By James Matthews, Scotland Correspondent
Supporters of Scottish independence have staged a march and rally through the streets of Edinburgh.
Several thousand people joined SNP leader Alex Salmond and other leading members of the independence campaign for the event with a year to go until Scotland's referendum.
Blair Jenkins, chief executive of the 'Yes' campaign, which backs independence, told the gathering: "The biggest prize from a Yes next year is not that we will never again have Tory governments we didn't vote for - important though that is for the well-being of our society.
"Instead it is having the ability to make Scotland's great wealth, talent and resources work better for the people who live here.
"We all know that and independent Scotland has got what it takes to be a successful, prosperous and fairer country.
"All we need is the self-confidence to grab this wonderful, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to realise our potential as a great nation and to give everybody in Scotland a chance to share in our enormous wealth as part of an inclusive, outward-looking, proud and more socially-just country."
The event took place against a backdrop of opinion polls which have shown support for Scottish independence flatlining, with a comfortable majority in favour of Scotland staying in the United Kingdom.
Scots will vote in an independence referendum on September 18, 2014.
They'll be asked to give a Yes/No answer to the question: "Should Scotland be an independent country?"
Sheila Gilmore MP, a member of Better Together, the group campaigning for Scotland to remain within the United Kingdom, told Sky News: "We're certainly not going to say 'it's in the bag'.
"I think there's a lot of people who are genuinely unsure of how they're going to vote and I think both sides in this campaign are going to do their best to engage with that debate."
"It's best for the people if Scotland that we stay together as part of the UK and that's certainly what we'll be campaigning for.
"I've talked to a lot of people in my constituency and that's the view I'm getting - obviously, not from everybody - but from a large number of people."
"We take strength from being part of a larger entity. You can share economic disadvantages as well as the advantages and I think that's important to people."
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