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  1. A cobbled town street lined with shops and buildings, including a pharmacy, with a few pedestrians and a partly cloudy sky.

  2. A curved piece of metal approaches a white coral on the top left of the picture, with a grey basket below.

  3. John Swinney, who is bald and wearing glasses, holds a glass of whisky to his nose. He is looking straight at the camera, and wearing a dark suit, white shirt and purple tie.

  4. The famous Red Arrows jets - nine in total - fly from right to left across the picture in close formation with white smoke billowing from five of them at the back

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    A brightly coloured train with a yellow front and blue and green sides speeds through the leafy green countryside of the Borders with a few houses in the distance

  6. A woman standing in a train station, holding a small microphone and a train ticket looks into the camera

  7. workers in orange overalls operate heavy machinery

  8. A close-up image of a silver tap with one drop of water coming out of it towards the sink

  9. A man with brown hair wearing a dark tie, white shirt and dark suit stands in front of a blue wall with the North Sea Transition Authority's logos.

  10. A close-up image of a train ticket from Edinburgh to Glasgow Central, held in someone's hand. The ticket is orange and white.

  11. Commuters leaving Queens Street Train Station.

  12. A hand touching a silver tap with a single drop of water coming out of it

  13. An overhead view of the roadworks on the M8. The shot is taken of night, showing vehicles and cranes on an overpass section, with high-rise buildings on the left and trees on either side of the road, which is devoid of traffic.

  14. A water droplet coming out of a silver tap

  15. Silhouette of a woman travelling from the ground to the first floor on an escalator at Glasgow Airport. A blue and white sign reading "Departures" can be seen on the side of the escalator.

  16. An AI-generated image of the imagined woman behind the synthetic voice used on ScotRail trains. The woman has long red hair and wears a brown scarf and a green coat. She is stood against a blurred background that looks like the Scottish outdoors with the shadow of mountains and moorland. The image is AI generated and not real

  17. Thick smoke billows from the wreck of the Piper Alpha oil platform and a support platform can be seen in the background. The sea is calm.

  18. David Gorman in red boiler suit and yellow hard hat with the Shell logo is standing, smiling, in front of a wall of brown and cream wall lockers. He has a moustache and medium-length brown hair.

  19. Martin Dickie, who has dark cropped hair, standing staring at the camera with a serious expression on his face. A field and a grey wooden building with a glass window can be see in the background. He is wearing a dark blue t-shirt.

  20. A very dry river bed with only a little water in the middle and some buildings beyond a lawn in the distance.

  21. A general view of the inside of Edinburgh Waverley station. It has a concrete floor with a smattering of passengers wheeling suitcases and carrying bags on top. A large platform information board which is blue with white and yellow writing hangs from the roof in the foreground. A black screen with orange writing showing train information is in the background.

  22. An artist's impression of the aerial view of a planned new road bridge across Paisley Harbour.

  23. Three large salmon lie parallel to each other lengthways on a bed of ice. the top fish is being handled by someone wearing blue plastic gloves.

  24. A general view of the Glen Sannox CalMac ferry. The boat's hull is dark coloured with the name of the company and the name of the ship in white writing. The top of the boat is white with a small red section. There are a number of windows on the side with lights on and a row of flags hanging above the passeger deck. It is sitting on calm, dark water on a dark, grey day.