Andrew Black
Political reporter, BBC Scotland

Speaking at the Ingliston count, Cat Boyd, of the Radical Independence grassroots campaign, says they had organised buses to get people to polling stations, but found that when she was in Glasgow's Drumchapel area earlier, many people said they'd been out to vote already.

She says there's been "phenomenal" support for independence in communities that the polling companies don't reach.

Lib Dem MSP for Shetland, Tavish Scott, told the BBC: "The sheer weight of the vote is at a scale that none of us who have stood at elections over a number of years have ever seen before.

"That's a good sign but we are therefore in uncharted waters."

Keir Murray
BBC Sport Scotland

Laurens Zhang from Kilmacolm has been fascinated by the whole voting and counting process.

The 16-year-old pupil at St Columba's voted "No" today.

He said: "The atmosphere in the sixth-year common room was amazing. Everyone was buzzing. It's good to see so many young people taking an interest in politics."

Former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband tweets, external: Wonderful to hear of 80/90 per cent turnouts in #indyref. Scots have taught us all a lesson in democracy.

Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael tells the BBC: "It is now for the English to have the debate that we've had in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland."

This could mean an English Parliament, city regions or regional assemblies, but it is "not for me to tell them", he adds.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson sounds a note of caution about polls, arguing that opinion pollsters might be the "losers" in the referendum campaign.

"They haven't had a touch or a feel for Scotland," she tells the BBC. "They've tried to weight it to party politics and it just doesn't work."

Willie Johnston
BBC Scotland

Counting officer Alex Haswell tells 175 counters in Dumfries they're "taking part in history" #indyref

Gavin Hewitt
Europe editor

Flemish nationalists have been on the streets of Brussels putting candles down on the Scottish flag. There is less enthusiasm for independence among EU politicians, however.

Ian Hamilton
BBC Scotland

Black is clearly in fashion at the North Ayrshire count!

SNP MSP Fiona Hyslop told the BBC the people of Scotland had been on a journey.

She said: "There are people who have voted for the first time, people in their fifties and sixties. The turnout will be something quite staggering.

"In terms of what that means, politics has changed as a result of the referendum."

To quote BBC Reporter Sam Poling at Midlothian: "It's a plateau of tension."

Labour MP Douglas Alexander said the story of the early part of the evening was the "enormous turnout".

"We should all feel both extraordinary pride and a certain humility when it comes to a turnout of this scale because it is literally unprecedented," he said.

"Predictions at this stage need to be taken with a barrel of salt not just a punch of salt."

David Currie
Reporting Scotland presenter

Contrary to what Ruth Davidson said the turnout for Friocheim is not 100 per cent and there were only two ballot boxes #scotlanddecides

Glasgow City Council:, external All 483 ballot boxes from Glasgow polling stations have arrived at The Emirates arena for #indyref

Image source, Glasgow City COuncil

BBC Newsgathering Producer Suzanne Lord, external: 2 Barra ballot boxes started their journey to Lewis to be counted. Local lifeboat collected them. Officials say turnout 95% approx #indyref

Labour MP Diane Abbott, speaking to the BBC in Westminster, says that "Labour MPs will be relieved that it looks like we're going to squeak through" with a narrow "No" victory.

Long queue of cars full of ballot boxes waiting outside the Lasswade Centre at the Midlothian count.

The BBC's Laura Bicker reports that 90% of the postal votes have been returned in Edinburgh.

Full official turnout figures for the city will not be known for at least two more hours.

Conservative MP John Redwood tells the BBC's Andrew Neil at Westminster that, if there is a "No" victory, "every power that goes to Scotland must be matched by the same power coming to England".

Andrew Black
Political reporter, BBC Scotland

Veteran Lib Dem politician Lord Steel, who's at the Ingliston count looking dapper as usual, tells me a young voter came up to him in the street in Selkirk this morning.

He was on the way the polling station but still had no idea how he was going to vote.

"It was an experience I've never had in my long years in politics," Lord Steel says, adding: "I made a last-minute conversion."