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  1. A compilation picture showing Kate Nevens on the left, Lara Bird in the centre and Clive Lewis on the right.

  2. A bulldozer on a landfill site with a large area of mixed waste in the foreground.

  3. Several Police Scotland officers wearing high-visibility yellow vests stand close together. Body-worn cameras and radios are attached to the vests, and one officer is holding a baton.

  4. Gillian Mackay stands at a podium with Scottish Greens branding, addressing delegates on a conference stage illuminated with green lighting.

  5. Blair Jenkins, is wearing a dark suit, white shirt and purple tie. He is smiling and has his arm around actress Elaine C Smith who is laughing. Dennis Canavan stands to his right, and is smiling and clapping. They are standing in front of a cheering crowd of people with Yes campaign banners

  6. A girl with shoulder length dark hair and a stripy T-shirt sits next to two other children at a table with laptops.

  7. A woman holding a red sign reading "Andy, say no to Rosebank" at a protest

  8. The Berwickshire High School building, a modern structure with white front and and trees and a lawn and road in front

  9. Malcolm Offord standing up in the Scottish Parliament. He is wearing a blue suit over a white shirt with a blue tie. He has white hair and is wearing glasses with a dark black frame.

  10. John Swinney, who is bald with glasses, leans out a bus window with his left hand on the steering wheel

  11. Black and grey key boxes are attached to the wall next to the entrance to a block of flats, which are next to a tourist gift shop.

  12. an unidentified persons hands typing on a laptop keyboard

  13. Paris Gourtsoyannis - man in navy suit and white shirt, no tie, standing in front of a red double decker bus in London

  14. A woman with shoulder-length fair hair in a close-up. She is wearing a black jacket and floral scarf, with a wooden podium in the background

  15. A close up picture of a queue of cars and buses on a street in Edinburgh driving towards the camera.

  16. Sandy Easdale, Ralph Roberts and James Easdale pictured with one of their buses infront of a McGill's yard or depot

  17. John Swinney stands at a podium with SNP branding

  18. John Swinney, a bald man with glasses wearing a suit, pictured with his son Matthew - a young man in a suit smiling at his dad, and wife, Elizabeth Quigley, at the SNP conference

  19. John Swinney, who is bald man with glasses, wearing a black suit and purple tie with a saltire pin on it. He has his left hand held in front of him

  20. First Minister and party leader John Swinney poses for photographs alongside the party’s logo at the Scottish National Party (SNP) annual conference.

  21. A close-up portrait of a man indoors, shown from the shoulders up. The man has short dark hair, a full beard and moustache, and is wearing black rectangular glasses. The lenses reflect small points of light. A yellow lanyard with black lettering hangs around the neck over a dark zip-up top, with a light-coloured shirt visible underneath.