A very late result from Birmingham.

Labour and the Greens have taken the two seats in the Bournville and Cotteridge ward.

That just leaves John Cotton's ward of Glebe Farm and Tile Cross to be decided on Monday.

That's all from our live coverage of council elections in the West Midlands.

While there were some big changes in Sandwell, Walsall and Solihull, Labour managed to hang on to Wolverhampton City Council, and the Conservatives likewise in Dudley.

The big elephant in the room is Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in England.

We know that no party has enough seats to claim a majority, but the final make-up of the council will not be known until the last two wards are declared following recounts.

Read our full stories of how things unfolded in Birmingham and in the Black Country.

And catch up with the situation across England.

These are some of the images of the day in Birmingham, where the authority has been left in no overall control.

Image source, PA Media

Image source, PA Media

Image source, PA Media

Image source, PA Media

Rob Mayor
in Sandwell

Smethwick Labour MP Gurinder Josan said the result in Sandwell had not been as bad as predicted.

"We were supposed to have been annihilated but actually we haven't," he said.

Reform took control of the council, which had been in the control of Labour for 47 years.

"This government has made lots of investment in public services, in lots of different areas, but we've yet to see the fruit of that coming through," he said.

"But once that starts coming through I think we'll see the difference this government is making."

The MP gave his full backing to the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, saying he was "the right man for the job".

Rob Mayor
in Sandwell

Sarah Coombes, Labour MP for West Bromwich, said "of course it wasn't a good result," but the party would be "fighting to come back in Sandwell" at local elections next year.

"We've got a few years to go before the general election," she added.

"People are struggling with the cost of living, people are struggling to get jobs, these are the things Labour was elected to fix.

"And we're never going to be able to fix them all in a year and a half."

Mansuur Ahmed, Birmingham's new independent councillor in Nechells says he stands for his community, "I stand for transparency within my area," he adds.

"A lot of my area feels neglected, but I'm an independent candidate not held by any party politics so I am for the people of Nechells."

Elizabeth Glinka
Political Editor, West Midlands

There are currently 10 independents who have been elected for Birmingham City Council.

Given some projections earlier in the campaign, it suggests the Independent Alliance backed by controversial figure Akhmed Yakoob has not cut through everywhere in the way they might have hoped.

Image source, LDRS

Councillor Karen Grinsell (pictured), the Conservative leader on Solihull Council, said despite the local authority falling to no overall control, it had still been a positive result for the party.

She said the group could run the authority as a minority administration with 24 councillors.

All the Conservative cabinet members that stood again - Heather Delaney, Tony Dicicco, Ken Hawkins, Andy Mackiewicz, Mark Parker and Wazma Qais - were re-elected.

Reform UK took all the seats available in Castle Bromwich, Chelmsley Wood, Fordbridge and Kingshurst & Smith’s Wood.

The party's new Castle Bromwich councillors include Alan Feeney, who earlier in the day had been elected as a Birmingham councillor.

Kathryn Stanczyszyn
in Birmingham

While most of the infrastructure has been dismantled at the Utilita and almost all of the councillors have left - two wards are still to be declared in Birmingham.

Glebe Farm and Tile Hill, Labour leader John Cotton’s ward, and Bournville and Cotteridge, have both gone to recounts.

While we know the big picture is definitely no overall control, this can’t end until the final results are in. And if that carries on longer it could mean a resumption on Monday.

Former West Midlands Mayor Sir Andy Street has been speaking to the BBC News Channel.

He said results across the country showed "the beginning of a recovery in some of the urban areas" for the Tories, and urged the party to "win back the centre ground".

He called on Kemi Badenoch and the party leadership to focus on "a mainstream Conservative agenda, which is about focusing on the economy, focusing on getting business and enterprise flying and dealing with the really practical issues around public services".

He said above all there should be a "relentless focus on the economy".

Elizabeth Glinka
Political Editor, West Midlands

Earlier, Birmingham City Council leader John Cotton seemed emotional as he told me he expected to lose his seat.

We know that there is a recount in his ward of Glebe Farm and Tile Cross, so it looks a close call between two of the candidates.

It is one of only a handful of seats still to be declared.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been talking to his members after a big day for the party.

After joking about the "Kemi bounce", he said there had been "some truly historic shifts in voting patterns in parts of this country".

"The results in the Red Wall are truly astonishing," he said.

"If I look at the West Midlands, we’ve comfortably taken Sandwell Council from Labour. We’ve comfortably taken Walsall."

James Pearson
in Walsall

With recounts, there has been a slight readjustment in the final tally for Walsall - a reminder that ex council leader Mike Bird lost his seat by just seven votes.

Reform has secured an overall majority of 20 and control of the council.

The party is likely to elect a new group leader over the weekend and full council meets on Monday 18 May.

Elizabeth Glinka
Political Editor, West Midlands

More now from Birmingham Lib Dem group leader Roger Harmer, who told us his party would not work with Reform.

Given that there is no overall control of the authority, he said his party would "work to establish a stable administration, however that is done".

"But obviously there is going to be a lot of discussions because there's going to be no easy way of doing it," he said.

On the possibility of the Conservatives entering a coalition, he said: "I don't think so, partly because they campaigned very hard on 'vote for us to stop Reform' so it would look very odd.

"But secondly they ain't got the numbers between them."

The possibility of a rainbow coalition, I put to him?

"Possibly, possibly, quite a wide rainbow I think at this point."

Emma Thomas
in Walsall

Former Walsall Labour party leader and councillor Matt Ward said it had been a "disappointing" night for the party, which had lost a lot of good councillors.

"It seems like people had come out to kick the government and local communities would suffer."

Reform UK has taken control of the council.

"It really is depressing," he added.

"We're doing some good stuff as a government, but people aren't seeing the change fast enough and quick enough."

Elizabeth Glinka
Political Editor, West Midlands

The leader of the Liberal Democrat group in Birmingham, Roger Harmer, said his party would have liked to have done better, "but nationally we've seen a big surge for Reform, and in urban areas the Greens have done well."

The Lib Dems started the day with 12 seats, and will end with about the same.

"So for us to hold our own - we can be happy with that, but we'd always want more," he said.

He confirmed they would not work with Reform UK councillors in any coalition at the authority.

Majid Mahmood, the council's former cabinet member for environment and transport, has managed to hold on to his seat in Bromford & Hodge Hill.

He's had a turbulent 18 months as the council's cabinet member responsible for waste services.

Many Labour candidates in these elections said voters cited the bin strike as the reason they would not be voting Labour.

So this is how we stand currently in Birmingham:

James Pearson
in Walsall

Speaking earlier this afternoon, Mike Bird said he wouldn't stand again, if he lost his seat.

I don't think any of us were imagining there to be just seven votes in it.

Elaine Williams, elected as a Reform councillor for Short Heath in Walsall, said she was "ecstatic" her party was now in control of Walsall Council.

The councillor is a frontrunner to be elected as the party's leader on the council.

"There are issues with the Labour government nationally, so we've had a lot of Labour voters come to us," she said, "and also a lot of Tory support as well.

"People want change and that's what we're going to be here to deal with."

The decline of the town centre, the closure of the town's Leather Museum, and planning would be top of the agenda for the party, she said.