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By 0700 GMT, Ed Miliband's Labour had posted 461 gains in Britain's local elections
Justin Tallis
The opposition Labour party grabs more than 400 local government seats in local elections as the recent problems faced by the coalition government spark big losses by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.