The BBC understands Luke Williams is leaving Swindon Town and the club will advertise for a new manager. 

He's been at the County Ground for four years, most recently as head coach. 

The team has just been relegated to League Two.  

The news was broken on air at BBC Wiltshire moments ago...

• BBC Radio Bristol: The Princess Royal will officially open a new training facility for Avon and Somerset Police today.
• BBC Wiltshire: The chief executive of Wiltshire's first ever children's hospice Julia's House says it needs the community to help fund its future. It opens in Devizes this weekend.
• BBC Somerset: A Somerset shop has managed to donate more than £300,000 to charity since it opened a decade ago.
• BBC Radio Gloucestershire: Wine producers in Newent say this year's crops have escaped damage despite the frost last month.

Chris Kelly
West of England Digital Editor

Some interesting information from the vote break-down for the metro mayor has been published, external.

Winner Tim Bowles found the majority of his support from South Gloucestershire where he won 22,547 of the first preference votes compared to independent John Savage on 9,503 in second place.

Compare that to Bristol where Lesley Mansell won 29,676 votes with Stephen Williams on second with 20,675.

In Bath and North East Somerset, Bowles won 13,103 with Williams second on 10,021.

Because the Tory candidate didn't win 50% of the vote it went to a second round where everybody's second preferences were taken into account.

Bath Chronicle: Hundreds of residents have backed the Save Weston Garage campaign, external

Swindon Advertiser: Sir James Dyson remains the richest man in the South West, external

Bristol Post: Happy anniversary Marvin Rees – what has the Bristol Mayor acived in his first year?, external

Bridgwater Mercury:Bridgwater's EDF Visitor Centre picks up community award, external

Gloucestershire Live: Headteacher of outstanding school wants to build new sixth form college in the Forest of Dean, external

The votes for Swindon's parish council elections have been counted overnight with three brand new parishes created in areas where none existed until this year.

Labour’s taken majorities in both central councils, with Conservatives doing well in West Swindon. 

The creation of parish councils was controversial in Swindon as the Conservative-run borough council created them to transfer the cost of services such as grass cutting and street cleaning.

The Department for Local Government published an analysis comparing the tax rises of all English councils – and Swindon comes out on top at an average of 10.4%.

You can find the full results here, external.

Just waking up?

Here's all you need to know about the local election results in the West so far this morning.

West metro mayor:

• Conservative candidate Tim Bowles has won the first election for the metro mayor in the West of England
• The final result was Conservative 70,300 vs Labour 65,923 

Somerset:

• The Conservatives remain in control of Somerset County Council and have increased their majority
• The Tories now have 35 of the 55 councillors on the authority, giving them 20 more seats than the other parties put together
• Conservative leader John Osman has lost his seat in Wells
• The former Lib Dem MP Tessa Munt won the seat in Wells

Gloucestershire:

• The Conservative Party has taken overall control of Gloucestershire County Council after securing 31 out of 53 seats
• Labour lost four seats, including three to the Tories, while UKIP lost all three seats it previously held
• The Green party doubled its number of seats to two after securing the Minchinhampton ward from Conservative cabinet member Dorcas Binns

Wiltshire:

• Local elections have been taking place in Wiltshire and the count will begin around 10:00am
• Parish council elections have taken place for the first time in Swindon, the votes will be counted later

Ruth Bradley
BBC Somerset politics reporter

The Conservatives remain in control of Somerset County Council and have increased their majority.

The Tories now have 35 of the 55 councillors on the authority, giving them 15 more seats than the other parties put together.

But the Conservative leader John Osman has lost his seat, Wells, to the former Lib Dem MP for the area, Tessa Munt.

The Liberal Democrats are in opposition remaining the second largest party though they have two fewer councillors, going from 14 to 12.

Meanwhile UKIP have lost their three seats on the council and seen a collapse in their vote across the county.

And the Green party has its first two Somerset County Councillors - both in Frome.

Labour held its three seats on the county council, in Bridgwater and Wellington.

And there are 3 Independent councillors - two re-elected, and one winning a seat from the Lib Dems In Taunton.

Conservative Tim Bowles wins the metro mayor post in the West of England.

Former MP for Wells, Tessa Munt, reacts to winning her county council seat.

Image source, Tim Bowles

The Conservative candidate Tim Bowles has won the first election for the metro mayor in the West of England. 

The Conservative Party took 35 out of 55 available seats to retain control of Somerset County Council with an increased majority.

The Tories took six seats more than at the last election in 2013 despite a high-profile defeat for council leader John Osman.

Mr Osman lost his Wells seat to former Liberal Democrat MP Tessa Munt by 95 votes.

However, the Lib Dems lost six seats overall compared to 2013.

Read the full story here.

John Osmon was beaten in the election by Tessa Hunt, a former Liberal Democrat MP who lost her parliamentary seat in 2015. 

The Conservative Party has taken overall control of Gloucestershire County Council after securing 31 out of 53 seats.

Labour lost four seats, including three to the Tories, while UKIP lost all three seats it previously held.

The Green party doubled its number of seats to two after securing the Minchinhampton ward from Conservative cabinet member Dorcas Binns.

Read the full story here.