Local elections: Sheffield heads to the polls as voting for councillors and South Yorkshire Mayor begins
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The polls opened across England and Wales at 7am today (May 2) to elect the next councillors for Sheffield City Council and the next South Yorkshire Mayor. The city council election is expected to be a nail-biter for both Labour and the Lib Dems. Labour are still the biggest party with 30 members but they are only one ahead of the Lib Dems, so the council remains under no overall control. This situation followed the departure of eight long-standing Labour councillors to form the Sheffield...

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