Rain affects Saturday's County Championship fixtures, with six games abandoned without a ball bowled.

The Conservatives secure 61 council seats and 49% of the vote in local elections.

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Bob Dale
BBC Live reporter

That's it for our coverage of today's local election results in the south east. Thank you for joining us.

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The Tories hold Surrey County Council while votes continue for the boroughs and police commissioner.

Amanda Akass
Reporter, BBC South East Today

The Conservatives hold another seat on Surrey County Council.

England opener Rory Burns makes his fourth half-century in seven innings this season as Surrey hit back against Leicestershire.

...and been allowed inside to hear some district council results.

Good news for BBC Surrey's political reporter Jack Fiehn, who has spent the day reporting from a car park outside the venue in Dorking because of Covid restrictions.

England Test captain Joe Root makes 41 as day two of Yorkshire's Championship game against Kent ends finely poised at Headingley.

One of the closest contests in the region, and also the country, will be in Crawley, where the Conservatives and Labour are going toe to toe.

Labour leader Peter Lamb has words of warning for his party, should they not be able to hold onto this local authority in a key marginal parliamentary constituency.

"We've got to be honest about this, if the result's not good then it shows that we have not yet managed to reconnect with people in the way that we wanted to".

Sussex are battling to avoid an innings defeat after Saif Zaib's maiden century helped Northants set an imposing total.

Relive day three of the County Championship as rain sees six games abandoned but Gloucestershire do manage to beat Middlesex.

A masked Amanda Akass also covering Surrey, with things running behind at her count.

This has certainly been a set of elections with a difference.

Because of Covid restrictions, BBC Surrey's political reporter Jack Fiehn, who is in Dorking for both the County and Mole Valley district elections, is reporting from a car park outside the venue.

Luckily, it hasn't been raining.

Brighton Pavilion Green Party MP Caroline Lucas said there is "nowhere where Greens are not winning seats”.

She cited local election gains in places including Hastings and told the BBC: "It's no longer the case that Greens, if it ever was the case, are only winning in places like Brighton and Bristol.

"We are winning all around the country because people like the practical vision that we are bringing to our politics."

The man is the "key to unlocking what happened" to police support officer Julia James, police say.

The turnout for the local elections in Maidstone was 21.4%, a spokesperson for Maidstone Borough Council has told the BBC.

A photograph of the count taking place at Kent County Showground in Detling shows a pile of sacks in the middle of the room - the brown ones are unused ballots.

Rory Cassian Love has kept his seat on Kent County Council for Cheriton Sandgate & Hythe East with 42% of the vote.

The Tories have won four of the five seats so far declared in the county.

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