Ukip is to hold a pro-Union rally in Scotland just days ahead of the independence referendum.

UK party leader Nigel Farage will join Scottish party chairman Arthur Misty Thackery, Scottish MEP David Coburn and elected Ukip members from around the UK for the rally in Glasgow on September 12.

The Glasgow venue will not be announced until the last minute "for security purposes - given the history", Mr Thackery said.

Mr Farage was extricated from an Edinburgh pub in a police riot van after Radical Independence and anti-Ukip protesters barricaded him inside in May 2013.

A Better Together spokesman said: "Ukip have no part to play in our campaign. We are campaigning against nationalist politics of division and grievance."

Alex Salmond said: "If Mr Farage comes in a blaze of publicity in the next few days, as he says he's going to do, ignore him, he will go back to Clacton very soon."