Polling Day. Mayors and councillors across the country faced their electorate today, although all the results would not be known until the end of Saturday. I wish our team well, especially in Dorset. A day to tackle the constituency in-tray and, of course, to vote. I remembered to take some ID. The police arrested 45 people after protesters blocked a coach that was due to take asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port. Take That became the latest act to move shows from the troubled Co-op Live arena amid a series of "technical issues". Marcus Arduini Monzo, a dual Spanish-Brazilian national living in Newham, was accused of murdering teenager Daniel Anjorin as he was walking to school on Tuesday, and injuring four other people. In Scotland, John Swinney was likely to become Scotland's next first minister after Kate Forbes confirmed she would not challenge him for the SNP leadership. Poor Scotland. And, in California, police arrested more than 200 pro-Palestine supporters at UCLA as they tore down barricades and fired rubber bullets, after hundreds of people ignored orders to disperse.