Election day is finally here. After a campaign that seems to have dragged on for aeons, it’s little black cross time at last.

Like all General Election campaigns, this one has veered between soap opera and the theatre of the absurd: we have had ‘milifans’ and Milibrand, the Grants Schapps Wikipedia saga, and Nick Clegg’s spiky reception at a hedgehog sanctuary.

And of course there are serious issues at play in the closest election for a generation: the economy, Britain’s place in Europe and the state of the Union itself will all be shaped by the way people vote today.

But of course, as MJ readers will be more aware than most, the General Election is not the only vote happening today. There are also local elections in the best part of 300 councils across the country including 161 councils that have all of their seats up for grabs.