Another Labour seat on Middlesbrough council has fallen to an Independent:

Labour has lost a seat to an Independent in Newport. Chris Cooke is their new councillor.

Labour have lost a seat to UKIP in Redcar. They had no councillors before yesterday's election.

In the snooker World Championship, Tyneside's Gary Wilson is level against Judd Trump after last night's first session of their semi-final clash.

The Wallsend potter went 4-3 ahead but failed to capitalise on Trump missing a simple red and his opponent made a 54 break to level the contest.

They resume at 14:30 at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.

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Labour council leader Sue Jeffrey retains her seat in South Bank but her husband Ian loses to Independent Sandra Smith.

The Labour Party has held control of Gateshead Council after winning 17 of the 22 seats available, two fewer than it won the last time these seats were up for election in 2015.

Only 22 of the 66 seats on the council were up for election this year. The Labour Party won 17 seats and the Liberal Democrats won five seats. Including the seats that weren't up for election this year, the council is made up as a whole of 52 Labour councillors and 14 Lib Dem councillors.

A full breakdown of results for Gateshead will be available from the council website, external, and for full national results use the BBC's live results service.

This story has been generated using BBC election data and some automation.

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BBC Tees

The election count is under way for the Redcar and Cleveland council elections.

Nobody has heard from Naheed Khan since she used a Middlesbrough cash machine a year ago.

Richard Moss
Political Editor, BBC Look North

The election count for the North of Tyne Mayor is under way.

Labour candidate, Jamie Driscoll, is the favourite to win.

Big news in Middlesbrough as North Ormesby elects an Independent councillor from Labour.

Divock Origi's late header earns Liverpool a tense win over Newcastle to ensure the Premier League title race will go to the final day.

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It's set to be a rather chilly day thanks to a northerly breeze. There will be large areas of cloud with the chance of a few showers, but there should be some sunny intervals too.

A rather brisk northerly wind will make it feel rather cold overnight. There will be some clear spells, but with the growing chance later of a shower - especially towards the coast.

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

It's not over - it's far, far from over.

Many hundreds of seats are yet to declare. Many individual political stories yet to be told. So be very aware - the final shape of wins and losses for the government and the main opposition is unclear.

But at this stage of the morning, there is one message to both of the main parties at Westminster from this enormous set of elections - it's not us, it's both of you.

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Local elections are about different issues in our villages, towns and cities. But at count after count, Tory and Labour candidates have been paying the price for Westminster's failure so far to settle the Brexit question. Council leaders from both parties saying openly that voters can't trust them any more because of how they have dealt with the issue - whether that is a sentiment among Leave voters in Sunderland who don't trust that we'll ever leave, or Remain voters in Bath who are furious that we likely will.

Or more simply maybe, now we are nearly three years on from the referendum itself, this is a verdict on the competence of Westminster's biggest parties, on the mess of handling Brexit.

The beneficiaries? A Lib Dem recovery of sorts, a marked pick-up for the Greens, and independent councillors gobbling up seats in different pockets of the country. By traditional measures at this early stage, Labour is far from making the strides of a party marching towards Number 10. The Tories have so far escaped the worst. But their divisions over Brexit have cost them both - and neither of them have an obvious way out.

But as I say, many more results are yet to come in, and you can keep up with them here throughout the day.

Richard Moss
Political Editor, BBC Look North

Labour had a lot to lose in the North East & Cumbria. It is the party that dominates its town halls - but it took some heavy hits overnight.

Sunderland’s voters delivered the early blows - 12 councillors gone.

Then Hartlepool was lost; losses in Allerdale hit double figures and, to add insult to injury, there was a by-election defeat in a usually reliable part of County Durham.

And the party’s problems in northern Mayoral races continue as their candidates trailed in a distant second to Independents in Middlesbrough and Copeland.

Local leaders were quick to point to Brexit confusion. But that just highlights the party’s dilemma. While their leader in Sunderland claims flirting with a new referendum cost him councillors, Newcastle’s Labour leader says a failure to fully back one backfired.

And it just seems voters wanted anyone but Labour in some places. How else to explain gains for UKIP, Greens, Lib Dems, Independents and Conservatives?

As the establishment in the region, perhaps some sort of kicking for Labour was inevitable. But do not discount local factors.

It may be convenient - and partly justified - for council leaders to blame events in Westminster, but anyone who has talked to voters in the region will know that some Labour regimes here are far from loved.

And last night’s losses are likely to continue in other parts of the patch as more results come in.

Results in the Middlesbrough mayoral election held 2 May 2019.

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North East and Cumbria

A burst water main in Newcastle city centre has led to a key road being closed off.

Blackett Street is shut between the junction with Percy Street/Newgate Street and Northumberland Street/Pilgrim Street.

It's been closed since just before 04:00 and is expected to remain so until this afternoon.

Northumbrian Water said it is aiming to have the water main fixed by midday.

We're still awaiting results for some areas in the local council elections, but as they're not due to be announced until this afternoon we're going to switch our focus to other events across the region.

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Of course, we'll keep you up to date with any other election news and once the results are announced we'll bring them straight to you.

Find your result and follow the others as they come in using our interactive map.

If you missed it here's what happened overnight in the North East mayoral and council elections:

• Labour's share of the vote is dented in Sunderland, South Tyneside and Newcastle
• Independent candidate becomes Middlesbrough's directly elected mayor
• Labour lost its majority on Hartlepool Council

• The election result for the Mayor of the new North of Tyne Combined Authority will be declared on Friday afternoon
• There will also be council election results for Gateshead, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Stockton and Redcar and Cleveland councils, starting from 13:00.

Our coverage of the overnight results has ended now but we'll be back from 08:00 with more reaction, as well as news, sport, weather and travel from across the North East.