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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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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office in central London is lit up in the colours of the Union Jack.
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In Brussels, the UK flag is removed from the European Council building.
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It is taken down and folded up outside the European Parliament building in the city.
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Brexiteers headed towards Parliament Square in London.
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Crowds gathered earlier on Friday in London’s Parliament Square ahead of Brexit celebrations there later.
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Pro-Brexit supporters wearing Union Jack-themed clothes pose for a photograph in Parliament Square, where Leave Means Leave’s celebrations are happening.
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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 light candles in Smith Square in Westminster.
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A pro-EU message is projected onto the cliffs in Ramsgate in Thanet, Kent.
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St Andrew’s House, a Scottish Government building, in Edinburgh, is illuminated in the colours of the European flag.
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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 2016 referendum.
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