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Police have arrested six people after violence exploded between unionist and independence groups in Glasgow city centre.

Hundreds of people had gathered in the square earlier in the evening with union supporters draped in red, white and blue flags and rivals wearing Yes badges arguing against one another.

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A chorus of Rule Britannia was heard being sung before it was countered with a version of Flower of Scotland, the Scottish national anthem.

Roads around the square, which had hosted pro-independence parties in the days before the referendum, were closed as police dealt with the incident.

Trouble began when the union supporters fired a flare and charged, leaving officers having to pull the two groups apart.

Police said there were about 100 people in each of the two groups, and although there had been some "minor disorder" it had been dealt with by officers.

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Investigations were underway, and police revealed there could be more people arrested.

While social media reports indicated that trouble continued into the early hours of the morning, police said groups had dwindled to sets of two and three people by around 1am.

BBC journalist Andrew Neil used Twitter to criticise people he said were posting images from the London riots in a bid to pass them off as Glasgow.

"Some dishonest numpties using pics from Tottenham riots to claim this is Glasgow tonight. Yes and No should unite to condemn," he wrote.

Channel Four reporter Alex Thomson described the scene as pro-Union supporters made their voices heard.

The arrests come just hours after Scotland voted to stay part of the UK, by 55% to 45%. There were 2,001,926 votes for No to 1,617,989 votes for Yes - on a record 84.5% turnout.