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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson tells the BBC her party's results show that "people are looking for a fightback against the SNP" and "the only party strong enough to win that fightback is the Conservatives".

She says she will "work hard and take nothing for-granted" going into the general election, but her party will be looking to build on Conservative local gains to "take the fight" to the SNP. 

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MEP Steven Woolfe, who quit UKIP in the aftermath of an alleged altercation with a party colleague, has said he would back the Conservatives in the General Election.

Asked by BBC Radio 5 live’s Emma Barnett if he would vote for Paul Nuttall or Theresa May, the independent MEP said: "I've got no choice - it would have to be Theresa May.”

Mr Woolfe said the party’s turn towards policies such as a proposed burka ban would “put people off” and encourage “moderate people who believe in a patriotic Britain” to vote Conservative instead.

A snapshot of the way things stood just after 15:00 BST. 

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In Scotland, Labour has failed to retain control of its former stronghold of Glasgow. 

The SNP's Humza Yousaf, Scottish Government Minister for Transport and the Islands, tells The World at One that due to the Labour vote collapsing, the unionist vote went to the Conservatives, which allowed the SNP to sweep up the "pro- independence vote".  

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The Padiham and Burnley West seat was won from the incumbent, Labour's Marcus Johnstone.

UKIP previously held 17 seats on Kent County Council. 

Labour's former health secretary, Andy Burnham, has been voted the first mayor of Greater Manchester. 

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The Conservatives have gained nine seats on Aberdeenshire Council to take over from the SNP as the largest party.

The SNP lost eight seats to drop from 29 to 21, whereas the Tories went up from 14 to 23.

The Lib Dems gained two, to rise to 14, and there were two fewer independent candidates elected, at 10.

Labour dropped from two to one and the Greens lost their only seat.

The SNP loses its majority on Dundee council, which is now under no overall control.

The party lost two seats, with Labour losing one.

Better news for the Conservatives, who gained two seats and the Liberal Democrats, who gained one.

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The drummer with Brit Pop band Blur has been elected to Norfolk County Council.

Dave Rowntree, who has played with the band since its formation in 1988, held the seat for Labour with 1,173 of the 1997 votes (59%).

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Iain Watson
Political correspondent

Labour insiders were expecting Labour to lose control in Derbyshire but that shouldn’t conceal how rare an occurrance that is.

Labour were the largest party for the past 36 years – except in the dying days of Gordon Brown’s government and after the MPs’ expenses scandal in 2009.

The former chair of the Labour group, Dave Wilcox, said the last time he had lost an election was in 1977. And he is not at all ambivalent about the main reason for his party’s defeat this time.

He told me: "Genuine Labour supporters have been saying we can’t vote for this bloke because he doesn’t speak for me. We heard it time and time and time again on the doorstep. We are not voting for you while you have Jeremy Corbyn as leader."

If Labour loses the general election, Mr Wilcox said he expects Mr Corbyn to "do the honourable thing".

To his mind, that means Mr Corbyn should stand down but he claimed "there is a fortress of iron around Jeremy that refuses to allow those ideas to penetrate".