Brexit decision day: a last-minute primer as voters cast ballots to leave EU or stay

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When the school buildings and church halls traditionally used as polling stations in Britain opened for business at 7am local time on Thursday and voters began arriving to register their verdicts in the referendum on whether the UK should remain part of the EU, first reports reflected the kind of differences this bitter campaign has accentuated.

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