EU referendum result will be announced in Manchester

The final result of the in/out referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union is to be announced in Manchester.

The historic result will be announced by the chair of the Electoral Commission, Jenny Watson, who is chief counting officer for the poll, promised by David Cameron before the end of 2017.

Ballot papers are to be counted overnight after polling stations close at 10pm on the day of the referendum, with a result expected in the early hours.

A venue in Manchester - yet to be identified - will be one of 12 count collation centres gathering together results from the 11 electoral regions of Britain and one in Northern Ireland. And the same venue will collect up the figures from the 12 regional centres to tot up the final result.