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

  2. A view of the front of the Highland cinema. It has attractive stone work, large windows and a red corrugated iron roof.

  3. A spotty cup containing tea. A woman's hands are holding the cup, which sits on a table. Her arms are visible but not her head. She appears to be sitting on a green sofa.

  4. A gull with white and grey feathers and a bright yellow beak stands on a post against a blue sky.

  5. Stephanie Keenan is standing in an Inverness street holding one her children in her arms. Behind them is a parked bus.

  6. A painting showing what the reptile might have looked like. It is lizard-like and has its toothy mouth open wide. It is in an area of vegetation.

  7. A view across Loch Ness towards white-walled houses in the village of Dores. Behind the village rises a steep hillside covered in woodland and commercial forestry. There are ripples on the surface of the loch.

  8. Roy MacGregor is an older man with white hair and glasses. He is wearing a black, woollen coat and scarf and standing in the outdoors.

  9. A view through tree across houses and other buildings of Stornoway. Some of the properties are two and three storeys high and white walled. There is a harbour and the sea in the harbour is flat calm. Sunlight catches the tops of some of the buildings.

  10. The former hospital building is a period brick-built property with a modern extension. A driveway leads up to the hospital and the site is surrounded by woodland. A sign on a brick wall has the words: "St Vincent's Hospital".

  11. A close up of the gravoir, an ornately carved piece of red deer antler. The carving is of what looks like a hooded figure holding a book. Dr Alice Blackwell is holding the gravoir in protective purple gloves. Dr Blackwell's face is just out of focus.

  12. Inverness Royal Academy is a large box shaped building with black cladding.

  13. A Soay sheep with a rough brown fleece standing on a grassy area.

  14. two female runners in ballet skirts and vests do a dance pose as they run

  15. A blue outdoor sign with the word "QinetiQ" in white letters. There is a Union flag flying in the background.

  16. Connie Ramsay, in white, is competing against an opponent dress in blue.

  17. The Port of Cromarty is a large industrial area in the sea in the Cromarty Firth. Large turbine towers are laid out on huge, square-shaped quay. There are boats, and an oil rig, in the firth.

  18. A small industrial estate with cars and vans parked in the car park. It is surrounded by grass with hills far in the background

  19. The mascots look dinosaurs and are grey in colour and wearing Inverness Caledonian Thistle kit. They are sitting in a boat at Dochgarroch, near Inverness.

  20. An abandoned campsite at Loch Morlich in Cairngorms. There is the remains of a fire, with burnt branches, a sofa with white cushions and a tent with rubbish next to it. Beyond the loch are mountains of the Cairngorms.

  21. Iain Sinclair, wearing a yellow swim cap and a blue fleeced jacket as he comes face to face with his friend Scott Hastings.

  22. A visualisation of how the roundhouse would look at Gairloch Museum. The roundhouse has a conical, turf roof above stone walls. It is in an area of long grass and the sea is behind it.

  23. The Cape Wrath trail from Kinloch Hourn to Inverie on the Knoydart Peninsula, one of the remotest wilderness areas in Scotland

  24. Kara Hanlon is standing beside a swimming pool wearing blue Western Isles team colours. She is holding Island Games medal that she won at the Island Games 2025 in Orkney