1. General Election News Story Research
BBC
Party leaders have been casting their votes in the United Kingdom
general election.
Polls opened at 07:00 BST at around 50,000 polling stations across the UK,
which will remain open until 22:00.
A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 50 million people
registered to vote.
As well as the general election, there are more than 9,000 council seats being
contested across 279 English local authorities.
Mayors will also be elected in Bedford, Copeland, Leicester, Mansfield,
Middlesbrough and Torbay.
In Bedfordshire, a referendum on a council tax increase is taking place.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage, Labour leader Ed Miliband, Greens leader Natalie
Bennett, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, Conservative leader David Cameron,
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood have all
cast their votes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32618577
The Guardian

2. Labour has moved into a wafer-thin one-point lead in the final
pre-election Guardian/ICM poll, leaving the country on a knife-
edge with the markets starting to jitter.
On Wednesday, ICM released provisional numbers which
showed the two main parties deadlocked on 35% each. But the
telephone fieldwork continued into evening, and the final
figures – based on the full sample of 2,000 interviews – find
Labour holding steady on 35%, while the Conservatives slip to
34%.
An 11% share for Ukip, 9% for the Lib Dems and 5% for the
Scottish Nationalists are all confirmed from the provisional poll,
but in the final tranche of interviews the Greens picked up a
point, climbing from 3% to 4%. The difference is still within the
margin of error, but every poll is now indicating a hung
parliament and the tightest election in decades.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/07/labour-one-point-lead-
tories-final-icm-poll