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  1. A child wearing red, black and brown patterned woolly hat and a brown coat with a hood stands looking towards orange and pink fireworks.

  3. The gull has white, grey and black plumage. It is perched on top of blue painted wooden fence and is leaning forward with its yellow beak open.

  4. A visualisation of the previously unknown castle at Finlaggan.

  5. A mare and her foal graze on land next to water on South Uist.

  6. Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Billy Mckay claps his hands as he leaves a pitch while it pours with rain.

  7. Alistair, who has dark hair and is wearing a black t-shirt, is pictured with one of his young sons in a bathroom. Alistair is smiling.

  8. The A9 at Slochd. The road is single carriageway and there is a sign warning of the potential of rockfalls, another with the word "Slochd" in English and Gaelic.

  9. A hand in an aquamarine-coloured glove holds a yellow cloth against a white tiled wall.

  10. An aerial view of a housing development in Aviemore on a sunny day. The development is a mix of housing types, including flats and bungalows. Nearby there are more houses and other buildings among trees. There mountains on the horizon.

  11. A police car is parked in a street in Merkinch in Inverness. A piece of police tape is stretched across the street and over the front of the car. The street is lined by brown walled buildings and up the street is a railway bridge.

  12. A grey rectangular building in Inverness city centre. There are two levels and long thing windows. The entrance to the building is glass. There are bikes, bins and pedestrians on the pavement outside. It's a cloudy sky.

  13. A girl, her hands and some of her long hair just visible, types on a mobile phone. She is standing next to other people, who are blurred but still visibly using mobile phones.

  14. A hand holding a lump of dark meteorite. The rock is dark with silver spots all over its flat side. It is being held above a light wood table with a clear plastic lid on top of it.

  15. ICT players celebrating a win in a game in December 2023

  16. Leah McBain

  17. A group of Inverness Caledonian Thistle fans wearing the club's home kit colours in 2023. One of the fans, who is wearing sunglasses, has his arms raised in celebration.

  18. A close up of the back of a police officer's jacket showing the word "police" in capitals in silver letters on a dark blue background.

  19. An exterior view of Inverness' Rollerbowl. It is a single storey building with a green metal roof and brick wall. There is a large sign on the frontage that says "Rollerbowl" in capitals. The word "roller" is in white letters and "bowl" in pink. In front of the building is a large car park with a white car parked in it.

  20. 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

  21. A close up of a T plate with a green T, and then tourist written in black with a black border around the whole sign. The background of the plate is white. It is being held by a man wearing a white shirt. You cannot see his face.

  22. An aerial image of SaxaVord spaceport under construction on the island of Unst in Shetland. There is a launch pad with a launch tower on a flat area of land above sheer cliffs to the sea below.

  23. An exterior view of UHI House in Inverness.

  24. Numerous old rusty abandoned cars on a grassy field with woodland in the background.

  25. A side view of a police car. It has blocks of yellow and blue colours and the word "police" in blue letters on a white background. The side of the car also carries information on Police Scotland's social media accounts and website.