Suzanne Allan
BBC Scotland

The counting staff at Perth and Kinross are still smiling - even though it's 3.29am.

"No" wins by 27,329 to 27,243.

That's 50.1% to 49.9%.

The total ballot was 54,601 and the turnout 87.4%.

John Curtice
Professor of politics at Strathclyde University

Latest turnout expectation has crept up slightly to 85% making it even more clearly the largest turnout in Scotland since the introduction of the mass franchise.

John Curtice
Professor of politics at Strathclyde University

Contributions from BBC reporters at the counts in both Midlothian and Aberdeen - both places where we would expect the result to be not dissimilar to that of Scotland as a whole - suggest the "No" side is quite comfortably ahead.

If these reports are correct then the expectation of a "No" victory is likely to be fulfilled.

Aileen Clarke
BBC Scotland

tweets, external: Yes camp here at Emirates seem a bit more confident they've taken Glasgow but not sure if it will be by a big enough margin to matter. No camp not quite so hopeful.

John Curtice
Professor of politics at Strathclyde University

There have been two quite remarkable and contributions to the BBC's programmes from Conservative spokespeople this evening.

First of all Ruth Davidson, who once described the 2012 Scotland Act as a "line in the sand that should not be crossed" has indicated that Scotland requires considerable further devolution.

Meanwhile Lord Forsyth, once one of the principal opponents of the Scottish Parliament, has now declared that he thinks Holyrood should be given even more devolution than it has been promised by any of the Unionist parties so far.

It looks as though one consequence of this campaign is to have brought the Scottish Conservatives very firmly into the devolution camp.

Chris Mason
Political correspondent, BBC News

tweets, external: In Dundee the fire alarm was triggered for a third time but stopped immediately.

John Curtice
Professor of politics at Strathclyde University

Former SNP MSP Andrew Wilson has just declared that he thinks the SNP should get involved in talks about more devolution for Scotland, should indeed Scotland vote "No" in the referendum.

This is the first sign that the SNP may well try to use their vote in this referendum to push the demand for more devolution yet further, rather than stand aside as they did on the occasion of the Scottish constitutional convention.

Andrew Black
Political reporter, BBC Scotland

The final lot of postal ballots have arrived at the Edinburgh count.

Simon Dedman, BBC Scotland News

"Yes" campaign say they agree with "No" figures. A 20% sample shows "No" at 55% of the vote and "Yes" at 45%.

Kheredine Idessane
BBC Scotland

The East Lothian declaration is now around 15 minutes away. They're now onto the adjudication of spoiled ballot papers. All other votes counted.

Keir Murray
BBC Sport Scotland

The counting officer and referendum agents are in deep conversation. It looks like it's extremely close between "Yes" and "No".

Former SNP MSP Andrew Wilson said the direction of travel seems to be towards "No".

He said: "There is a clear consensus in Scotland, if not for "Yes" in this vote, then for more powers for the Scottish Parliament.

"We need to make sure the powers promised in haste at the end of this campaign are driven through to deliver not just paltry new powers, not just reluctant modest new powers, but the very substantial maximum new powers that people want to see.

"Albeit, it appears from tonight, within the continuing United Kingdom."

Catriona Renton
BBC Scotland

A trend amongst spoilt papers here is "No" written in the "No" box which is being taken to be a double negative but doesn't count as one for "Yes" either.

Counters working methodically and hoping to make the East Dunbartonshire declaration at approximately 04:00.

Fiona Stalker
BBC Scotland reporter

The "No" campaign in Aberdeen are now confident of victory. At the start of the night they thought it was too close to call.

They are now estimating 58% for "No". Privately the "Yes" campaign are admitting that it does look like "No" is ahead in Aberdeen.

Both sides are saying the vote is split by wealth. Better-off areas or middle class areas appear to be voting "No" and predominantly the less well-off areas are voting "Yes".

Morag Kinniburgh
BBC News Scotland

Conservative MSP John Lamont says he's "very confident" whilst Paul Wheelhouse SNP MSP is "disappointed" with how he thinks the vote is going in Scottish Borders.

Co-convenor of the Scottish Greens Patrick Harvie, external: Well the result looks disappointing. But losing the energy & motivation of people who've become re-engaged in politics would be even worse.

The pace is quickening now on the local results front - after all we have now entered the frenetic two-hour declaration period.

If you think you might get a little lost as to whether your council has declared yet, go to our local authority pages, where you will see in images, words and video what is going on.

Lib Dem MP Sir Menzies Campbell tells the BBC: "It's not for the Scots to tell the English what form their devolution should take. That is for the English to decide."

He argues that the "concentration of resources in the south east is simply not sustainable in the long term".