Britain First’s Facebook page was taken down for publishing posts containing hate speech – but an hour later they were back online.

A petition calling for an end to the BBC’s ‘media blackout’ against the Green Party has reached 38,850 signatures – and counting.

The Liberal Democrat leader of Stockport Council has blamed the party’s national problems for her former deputy’s shock election defeat.

After the council became a ‘Tory-free zone’ back in 2012, Labour finished off their other main rivals to take all of the 32 wards as the Liberal Democrats surrendered their nine seats with 95 out of 96 seats now held by Labour and just one by Independent Labour councillor Henry Cooper..

Labour managed to keep hold of every one of their 52 council seats following the local election results, seeing off a strong threat from several UKIP candidates

Former Stockport Council Leader Dave Goddard, who lost his seat in the last round of local elections in 2012 after 22 years at the helm, was re-elected to the Offerton ward after a bitter contest with the local Labour candidate Charlie Stewart.

Ian Stewart blasted the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government for making around £100million in cuts over the last two years

Claremont Conservative candidate Bob Goodall has insisted that the UKIP election push will not cause Labour’s grip on the ward to slip – and that his party are not to blame for the protest vote.

With local elections taking taking place on Thursday, MM took to the streets to ask if people knew and whether they would be voting

Conservative advert has been labelled as ‘patronising’ by Labour and Lib Dem officials

Stunell was part of Lib Dem coalition negotiating party