LABOUR MP Jim Murphy has suspended his street hustings tour amid allegations of a co-ordinated campaign to intimidate and bully people from supporting the No campaign.

He has called on Yes Scotland to "call off the attack dogs" and a letter has been sent from Better Together chief executive Blair MacDougall to his Yes Scotland counterpart Blair Jenkins asking him to call on those responsible to behave.

In his 100 Streets In 100 Days tour he has been standing on two IrnBru crates and taking questions and engaging in debate with opponents

Mr Murphy said "nationalist mobs" have been organised to gather where he is speaking and heckle and abuse him and undecided voters.

He said it is being co-ordinated on Yes facebook pages and at one event, in Kirkcaldy in Fife, he watched as those responsible for hurling abuse returned to a local Yes Scotland office.

Mr Murphy said he has taken the decision to suspend the tour for 72 hours to provide safety training to his staff and to take advice from the police.

He said: "The blame for this lies at Yes Scotland's door. They should stop this intimidation. I don't know how high up this goes".

He has released a video showing people wearing yes badges and waving Yes Scotland flags shouting and swearing calling him a traitor, a terrorist and a quisling.

He said other people who were asking him questions were abused and shouted down and a photographer and television journalists threatened with violence.

Mr Murphy said he was challenged to a fight in Aberdeen and again in Kilmarnock.

The last event ended with a man splattering his back with an egg before quickly walking off, with Mr Murphy calling after him "Is that the best you've got".

He said the egg incident was not a problem but he was more concerned with what he was called. He said: "We are not going to be silenced or intimidated by a noisy nationalist mob."

The MP said the abuse was from more than just a lone "idiot."

He said: "No political campaign can control the odd idiot. We would never dream of co-ordinating this type of activity.

"What is it they think they are trying to achieve?

"Undecided voters are shocked and turned off by it - all I can ask is to call the mobs off."

Mr Murphy released video clips of his tour where people were abusive and shouting insults at him and showed one incident where an English photographer was abused.

Mr Murphy told those involved it was "racism."

He released images and text from Facebook pages from Yes Kirkcaldy, Yes Fife, Yes Montrose and various individuals urging people to turn up and give him a "warm Yes welcome".

Yes campaigners said the actions of a few were not representative of the Yes Scotland campaign

A spokesman for Yes Scotland said: 'We condemn all forms of abusive, dangerous and offensive behaviour, whether it be Jim Murphy having eggs thrown at him, or Alex Salmond being harassed by a road rage motorist.

"For the most part, the independence debate has been conducted in a responsible, peaceful and enthusiastic manner with only a very small minority on both sides behaving badly.

"The eyes of the world are on Scotland and it is vital that everybody, regardless of which side of the debate they are on, helps to show off Scotland at its best.'

James Dornan SNP MSP for Cathcart, said: "It is the exact opposite of being co-ordinated. It is people at the margins of the campaign.

"I deprecate any violence or intimidation but there has to be an acceptance these incidents happen at the margins and they happen at both sides of the campaign.

"Let's not pretend this is what the Yes campaign is about. It is a peaceful, respectful, democratic campaign."

stewart.paterson@ eveningtimes.co.uk