Tories take UKIP seats in dramatic dead heat, external

James Pearson
Political reporter, BBC Hereford & Worcester

Labour currently has control of Redditch Borough Council, but the Conservatives appear confident they can grab power. Labour must defend six of the 10 seats up for election (a third of all seats).

The loss of just one seat would see no party have overall control, the loss of two to the Tories would hand them power.

A new conservative councillor in Worcester said he's "shocked" to have won a seat, but that his result wasn't down to party politics.

Image source, Worcester City Council

No party managed to gain overall control of the council, with the Conservatives remaining the largest party.

Local restaurant owner, Mohammed Altaf, who took the Labour stronghold of Gorse Hill, said "when I was knocking doors, every third person knew me".

"They weren't interested in what party I was," he said, "it was about me, Altaf".

The Conservatives in Walsall were just 43 votes short of taking the Birchills Leamore seat, which would have given them a majority on Walsall Council.

Image source, Wallsall Council

In the end, they won five seats, giving them 30 out of 60 council seats,

The party's leader Mike Bird said he was a "little disappointed", but "overall it was an excellent night".

He said he would be putting forward a proposal to form an administration at a meeting later this month.

"Then it's up to the 26 Labour, two Liberals and two independents to make up their mind which way they want to go."

Simon Gilbert
Political Reporter, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

It was a big night for the Conservatives in Nuneaton and Bedworth. They finished the night with eight seats more than they had at the beginning of the evening.

Image source, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council

That meant Labour lost overall control of the council for the first time since 2012 - falling one seat short with 17.

The Green Party there lost one of its two seats.

Conservative party deputy chairman James Cleverly said the success was down to local party workers.

"Because of the work our local team put in we got a good result, I'm very pleased with that."

Kathryn Stanczyszyn
Political Reporter, BBC WM

In recent times Labour has enjoyed a large majority in Birmingham, holding two-thirds of the 120 seats; with the Conservative opposition on 25%, and the Lib Dems just under 10%.

But 2018 sees new boundaries drawn up and every seat up for grabs after a damning report a few years ago saying Birmingham City Council just wasn't working properly.

Failures in governance, problems in children's services and the Trojan Horse schools scandal all added to the criticism and the local authority has been under the watchful eye of an independent improvement panel that reports to government ever since.

Stephanie Barnard
BBC News

It's been a dramatic night in Dudley and we've seen high tension here.

Here are some of the highlights:

• UKIP lose all but one seat in Dudley, including MEP Bill Etheridge
• Labour lose Nuneaton to no overall control
• Labour fail to take Walsall
• Asha Mattu, widow of former mayor Elias, takes his Wolverhampton seat

Elsewhere, the counting starts later including in Birmingham where all seats are up for election for first time in 14 years.

We'll be bringing you live results and reaction throughout the day.

Nick Watson
Sunday Politics Midlands

In terms of who runs what very little has altered in the Midlands.

Nuneaton and Bedworth was the first result in and it saw the only change as Labour lost overall control thanks to a surge in support for the Conservatives who picked up nine seats – eight of them at Labour’s expense.

This was in part due to the collapse in the UKIP vote across the region, which saw the party all but wiped out from local government here.

Image source, bbc

In Dudley, UKIP lost six of the seats it was defending, including the Sedgley ward of MEP Bill Etheridge. The Conservatives were the main beneficiaries but they remain tied with Labour on 35 seats each and the council is in no overall control.

The Tories also made gains in Walsall but again not quite to take them to victory although they are now the largest party there.

In Worcester, another hung council, the Conservatives are also the largest party but it’s the Greens who hold the balance of power there after picking up an extra seat.

The Liberal Democrats comfortably held on to the only the council they run in the region in Cheltenham.

Overall the Conservatives have made a net gain of 27 seats in the region so far with Labour making a net loss of seven seats.

The majority of those Tory gains have come in areas of the region which voted heavily in favour of leaving the EU.

Simon Gilbert
Political Reporter, BBC Coventry & Warwickshire

Labour have a firm grasp on Coventry.

The party gained the Earlsdon seat for the first time in more than 20 years leaving them holding 40 seats.

The Conservatives have 13 and Independent's one.

Rob Mayor
Political reporter, BBC WM

The Dudley Labour group leader says some of the wards "were on a knife edge" between parties but he is happy the party has kept 35 seats.

Pete Lowe told me: "We started the evening with 35 seats, and we are walking out with 35 seats. We've gained one councillor and lost one. We've seen a total collapse of the UKIP vote - and the cut of those votes have gone to the Conservatives rather than ourselves."

James Fanning
Reporter, BBC Shropshire

Roger Lawrence, Labour leader at the City of Wolverhampton Council, said it had been a good result for the party.

"We've held all the seats we were defending. We've gained one and possibly two.

"I think people recognise that our elected members work hard for them, we are organised and good campaigners and active in local communities and it pays dividends."

Labour’s Celia Hibert gained Penn from Tory David Mackintosh.

The new council is made up of 51 Labour councillors and nine Conservatives.

Ben Sidwell
BBC Midlands Today

The only party to make any gains in Worcester's council election this year has been the Green Party, which has taken their number of councillors from two to three.

The party was able to secure Battenhall from the Conservatives, a ward previously held by the city's mayor, Steve Mackay.

Neither the Conservatives nor Labour were able to secure a majority: the Conservatives fell short by just one seat, securing 17 when they needed 18.

Labour, which previously ran the council with the support of the Green Party, lost one seat, taking them down to 15.

Stourbridge MP Margot James says the Conservative party has made a "big impact on front line services" and will continue to work hard in Dudley.

She told BBC News: "We have won five or six seats off UKIP but also one off Labour. The UKIP vote has crumbled and we have been the main beneficiary of that.

"We did take control of the council and I'd like to pay tribute to the leader Patrick Harley. The team has made a big impact on front line services and people have noticed that."

The council remains under no overall control with the Conservatives needing to win at least 16 wards to take control.

It was a target for the Labour party.

Seventeen seats were up for grabs at Nuneaton and Bedworth Council tonight and 10 went to the Conservatives, an increase of eight from the 2014 elections.

It wasn't quite enough though - 18 wards were needed to form a council majority, so the council is now under no overall control.

Labour held 14 of the seats up for election and lost half of them- all of which went to the Conservatives, who also won a seat previously held by the Green Party.