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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 row of tenement flats on a hill with a line of parked cars outside. A lone man can be seen crossing the road

  3. A grey and white hospital building on an overcast grey day

  4. Donald Trump, with fair combed back hair, shakes hands with John Swinney, who is bald with glasses. They are both wearing dark suits.

  5. Scottish Green co-leaders Ross Greet and Gillian Mackay at podiums in front of Green background.

  6. Donald Trump, wearing a dark suit and red tie, standing in the oval office across the room from John Swinney, wearing a tartan tie and suit. Peter Mandelson is next to him.

  7. A blue gate at Ferguson shipyard with the words Ferguson Marine cut out

  8. Several demonstrators standing outside the Scottish Parliament holding placards supporting the Jims group

  9. 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.

  10. A prison guard is visible across an open plan ground floor area of a prison with a balcony above, and cells leading off from that.

  11. Kevin Stewart, a bald man with glasses, in the Scottish Parliament. He is wearing a grey suit, white shirt and red tie.

  12. Five greyhounds sprinting round a track at high speed. Each dog is wearing a coloured jacket with a number on it. The jackets are white, blue, red, orange and black. The dogs' paws are kicking up sand as they run.

  13. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (a man with dark hair and a red tie, in a white shirt) posing with Sir Keir Starmer (a man with greying hair and glasses, wearing a dark suit with a blue shirt, no tie) at a Labour party rally - everyone is clapping and smiling, and many are holding up placards reading "change".

  14. Douglas Alexander sits in a BBC newsroom, he wears a grey suit, cream shirt and burgundy tie

  15. Douglas Alexander wearing a dark suit and a light blue shirt and dark blue tie

  16. A woman draped in a saltire plays a flute at the front of a crowd of pro-independence marchers

  17. Douglas alexander walking in suit

  18. A picture of a pro-independence march from the 2014 referendum campaign; a group of people waving saltire flags and holding up placards reading "Yes"

  19. Colin Smyth, a man with flat brown hair, while wearing a suit, white shirt and purple tie and multicoloured lanyard

  20. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, he had short, grey hair and is wearing glasses, a dark suit and green tie.

  21. John Swinney, who is bald and wearing glasses, speaks at a podium in front of a large saltire. He is wearing a dark suit, white shirt and purple tie, with his right hand in front of his body with his fingers fanned out.

  22. John Swinney stands in front of blue and white Saltire flag, he is bald with glasses and wearing a dark suit.

  23. Orla Sonvico smiling at the camera. She has long brown hair and is wearing a black top. There is a wall and an old sandstone building in the distance.