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David Cameron delivered an emotion resignation speech this morning after Britain voted to leave the European Union. The Prime Minister called the referendum a "giant democratic exercise", perhaps the biggest in our history, after more than 33 million people had their say. He said: "The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered. "It was not a decision that was taken lightly, not least because so many things were said by so many different organisations about...

A University of the West of England project that generates electricity from urine has been installed at Glastonbury Festival. The ‘Pee Power ‘project, featuring the Dunster House Emergency Pissoire Superstructure, has been set up at the festival to highlight its application in urban or rural locations that do not have easy access to electricity and adequate sanitation, such as refugee camps. Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos, Director of the Bristol Bio-Energy Centre, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, at UWE Bristol said: “The festival presents us with the...

The gender gap in the engineering sector is wider than ever, despite many other industries witnessing a significant increase in female participation. Engineering is the subject with the biggest gap in male to female ratios and these figures aren’t improving. Just 9 percent* of the engineering workforce is female. Furthermore, only 6 percent* of registered engineers and technicians (i.e. CEng, IEng, EngTech) are women. Newly released survey data has indicated that the lack of women opting for STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and...

While everyone else has been busy mudslinging, Wikipedia has produced a very balanced list of everyone who has made an endorsement during this EU referendum: Endorsements in the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 Here are some highlights... BREMAIN BREXIT International Politicians President of the USA Prime Minister of Canada Prime Minister of Norway President of China Prime Minister of India Prime Minister of Japan Prime Minister of Bangladesh Prime Minister of New Zealand NATO G7 G20 The European Union Donald Trump Vladimir Putin...

By Ben Gelblum, Contributing Editor @BenGelblum Rio Ferdinand has joined former England football stars David Beckham and John Barnes to announce he will be voting for the UK to remain in the EU today. Announcing that this would be the first time he has ever voted, in a blistering Facebook Post, Rio Ferdinand said he would be voting for the country he wants his three children to grow up in, and warned: "if Leave wins, it’ll be an endorsement of the...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The referendum campaign sinks lower and lower and I think many would just like it to be over now. Now a plane flying a Vote Leave banner flew over Trafalgar Square as Jo Cox's husband paid an emotional tribute to her. The event this afternoon was arranged on what would have been her 42nd birthday, until she was brutal murdered last week. Mr Cox had been telling crowds his wife ‘lived for her beliefs’ and...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor After all the posturing and the praise for the fish industry in the face of EU regulations, would Boris kiss one of his beloved fish, well we reckon he didn't. He was at Billingsgate market mopping up the final few potential votes, but he couldn't do it, he was close, but yet so far, will that reflect tomorrow's vote? Watch video here

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A mystery man named only as Laurence Taylor took out a full page advert in the Metro newspaper to make the case for Remain. Mr Taylor is “fed up” and demands people discuss immigration “based on facts not fear” – he claims he paid for the ad out of his own pocket, rich man, or maybe the advertising prices have dipped at the paper, maybe a bit of both perhaps. The advert shows a simple pie chart...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor John Barnes, former England and Liverpool footballer and occasional rapper shot down Michael Gove down for claiming that he backs Brexit. Following news Beckham supporting Remain, the Justice Secretary claimed on Sky that, "there are lots of people like Sol Campbell and John Barnes" who want Out. A few hours later, Barnes called up the news network to contradict Gove. Turns out if he very much for Remain, oh dear Gove, oh dear. Watch video...