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People living in every council area of Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire voted for the United Kingdom to leave the EU in yesterday's historic referendum, external.
Lee Thomas
Newsreader, BBC Radio Stoke
Rounding up your afternoon's headlines on the EU referendum vote
- Campaigners fighting for the UK to leave the European Parliament have been celebrating in Staffordshire and Cheshire after the counties voted overwhelmingly to leave
- The managing director of a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm says he "gutted" and concerned about the future after the UK voted to leave the European Union
- Crewe-based car maker Bentley Motors says it is going to work with the government after the European Union referendum vote "to secure a positive future" for the firm
Meanwhile news of the European Union referendum vote appears to have reached the animals at Staffordshire-based Peak Wildlife Park.
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Phil McCann
Cheshire Political Reporter, BBC News
The vote in Cheshire East was almost a microcosm of the vote across the UK.
Leave won by 51% against nearly 49% for remain.
This shows a borough as divided as the UK – but the leave vote will have come as much from working class communities in places like Crewe as it will from more affluent parts of the countryside.
Giles Latcham
BBC Midlands Today
This lunchtime on Midlands Today, we'll be reflecting and analysing the way the West Midlands voted in the European Union referendum - and the fall-out from the vote.
We'll criss-cross the region and we'll also hear the questions now being faced after the vote by farmers and food and drink exporters.
James Bovill
Staffordshire Political Reporter, BBC News
A Stoke-on-Trent Labour MP who backed the Remain campaign has tweeted this morning that he'll "work to unite" the country following the vote in favouring of leaving the European Union
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John Acres
BBC Radio Stoke
The managing director of a Stoke-on-Trent pottery firm says he "gutted" and concerned about the future after the UK voted to leave the European Union.
Paul Farmer is in charge of Wade Ceramics and told BBC Stoke he's having to wait and see about the impact the result will have on his firm.
BBC Politics
BBC Politics
Labour MPs Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey have sent a letter to John Cryer MP, chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, submitting a motion of no confidence in leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The letter calls for a discussion at the next meeting of the PLP at 18:00 BST on Monday 27 June. This ballot has no formal constitutional force, but would be a significant expression of the lack of confidence of Labour MPs in their leader.
Follow all the reaction on the BBC Politics live page.
Lamont Howie
Reporter, BBC Radio Stoke
Crewe-based car maker Bentley Motors says it is going to work with the government after the European Union referendum vote "to secure a positive future" for the firm.
The company says in a statement it's too early to work out the exact impact after the UK voted to leave the EU.
But it says "our cars will continue to be built with the same passion and dedication".
Kay Crewdson
Weather presenter, BBC Midlands Today
If you want to get a weather update at any other time you can head to the BBC website.
Burton MP Andrew Griffiths has vowed to fight "tooth and nail" to protect jobs in Burton and East Staffordshire following the country's decision to leave the European Union, external.
Image source, Burton MailThe BBC's Simon Gompertz looks at how the UK's vote to leave the EU might affect British holidaymakers.
James Bovill
Staffordshire Political Reporter, BBC News
To remind you if you're joining us late how the referendum vote went in Staffordshire - the county echoed the national trend in voting to leave the European Union.
More than 65% of voters in Stoke-on-Trent turned up at polling stations with 81,563 backing Leave, compared with 36,027 supporting Remain. Nationally, 52% of Britain voted for Brexit.
Conservative MP, Michael Fabricant, for Lichfield said: "Brexit is clear for our future prosperity and independence."
But a remain voter told BBC Radio Stoke he is "disappointed and angry".
Allen Cook
BBC Local Live
You've been giving your reaction to the result of the European Union referendum vote on the BBC Radio Stoke Facebook page, external.
Image source, ReutersJack Cunnington posted, external: "I've voted out because now they have no-one to hide behind. We are going to have to kick-start manufacturing, we are going to have to buy British. Only Britain can make Britain great."
Ali Newcombe wrote, external: "I said it was going to be close before it all started but I thought it would be for Remain - but I'm so so so elated it's leave that's what I wanted".
While Anna O'Leary added, external: "Gutted that the older generation let us down my generation will be left to clear up the mess once you've all gone".
BBC News UK
How did the Leave camp clinch victory in the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU after what was a very closely fought contest?
Use your postcode to find the result in your area on the BBC website.
Jack Dowling
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
"This isn't what they wanted" - the head of a Stoke-on-Trent based body representing the pottery industry has far from welcomed the result of the EU referendum.
With the country voting to leave the European Union, it's a blow to the chief executive of the British Ceramic Confederation, Laura Cohen, who was backing the Remain campaign.
Quote MessageWe are briefing our members, this isn't what they wanted - there's going to be uncertainty for some time, we've seen the start of market uncertainty, there's certainly going to be political and economic uncertainty."
Laura Cohen, Chief executive of the British Ceramic Confederation
BBC Politics
A wave of shock is reverberating around Europe as countries across the EU and beyond digest the decision by UK voters to leave the European Union.
BBC correspondents across the continent report on the reaction and the likely effect the result will have.
Emma Thomas
Journalist, BBC Radio Stoke
The Conservative MP for Stafford has told BBC Radio Stoke "these are difficult times".
Jeremy Lefroy was speaking after the UK voted to leave the European Union, followed by the prime minister announcing he is to step down by October.
He told the BBC he had not made up his mind on who should succeed David Cameron.
Quote MessageI wish in many ways he hadn’t (resigned) but I must say I'm not surprised in the sense that he's an honourable man and he felt that he'd made a passionate case for staying in and the results had gone against the case."
Jeremy Lefroy, MP for Stafford
Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor
David Cameron's resignation likely means the end of the Cheshire MP George Osborne's term as chancellor, as it does of their "Camborne" partnership.
The MP for Tatton has had a particularly bruising referendum campaign.
Image source, PAHe had been seen as many people in Westminster as the heir apparent to Cameron. But the vote for Brexit changes that.
A cunning politician, he will not run for leadership unless he feels he has a real chance of winning
