A motion calling on East Sussex County Council to stop the spraying of a controversial weedkiller has failed to win the support of a senior councillor.
East Sussex County Council election votes are due to be announced this afternoon
FULL HASTINGS RESULTS: four Conservative holds, three Labour holds and one Green gain.
FULL ROTHER RESULTS: six Conservative holds, one Conservative gain, one Independent hold and one Lib Dem hold.
There were eight Hastings seats up for election and nine across Rother.
In Hastings only one county division changed hands, with Green Julia Hilton taking Old Hastings and Tressell from Labour.
With two Conservatives not standing again, Alan Hay and Sorrell Marlow-Eastwood were elected to County Hall for the first time in Baird & Ore and St Helens & Silverhill respectively.