Arsenal's focus is now on the Europa League after their hopes of a top-four Premier League finish were effectively ended by a draw with Brighton, says Unai Emery.

The Conservatives lose control of Tandridge, Guildford, Waverley and Mole Valley in Surrey.

The Conservatives surrender overall control of Folkestone and Hythe and Swale councils.

Our live South East local election coverage has ended for the evening.

Caitlin Webb
Local Democracy Reporter

The Conservative leader of Tunbridge Wells council has been defeated by a new party set up in protest to a multi-million pound development.

David Jukes lost out to Lucy Willis of the Tunbridge Wells Alliance (TWA) by more than 400 votes in a shock result.

TWA gained five seats in total which has been seen as a symbol of support against £90m plans for a theatre and council offices in Caverley Square.

Compulsory Purchase Orders for the project have been approved by planning inspectorate Graham Dudley due to a “compelling case in public interest”.

Chairman of the TWA, Bob Atwood, previously ran the council with the Conservatives before he was ousted in 2012.

He said the result illustrates how people are feeling "discontented" with their existing councillors, mostly because of the theatre project.

The Lib Dems also took five seats from the Conservatives. Despite losing 12 seats, the Tories have maintained control as only a third of the seats were up for grabs.

The Conservatives have relinquished their grip on Guildford in local elections.

Earlier they lost of Tandridge council, a stronghold which has been blue for almost two decades.

The Tories also saw the Liberal Democrats take Mole Valley, where the Conservatives were previously the largest party.

It has left the Tories suffering their worst defeats in Surrey for over 15 years - senior party members have blamed Brexit and housing plans on the greenbelt.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

Rail passengers wanting to travel over the bank holiday weekend face extensive disruption because of engineering works.

Image source, Network Rail

On 5 May buses will be replacing trains between Lewisham and Dartford, as signalling is upgraded.

There will also be replacement buses between Sevenoaks, Paddock Wood and Tunbridge Wells because of track maintenance.

Signalling upgrades also mean replacement buses between Lewisham and Orpington on 6 May.

The Conservatives have suffered a big defeat in Swale, where the party has lost 16 councillors and overall control of the authority.

Independent candidates are the biggest winners, scooping 10 seats between them, while Labour picked up six, the Lib Dems five and the Greens two.

UKIP also suffered heavy losses - six of their seven councillors - as the Tories ended eight short of a ruling majority.

Elmbridge has remained under no overall control after the Conservatives lost three seats and ended up with 21 - four short of the 25 needed for a majority.

The Lib Dems gained one and independents gained two.

There is no change in Eastbourne. The Lib Dems have kept their majority with 18 seats on the borough council, while the Tories still have nine.

The Conservatives have lost eight seats in Runnymede in local election polls, but still retained control of the council. Three seats went to the Lib Dems and three went to independents while one went to Labour and one was taken by the Greens.

Meanwhile, in Surrey Heath, the Conservatives lost 14 seats - nine to the Lib Dems, two to the Greens and three to independents. The Tories there ended up with 18 seats, the minimum needed for a majority.

The residents association have kept control of Epsom and Ewell.

The Conservatives have kept control of Reigate and Banstead borough.

They lost six seats, three to the greens, two to the Lib Dems and one to an independent, but kept 29 to stay in control.

Labour have won Gravesham. The council had been without overall control after 13 Conservatives split from the party.

Now Labour have exploited the disarray, securing a majority of four, at the expense of the Tories.

They picked up three seats and independent parties two, while the Conservatives lost five.

Labour now has 24, the Tories 18 and independents two.

The Conservative Party has lost control of Chichester District Council which is now under No Overall Control. The party lost 13 seats.

The Liberal Democrats gained nine while Labour and the Greens both gained two.

The Tories have held Ashford, but - as in most of the county - with a significantly reduced majority.

The party's hold on the borough council, which has been subject to boundary changes, has been loosened, largely by independents.

The Conservatives now have 26 seats - a loss of 13 - and its overall majority has been slashed from 25 to five.

Labour gained three and the Greens two, but the Liberal Democrats and UKIP both lost their solitary representatives on the authority.

But the biggest winners were the independent parties, who won 10 seats.

The Conservatives have maintained a comfortable majority in Wealden.

The Tories lost six seats - four to Liberal Democrats and two to Greens - but held control of the council, winning 34 out of a possible 45 seats.

Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

Construction work is due to begin on the Worthing Observation Wheel (WOW).

Image source, Worthing Borough Council

The 150ft (46m) wheel will be close to the beach in Montague Place and from 7 May an area will be fenced off so that concrete foundations can be laid.

Image source, Google

The parts of the wheel itself are being constructed in the Netherlands and eight lorries will eventually be needed to deliver them for assembly in June.

Worthing Borough Council has awarded a three-year lease to deKoning Leisure Ltd, which will operate the wheel between April and October every year, when it will be dismantled for the winter.

Image source, Worthing Borough Council

The Conservative council leader in Arun, West Sussex, has been unseated by an independent candidate.

Gillian Brown and her Tory colleague Trevor Bence lost out to independents Hugh Coster and Anthony Dixon.

The council, where the Tories had held a comfortable majority, is yet to return a full set of results.

A third Conservative council leader has lost his seat in Kent.

Swale Borough Council leader Andrew Bowles was defending his position on Boughton & Courtenay ward, where two seats were up for grabs. The Tories lost both to the Green Party.

Canterbury's Simon Cook lost his seat in Kent. And John Jukes, the Conservative head of Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, was also eased out, falling to Lucinda Willis, of the Tunbridge Wells Alliance.

The Tories still have overall control, but with a majority slashed from 32 to eight as the alliance and other independents, together with the Liberal Democrats, made substantial gains.

Neither party managed to take a majority in Woking.

Ten of the 30 seats on the council were on offer. Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats won four apiece, with Labour and an independent candidate each taking one.

The Tories, which lost one seat, continue to have the most seats, but no overall control, at 14.

The Lib Dems, which gained one seat, took their total to 10.

Labour and independent councillors each hold three seats.