in the roads around Endcliffe Park and elsewhere?

I grew up in that part of Sheffield as well!

The use of large numbers of police when chopping those trees down was also pretty disgusting. The police need to be fighting proper crime instead.

The way that Labour in Sheffield have behaved over this has been abysmal to be honest.

Am I right in thinking that the council basically just shrugged and claimed that their hands were tied?

.....in representing Amey than in representing local residents. At times they have even gone out of their way to try and smear activists and to claim that this is somehow a class issue when it really isn't.

Greens did very well, and one of the seats they won in Sheffield is the one I grew up in!

Liberal Democrats did OK.

The Conservatives appear to have benefited in a lot of places from the collapse of UKIP.

Labour made a few gains on the whole, but I do think that they are underperforming right now. Which is all the worse when you consider how awful the Conservatives are right now.

Very large Labour majority. Will stay Labour; though some councillors may lose seats to LibDems or Greens. Haven't had any leaflets yet, but there are the usual issues: building projects and local objections; lack of affordable housing (some connection with the previously-mentioned issue, though much building is university- or business-related); road maintenance; the Covered Market, and shops there leaving due to high rents; etc. And some people planning to vote Green or LD in protest against the national Labour leadership's seeming acceptance of Brexit. For once, I haven't heard anything - yet - about wheelie bins. There are no Tory councillors now, and there probably won't be after the election. The County Council doesn't have an election this year.

I have had every bugger and his son knock on my door to get my vote. First time ever I have felt wanted!

Which makes his incessant claims of being a "local boy" look somewhat ridiculous. His track record as a Tory councillor, in one of the worst Tory councils was not good at all.

I for one would be delighted if the Conservatives lost control of Westminster council.

Worth remembering in the case of my Council that the plans for housebuilding are due to the government ordering them to build more houses, although there are a multitude of issues relating to that.

This contributes to the low turnout in presidential elections (typical turnout is 55%); and to the particularly low turnout among poor people and minority groups. This massively benefits Republicans.

I would much prefer universal ID cards - so long as they are free - to a system which penalizes non-passport-owners, non-drivers, and people who have negative associations with having to prove themselves to officialdom.

Let us know how things have gone.

I live in an area of Derbyshire with no elections on today, although my work colleagues in South Yorkshire are all wondering why they need an elected mayor.

32 Lib Dems, 4 Tories and 3 Independents (all in the ward with the planned development). So a 'local issues' election, really.

Labour increased their majority on the council. As far as I could see campaigning was non-existent - we got just one leaflet (Tory) and saw no-one. Sadly in my ward the Tory won.

Labour lost 1 seat to LibDems, gained 2 from Greens.

Now Labour have 36 council seats, Lib Dems 9, Greens 2 (down from 4), Tories still none!

But the big local news was the Tory losses in neighbouring West Oxfordshire: the Conservatives lost 5 of the 15 seats they were defending. They still control the district council, but there is now a real opposition (to put things into perspective, this is basically Cameron's old constituency, and the Tories used to have almost all the seats!)