North's voters go to polling stations for 7th time in 3 years

Polling is underway in the North as the British general election gets underway. It is the seventh time in three years voters in the North have cast a ballot.

Update 3pm: Political leaders in the North have cast their ballots in the British General Election.

DUP leader Arlene Foster voted near her home today in Brookeborough, Co Fermanagh and later tweeted: