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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

The new Failsworth West councillor Warren Bates was voted in with a slim 132 majority ahead of Labour incumbent John Battye who received 988 votes.

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.

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Liberal Democrat candidate for Castleton, Anthony Smith, believes Brit’s should leave the country if UKIP start taking seats in Parliament.

Cllr Howard Sykes for Shaw Ward made his shocking comments as votes were counted at Queen Elizabeth Hall on West Street.

A Dukinfield ex-nurse who raised £25,000 for a hospital operation to enable her disabled daughter to walk has been told she cannot have the surgery after all.

Huge cheers erupted as Labour retained seats in 17 of the 19 wards, but lost Ashton Hurst which the Conservatives managed to snatch back by just 18 votes.

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

Ex-Tory councillor Andy Morgan, who had served the Hulton ward for 12 years, lost his seat to UKIP candidate Diane Parkinson after a tense night of vote-counting at the Bolton Arena.

Left Unity is a party ‘with feminism, socialism and environmentalism at its heart’ and was formed to oppose capitalism by cleaner Janet Phillips.