Neither supporters nor opponents of independence have much to crow about. A YouGov poll suggests that, excluding those who do not know, 44% of Scots would vote to leave the UK today, almost the same as the 45% who voted that way ten years ago.

Emotions were running high in the run-up to the 2014 independence vote as Scotland's future dominated the international news agenda.

Jane Phillips was among the first people to vote in the Scottish independence referendum. A teacher from Dundee, she was second in line at her local polling station when it opened on the morning of 18 September 2014.

A majority of Scots would vote again to remain part of the United Kingdom, according to a new poll published on Tuesday, 10 years on from the last independence referendum.

This Wednesday is the anniversary of that great day exactly 10 years ago when my fellow Scots kept their heads and said “No” to the potentially disastrous plan by Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon to break up Britain and end the 307-year-old Union with England.