As dawn breaks on a day of elections across the UK, where do universities figure?
It is election day. Or more accurately, it is elections day, plural, with more than 400 separate ballots taking place across the UK today.
The highest-profile is the by-election in Hartlepool, where a Labour candidate has been victorious in every parliamentary election since 1964. According to internal polls, external polls and the word on the street, that is set to change today, with a Conservative gain on the cards.