Watch: War veterans lament leaving EU in emotional Brexit Day message beamed on to Dover cliffs

Veterans of the Second World War have had their emotional Brexit Day message in support of the EU beamed on to the White Cliffs of Dover.

The Kent landmark was lit up early on Friday by the faces of Stephen Goodall and Sidney "Sid" Daw, who lamented the UK's imminent departure from the European Union on Friday night in a heartfelt video.

The message was projected on to the same stretch of coastline that provided a welcoming sight for soldiers returning from Dunkirk in 1940.

After the touching words from the two veterans, the video ended with the stars on the EU flag slowly disappearing.

With just one star remaining, the line read: "This is our star. Look after it for us."

The message comes after a poll found that many Remainers are still refusing to accept Brexit.

The video was the brainchild of Led By Donkeys, a group of four anti-Brexit activist fathers famed for their giant billboards of politicians' tweets.

In the tribute - also translated into French and German - Mr Goodall spoke of his sadness about Brexit.

The 97-year-old, who served in the Army for 32 years, said: "I feel really depressed at the idea that we are leaving Europe because it has meant so much to me.

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"I like to be called a European. And the feeling that one has of comradeship as one goes round Europe is really quite something."

He added: "At my age I shan't be living much longer but I hope that, for the sake of my children and my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren, that England, Britain will move back to be much closer to Europe than what we have done now."

The message was shown just after midnight on Friday.

Mr Daw, 95, fought in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany during the war.

He said: "I feel very, very sad about it all because we don't know which way things are going."

Appealing to fellow Europeans on the continent, he said: "Look from your side to this side, see these white cliffs, and we're looking across at you feeling we want to be together and we will be together before long, I'm sure."

Ben Stewart, 45, one of the organisers from Led By Donkeys, said the group wanted to do something to mark the day.

He said: "It was a real honour to put their words up there.

"We really want people in Europe to know that the display that they saw of a kind of crass Nigel Farage and Brexit Party MEPs goading the European Parliament is not the country that we live in and not the country that we love.

"There seems no better choice of people for the nation that we are than Steve and Sid."