UK politicians ponder Scotland's future
Politicians on both sides of the argument are to consider the best way forward for Scotland in the wake of voters rejecting independence.
The SNP is contemplating a change of leadership after First Minister Alex Salmond announced he is to stand down.
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to speak in Fife on the lessons to be drawn from Thursday's referendum.
And delegates are to start gathering for the Labour conference in Manchester.
Salmond, 59, is Scotland's longest-serving first minister, having held the post since the SNP won power at the Scottish Parliament in May 2007.
He has also served as leader of the SNP for a total of 20 years.
He announced on Friday that he would resign as SNP leader at the party's conference in November, before standing down as first minister when the party elects its next leader in a membership ballot.
Salmond told journalists there were a "number of eminently qualified and very suitable candidates" to replace him, with his deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, seen as a clear favourite.
He will stay on as MSP for Aberdeenshire East, and described serving Scotland as first minister as the "privilege of my life".
The big question for the nationalists is how they pick themselves up from Thursday's referendum defeat, but will take some solace from the fact that 45% of voters backed them, including many supporters of other parties.
GORDON BROWN AND ALEX SALMOND
Scottish Labour will also be seeking to make ground on the SNP after helping to win a "No" vote on Thursday.
Brown has been credited in some quarters with helping to stall the "Yes" surge in the latter stages of the campaign. He has even hinted he might stand to become a Labour MSP at the Scottish Parliament.
He is due to speak in Dalgety Bay later about the importance of national unity following the heated referendum campaign.
Meanwhile, Labour leader Ed Miliband is due to arrive in Manchester ahead of the Labour conference, where delegates will be chewing over the referendum outcome.
Miliband has made it clear that he is not likely to sign up to Prime Minister David Cameron's proposals to give new powers to English MPs.
The prime minister is proposing a system where only MPs from England would vote on English issues in Parliament.
He has also said the three main Westminster parties will deliver their campaign pledge to boost the powers of Scotland's devolved parliament.
The prime minister has asked Lord Smith of Kelvin, who led Glasgow's staging of the Commonwealth Games, to oversee the process to take forward the commitments, with new powers over tax, spending and welfare to be agreed by November, and draft legislation published by January.
The prime minister has also spoken of the implications for the other nations of the UK, and said "millions of voices of England must also be heard".
Miliband has said Labour also wanted "significantly greater devolution of power in England", but said it was important not to offer a "knee jerk reaction".
In a statement released on Friday, the Queen said Scotland's vote to stay in the Union was "a result that all of us throughout the United Kingdom will respect".
On referendum night, 28 of Scotland's 32 local authority areas voted in favour of staying in the UK.
Glasgow, Scotland's largest council area and the third largest city in Britain, voted in favour of independence by 194,779 to 169,347.
But the 75% turnout in Glasgow was the lowest in the country, and hoped for breakthroughs in other traditional Labour strongholds such as South Lanarkshire, Inverclyde and across Ayrshire never materialised for the nationalists.
Edinburgh, the nation's capital, clearly rejected independence by 194,638 to 123,927 votes, while Aberdeen City voted "No" by a margin of more than 20,000 votes.
Across Scotland, 84.6% of registered voters cast their ballot in the referendum - a record for a national election.
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