It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

1. Local elections 2013: Summary of overnight Council results (25 comments) by Caron Lindsay
2. What the 2013 local elections mean – for the Lib Dems and the next election (and beyond) (79 comments) by Stephen Tall
3. Local elections 2013 live blog….. (19 comments) by The Voice
4. Local elections 2013: the story in four graphics (56 comments) by Stephen Tall
5. Jo Swinson thanks hospital staff for “keeping me alive” (12 comments) by Caron Lindsay

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

1. Housing
2. A&E
3. Post election review
4. Manifesto & Policy 2015
5. Foyle’s War

5 from the LDV archive

(10 May, 2007-12)

1. Parliamentary Party table motion to trigger General Election (16 comments) by The Founding Editor, from 2007
2. Hillary’s ‘What Ifs’ (2 comments) by Stephen Tall, from 2008
3. Opinion: Have the Tories gone mad, or am I missing something? (14 comments) by Joe Taylor, from 2010
4. Gordon Brown to resign, Lib Dems to open formal talks with Labour (57 comments) by The Voice, from 2010
5. PCC rules against Daily Telegraph’s sting operation (5 comments) by The Voice, from 2011

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

1. local election results 2013
2. jeremy clarkson
3. liberal democrat autumn conference 2013
4. local elections 2013
5. lib dems 2010 manifesto council tax

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

This article by Fred Carver @whoruleswhere – analysing the Lib Dems anthropologically – is pure genius! whoruleswhere.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/arg…

— Martin Tod (@mpntod) May 3, 2013

‘You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.’

— Ab Brightman (@AbBrightman) May 6, 2013

I love security theatre. At a Gov’t Department. Can’t leave my bike outside, for security reasons. So I’m allowed to wheel it inside … #fb

— Julian Huppert (@julianhuppert) May 8, 2013

News: Liberal family grows as the #ALDE Party Council welcomes two new member parties bit.ly/16mb67E #Ukraine #Aland #Finland

— ALDE Party (@ALDEParty) May 10, 2013

#LibDem peer Lord Sharkey introduces private members bill to pardon #Alan #Turing

— John Leech(@johnleechmcr) May 9, 2013

If you are a Lib Dem who tweets, and would like to be added to Ryan’s Lib Dem Tweets aggregator, drop him an email at [email protected]

That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…