After the first 80 councils had been declared there was no clear winner
In mixed results for the main parties, Labour gained Plymouth, while the Conservatives took Peterborough and Basildon, and the Lib Dems won Richmond
Trafford, Derby and Nuneaton & Bedworth moved to no overall control
Sinn Fein held Tyrone West in a parliamentary by-election
Bob Cooper
Political reporter, BBC Cumbria
Results have all been declared here in Carlisle - it's confirmed that Yewdale was the only seat that changed hands (going from Labour to Conservative) leaving it a hung council, with Labour two short of a majority.
Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor
UKIP has largely disappeared from our day-to-day politics.
So far, it's early days, but the Labour Party does not seem to be really on the march. Places like Basildon and Swindon, which once would have had Labour MPs, have not swung to Labour.
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Patrick Burns
Political editor, Midlands
UKIP are the big losers so far tonight.
Bill Etheridge MEP has lost his seat on Dudley Council.
He was defending his Sedgley seat.
Peter Henley, political editor, BBC South
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Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley tells the BBC he hopes to establish the Greens as one of the four parties who hold seats across the country but that it is "tough".
"We're being targeted very hard by big parties to take away our seats," he says.
He adds that the party's representatives are challenging "one-party states" where councils have become complacent. The Green Party is "becoming more professional" as it targets single seats, he adds.
Victoria Polley
BBC Essex
The Conservatives have won the Staple Tye ward in Harlow by a single vote, taking it from UKIP.
The ward was the subject of multiple recounts.
The result? The Conservatives got 574 votes to Labour's 573.
Tony Travers, local government expert at the London School of Economics, has said it will be "difficult for Labour to overcome" the Conservatives in Wandsworth.
Professor Travers said: "It's quite a big majority, and a council with low council tax and good services"
"For labour to win it would be a big exercise, and it would be a massive shock."
Could Tory-run Wandsworth turn red?
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Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert
So far the Conservative vote is only up by two points on average in council areas where less than 55% voted Leave in 2016. In contrast, the party's vote is up by 12 points in places where more than 55% voted Leave.
Meanwhile, the Labour vote is up by seven points on average in places where less than 55% voted Leave, while its vote is up by four points in places where more than 55% did so. It looks as though the shadow of the EU referendum is going to be apparent in these elections in the way that they were in last year's general election.
A 96-year-old woman standing in Newcastle's council elections has failed to win her seat.
Conservative Florence Kirkby, from Newcastle, was believed to be one of the country's oldest candidates.
Image source, PAHere's the full results for the Manor Park ward, with the Lib Dems winning all three:
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His party might have failed to oust the Conservatives in Swindon but shadow chancellor John McDonnell says Labour's share of the vote in Swindon makes it a realistic target for the next general election.
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The Conservatives have gained five seats to win the Essex council from no overall control.
Laurence Cawley
BBC News
Politics, it seems, is not the only election battle ground.
In Colchester, those involved in counting the ballots have been spotted engaging in a spot of cross-table thimble warfare.
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It was one of Labour's top targets - with Jeremy Corbyn visiting during campaigning - but while the party gained one seat, it failed to capture Swindon from the Conservatives.
The Tories have clung on to control with 29 seats, three ahead of Labour, while the Lib Dems have two.
Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert
We now have the results from nearly 50 wards that the Greens have contested this time around. On average they have won 6% of the vote. Where they fought the ward also in 2014, their vote on average is down by one point but they are holding their vote as compared with the elections in 2016.
Vikki Irwin
BBC Radio Suffolk political reporter
Labour are holding on to Ipswich Borough Council, after two more seats - Gipping and Whitton - were held.
A third of the wards were up for election this year.
Tim Donovan
BBC London, Political Editor
Labour hasn't been in power here since 1978. It came close in '86. Since then it's almost lost hope. It's been regarded as a really important borough for the Conservatives so, if they were to lose it tonight, that loss would have rumblings beyond this town hall in SW18.
Laurence Cawley
BBC News
Tim Aker has fought off a challenge from singer David Van Day for his seat on Thurrock Council.
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Despite being the UKIP MEP, Mr Aker stood on an independent ticket to keep his Aveley and Uplands seat.
Mr Van Day, who rose to fame in the 1970s as one half of duo Dollar, was standing as a Conservative.
We're hearing reports of a third recount in one ward in Harlow, Essex. "There's only one vote in it," reports our woman on the scene.