PA begins to notice UKIP

Pretty blunt stuff on last night's results last night,

TORIES BATTERED BY LIBDEMS AND UKIP

Tories crashed to a humiliating defeat in the latest council by-elections, being forced from first to third place in a south east England stronghold.
Liberal Democrat Alex Slater gained on a huge swing at Hazlemere South, Wycombe District, Buckinghamshire.
There was also a shock showing by Ukip which came from nowhere to take more than a third of the votes.