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Thanks mainly to the Tories currently being about as popular as genital warts. However, Labour are not inspiring any great affection and are vulnerable to strong campaigns from other parties. Independents have done remarkably well in a lot of places.

In the very marginal ward where I live the incumbent councillor I like has won with a strong campaign against the lacklustre challenger with heavy backing from their party.

Elsewhere I am pleased that Ben Bradley has failed in his bid to become East Midlands regional mayor. He's already juggling far too many jobs and wouldn't be able to give the role the attention it deserves.

Oh, and the area Labour are going to need to target heavily in South Yorkshire at the next election is Rother Valley. Once about as rock solid Labour as it was possible to get, the Tory vote there is holding up much better than here in Miriam Cates patch for example.