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  1. A view looking up at Inverness Castle. It is a sandstone building with turrets and battlements. There is an area of cut grass in front of the castle.

  2. Two women, one wearing a red jacket and the other purple fleece, walk down a rain-soaked jetty towards the Corran Ferry service's MV Corran. The vessel is painted white and black. There are mist-shrouded hills on the opposite shore.

  3. The front entrance to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness with signs showing numbers and colours of different zones inside the large building.

  4. A small church building with white washed walls and a slate roof. There are many old grave stones covered in mosses and lichens.

  5. The back of a police officer's jacket showing the word "police" in silver letters on a blue background.

  6. Houses and other buildings of Dingwall below rolling, tree-covered hills and, in the background, the Munro Ben Wyvis. In the foreground is the Cromarty Firth.

  7. Deep blue waters of Loch Ness at the ruins of Urquhart Castle. The castle is on the shores of the loch at the bottom of a wooded hill. There are hills on the opposite shore.

  8. A view of Stornoway harbour through leafy trees and bushes. There is a row of buildings along the harbour and two fishing boats tied up. One is painted white and blue and the other red and white. It is a sunny day, with clouds high in sky.

  9. A set of house keys with a black house-shaped fob. One of the keys is long and gold in colour and the other is a smaller silver key. The set has been photographed against a white background.

  10. An artist's impression of the proposed sauna. The watercolour-like image shows low wooden buildings set in an area of trees. The illustration includes a woman and a man with a dog.

  11. A voter places their vote into a black ballot box

  12. The house is of period design with a slate roof and cream-coloured walls. A gable end is covered in icy. It is set in a Highland landscape of rolling hills.

  13. Girl Ellie sits on a sofa with golden retriever Louie next to her. She has brown hair and is wearing a dark hoodie with a brown blanket over her legs

  14. A stone bridge with three arches over a river on Skye. In the background are the Cuillin mountains under a dramatic sky with the colours of purple and orange.

  15. The back of a police officer's jacket showing the word "police" in silver letters on a blue background.

  16. The car's windscreen is smashed in several places. The car's bonnet is red.

  17. A close up of an offshore wind turbine hub and blades with other turbines in the background. The sea below is flat and calm.

  18. Kate Forbes is standing outside on a sunny day. She has shoulder length brown hair, and she is smiling. She is wearing a white top with a floral pattern.

  19. A large stone three storey building with window shutters painted a rusty red colour

  20. A large blue tractor pulls a blue trailer, which is being filled with grain being cut by a yellow combine harvester. It is a sunny day and there are fluffy clouds in the blue sky.

  21. A UK Army Air Corps Apache helicopter flies low. It is dark green in colour and has a number of weapons and radar attachments.

  22. A contractor wearing protective clothing and a hard hat holds a spray bottle as he tackles rhododendron ponticum in the gorge.

  23. Roddy MacPherson, a man with glasses, balding with white hair and a white beard smiles into the camera while sitting indoors, in front of a brick wall.

  24. Blue police accident sign