Local election results - live coverage

Local elections 2012. People have been voting in England, Scotland and Wales. Photograph: Alamy

1.41am: The Tories have sent out a useful round-up of the results so far. Here it is.

LABOUR GAIN FROM CON

Harlow: Lab 20 (+5); Con 13 (-4); LD 0 (-1)
Great Yarmouth: Lab 21 (+5); Con 18 (-4); Oth 0 (-1)

LABOUR GAIN FROM NOC

Nuneaton & Bedworth: Lab 25 (+8); Con 8 (-6); Green 1 (+1); Oth 3 (-3)

LABOUR HOLDS

Knowsley: Lab 63 (+4); LD 0 (-4); Con 0 (=)
Sunderland: Lab 64 (+8); Con 8 (-6); LD 0 (-1); Oth (3 (-1)
Halton: Lab 50 (+6); LD 4 (-2); Con 2 (-1); Oth 0 (-3)
South Tyneside: Lab 48 (+9); Oth 4 (-8); Con 1 (=); UKIP 1 (=); LD 0 (-1)
Sandwell: Lab 68 (+8); Con 2 (-6); Oth 2 (-1); LD 0 (-1)
Lincoln: Lab 24 (+7); Con 8 (-6); Oth 1 (=); LD 0 (-1)
Rotherham: Lab 58 (+4); Con 4 (-3); Oth 1 (=); BNP 0 (-1)

CON LOSS TO NOC

Hart: Con 15 (-4); LD 10 (=); Res Asoc 8 (+3); Oth 2 (+1)
Worcester: Con 17 (-1); Lab 15 (+3); LD 2 (-1); Green 1 (+1); Oth 0 (-2)

CON HOLD

Castle Point: Con 25 (=); Lab 16 (=)
Broxbourne: Con 27; Lab 3 BOUNDARY CHANGES
Tamworth: Con 18 (-4); Lab 11 (+4); Oth 1 (=)
Havant: Con 34 (-1); Lab 3 (+2); LD 1 (-1)

NOC HOLD

Weymouth & Portland: Con 14 (-2); Lab 11 (+4); LD 8 (-2); Oth 3 (=)

1.36am: Patrick Wintour, the Guardian political editor, has filed an early local elections story. Here's how it starts.

Nick Clegg was bracing himself for the Liberal Democrats' darkest hour in coalition on Thursday night as he faced the prospect of seeing the party's once mighty local government base shrink to its lowest figure for two decades.

Amid fears that the Lib Dems would be left with fewer than 3,000 councillors, the deputy prime minister was planning to use the next five days for a succession of media appearances in which he will seek to restate the reasons the party is in coalition.