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Hello and welcome to Navaralive on a concerningly warm Mayday.

I am Dahlia Gabriel and I'm going to be joined by Stephen Methven.

Stephen, how are you doing?

Hey Dahlia, I'm all right. How are you?

In fact, I'm actually particularly good because today my, I think, new favourite colleague, Sesseie, brought me my first ice lolly of the season,

which was delicious and much needed.

So, coming up tonight, we have, the FAA has banned trans women from competing in women's football.

Tensions escalate between India and Pakistan over a massacre in Kashmir, and Irish hip-hop

Trio Kneecap are having their gigs cancelled. Stay tuned for all of that, and if you'd like to

support our work, you can sign up at navaramedia.com forward slash support. And as always,

make sure to let us know your comments in the YouTube chat, or you can tweet at us on the hashtag Navarra Live.

On to our first story.

Polls opened across England this morning as local elections, mayoral elections, and even one parliamentary by-election take place.

There are 1,600 council seats up for grabs, six mayors and in Runcorn and

Helsby, a new MP will replace former Labour member Mike Amesbury, who lost his seat for doing this.

Wait, oh! Stop in! Stop in! Go ahead, go! Right, wow, wow, look! Yep, that was former Labour MP, punching a constituent to the ground. Now, these aren't the biggest

set of local elections, but there may be the most important we've seen in decades. And that's because

they're likely to show that the two-party system in England is over. So a possible RIP to the chokehold the two major parties have had on this

country for as long as any of us can remember. Now it's important to note that there aren't that

many councils with a large number of Labour seats being contested in these elections. That doesn't

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