Local elections: Reaction as counting continues after polls in England and NI

Summary

Elections are held for 248 English councils, six mayors and all 11 councils in Northern Ireland
Conservatives and Labour both see vote shares fall compared with 2015
The Tories lose 44 councils and 1,334 seats
Theresa May says results message is: "Just get on and deliver Brexit."
Labour loses six councils and 82 seats
Lib Dems take control of 10 councils and won 703 seats
Greens and independents also make significant gains
Anger over Brexit appears to be influencing voters, say experts

Live Reporting

Arryn Moy and Hamish Mackay

Council leader steps down despite election winpublished at 20:15 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
A council leader has said he is standing down - just hours after his party retained power at the authority in the local elections.
Steve Trow has been leader of Sandwell Council in the Black Country for just two months following the departure of previous borough boss Steve Eling.
He told fellow Labour councillors he did not want the top job for "personal reasons".
He went on to say he would continue representing his Old Warley ward, but would not be seeking any other roles or positions within the party.
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York: No party holds majority of councilpublished at 20:08 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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England's final fourpublished at 20:07 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
We're now down to the final four undeclared councils in England. The Conservatives have lost more than 1,300 seats so far.
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Mid Sussex: Conservatives keep control of councilpublished at 20:07 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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Watch: Candidates draw lots after dead heatpublished at 19:49 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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Gerald Ramsden was elected after a dead heat in Hambleton.
Candidates had to draw lots after a tie in the local elections in North Yorkshire.
Labour candidate Gerald Ramsden was elected to the Northallerton South seat on Hambleton District Council after drawing with the Conservative candidate on 527 votes.
The returning officer then had to randomly choose between two blank envelopes with one candidate's name in each.
Bedford: No party holds majority on councilpublished at 19:49 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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Cheshire East: Conservatives lose to no overall controlpublished at 19:49 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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West Berkshire: Conservatives keep control of councilpublished at 19:48 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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East Devon: Independents take control of council from Conservativespublished at 19:32 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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Nearly all the results are inpublished at 19:29 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
With the number of English councils left to declare their results now down into single figures, this is almost the final scorecard for how the larger parties gained and lost seats on Thursday.
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Son of murdered prison officer electedpublished at 19:25 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
Mid Ulster District Council
Kyle Black, the son of murdered prison officer, David Black, has been elected to Carntogher in Mid Ulster.
David Black was 52-years-old when he was shot on the M1 as he drove to work in November 2012.
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Kyle Black
Anything you can do, I can do better...published at 19:24 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council
It's Mrs Donnelly's first outing at an election.
She managed to out poll her husband by 99 votes in the first round of counting.
Depending how things go, it could be an awkward evening around the dinner table later this evening.....
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Forty years since Margaret Thatcher elected as PMpublished at 19:20 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
Exactly four decades since the Conservatives won the 1979 general election, pollsters YouGov have found Margaret Thatcher is the favourite of the UK's 14 post-war prime ministers.
Theresa May and Jim Callaghan were among five residents of Number Ten to receive a zero score.
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Hours of election replay for political junkiespublished at 19:18 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
BBC Parliament
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For those who cannot get enough of election results, BBC Parliament is replaying 15 hours of the TV coverage of the 1979 general election..
The archive footage with David Dimbleby, David Butler, Robin Day and Robert McKenzie starts at 09:00 BST on Bank Holiday Monday, 40 years to the week since Margaret Thatcher arrived in Downing Street,
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East Lindsey: Conservatives keep control of councilpublished at 19:09 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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Eight to go in Englandpublished at 19:09 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
After that latest batch of results, there are just eight undeclared councils in England. Below is the latest scoreboard:
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Spelthorne: Conservatives keep control of councilpublished at 19:02 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole: No overall controlpublished at 19:02 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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Lancaster: Labour lose to no overall controlpublished at 19:01 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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Dorset: Conservatives take control of councilpublished at 19:01 British Summer Time 3 May 2019
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