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Pro and anti-Brexit demonstrations and marches are being held across the country, as the UK counts down to leaving the European Union.
The UK will officially leave the EU at 23:00 GMT, ending 47 years of membership.
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Brexiteers head towards Parliament Square in London. A clock counting down to the moment the UK leaves the EU will be projected on to Downing Street.
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Pro-Brexit supporters celebrate on Whitehall where the buildings will be lit up.
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Crowds gathered in London’s Parliament Square, ahead of a celebration of Brexit there later.
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Supporters of the EU held a procession through Whitehall to “bid a fond farewell” to the union.
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A pro-EU activist wearing a cape decorated with an EU flag design joins a rally organised by civil rights group New Europeans outside Europe House, central London.
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Pro-EU supporters lit candles in Smith Square in Westminster, London
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A pro-EU message is projected onto the cliffs in Ramsgate, southern England
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Customers Scott Jones and Laura Jones at the Sawmill Bar in South Elmsall, Yorkshire, where a Brexit party is being held throughout the day.
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Earlier, the prime minister held a cabinet meeting at the National Glass Centre, a museum and arts centre in Sunderland, the city that was the first to back Brexit when results were announced after the referendum.
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