celebration in stoke on trent, just one counsellor of thousands finding out their fate. counting one counsellor of thousands finding out theirfate. counting has begun in more than 200 towns, cities and rural areas across england where voters have had their say on who should run local services. the tories are braced for a tough night, hoping to only limit their losses and among handle a very early results, they lost control of brentwood in essex whether nimal margaret paul lib dems picked up seats, hoping to make gains elsewhere, too, at the conservatives s expense. fantastic results for the conservatives s expense. fantastic results for the liberal conservatives s expense. fantastic results for the liberal democrats l conservatives s expense. fantastic| results for the liberal democrats in one of the safest receipts in the country and have gained three seats and are now up to 17 seats and the council moves into an overall control and it s a time of change in brentwood and we are de