Local Elections: The results in North Solihull

LABOUR has successfully defended its last remaining council seat in Solihull.
Flo Nash was re-elected in Kingshurst & Fordbridge despite a threat from UKIP that could have seen the party wiped out in the borough.
It is possible that a late push by local activists from Momentum, a grassroots group set up by some of Jeremy Corbyn's most ardent supporters, helped see off the challenge.
Elsewhere in the local elections, the Green Party won a crushing victory in Smith's Wood against their former councillor.
Mike Sheridan, who defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) last year, polled just 17 votes and finished last in a ward that he had represented for almost a decade.
The Greens also won a thumping majority in Chelmsley Wood, where Chris Williams, one of the architects of their local success, was up for re-election.
In the staunchly Tory seats of Castle Bromwich and Bickenhill, two of the borough's longest-serving councillors, Ted Richards and Jim Ryan, were returned for another four years.
Ballot papers were counted at North Solihull Sports Centre overnight; the first time for a number of years that the local authority has not left local results until the following day.
Overall the shape of the council was barely altered by yesterday's vote. The Conservatives remain the ruling party by a comfortable margin, although the Greens have cemented their position as the official opposition.
South of the A45, Solihull lost its solitary independent with the defeat of Linda Brown in Blythe and the Liberal Democrats - who didn't field a candidate in the north of the borough - will have been pleased to hold their ground.

Full results:

Bickenhill ward (includes Marston Green)
Mike Longfield (Lab) - 565
Gary Macnaughton (Green) - 403
Jim Ryan (Con) - 1493
CON HOLD

Castle Bromwich ward
Cheryl Buxton-Sait (Green) - 268
Ian English (Lab) - 465
Ted Richards (Con) - 1859
CON HOLD

Chelmsley Wood ward
Sally Bell (Con) - 91
Emma Chidler (Lab) - 224
Chris Williams (Green) - 1652 
Rosie Worsley (UKIP) - 231
GREEN HOLD

Kingshurst & Fordbridge ward
Max Barker (Con) - 266
David Davies (Green) - 116
Sarah Evans (UKIP) - 537
Flo Nash (Lab) - 780
LAB HOLD

Smith's Wood ward
David Cole (Lab) - 364
Jean Hamilton (Green) - 1306
Graham Juniper (Con) - 96
Mike Sheridan (SDP) - 17
Gary Smith (UKIP) - 264
GREEN GAIN