Highlands & Islands

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  1. An aerial view looking down Loch Ness. The waters reflect the blue sky above.

  2. A large grassy playing field behind a tall wire fence at Inverness Royal Academy, with a blue sky and fluffy clouds.

  3. A man with short white hair and glasses smiles to the camera. He is in the Scottish Parliament foyer and wears a dark suit, white shirt and black tie.

  4. The two-storey inn has white-painted walls and a slate roof. Above a black front door is a sign with the words "Dores Inn". There is a garden with grass and a picnic bench.

  5. A CalMac ferry North Ayrshire's Ardrossan harbour.

  6. A large industrial site near Inverness with smoke rising from a chimney. There are several different buildings including a large bright red warehouse.

  7. A bottlenose dolphin breaches on a sunny day in the Moray Firth, Scotland. Photo taken from Chanonry Point, Black Isle. The village of Ardersier can be seen in the background.

  8. An aerial view of Fort William and Loch Linnhe on a sunny day in Lochaber. There are houses on a hillside among trees, and down towards the waterfront larger buildings including churches and the A82 road.

  9. 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.

  10. The school is behind a high stone wall. It is a low building with a peaked slate roof and cream-coloured walls with square windows.

  11. A generic image of a wind turbine. It has three blades and is white in colour. The turbine is pictured against a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

  12. A beautiful beach scene on Harris, with low, rounded hills in the background and a strip of turquoise sea. In the foreground are sand dunes with tufts of yellow grass.

  13. A woman holds a magnifying glass over an old letter showing the signatures of Mary, Queen of Scots and her husband Lord Darnley. There are other manuscripts laid out below the letter.

  14. A man takes an image on his phone of replica longship Draken Harald Hårfagre arriving at Inverness. There is a brown and white dog in the foreground.

  15. A close-up shot of a body-worn camera on a police officer's chest. It is a black rectangle that reads "Police Scotland Video & Audio".

  16. A mobile device showing internet apps including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp

  17. Two harbour seals sitting next to each other on a spot of land

  18. A waterfall with ragged rocks, surrounded by trees in Wester Ross in the Scottish Highlands

  19. A police accident sign with white lettering on a blue background next to a road

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

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

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

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