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  1. A train leaving Wick train station. 'Welcome to Wick' is above the station.

  3. John Swinney, who is bald with glasses, in a business suit

  4. Workers wearing orange boiler suits examine equipment on board the Rosebank FPSO

  5. Server cabinets line a modern data centre illuminated by blue neon lighting.

  6. Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander, Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh and Chancellor John Healey during a visit to Shell UK's St Fergus Gas Terminal in Aberdeenshire

  7. The Petrojarl Rosebank, a floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) moored above the Rosebank oil field in the North Atlantic

  8. The Rest and Be Thankful road from the air

  9. Sir Ian Wood in a shirt and tie, smiling at the camera.

  10. Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander, Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh and Chancellor John Healey during a visit to Shell UK's St Fergus Gas Terminal in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. They are wearing orange high-vis jackets and green hard hats, as they walk past gas terminal infrastructure in the rain.

  11. Gas Platform in the North Sea

    • UK
    A split screen image. On the left, James Cook wearing orange high-vis overalls. On the right, a view of a platform on Rosebank.

    • UK
    A composite of the front pages of the Metro and the Times on 22 October 2026.

  14. The Jackdaw gas platform and drilling rig in the North Sea.

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    A group of protesters holding up various signs, protesting against Jackdaw gas field drilling.

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    Split-screen showing Jackdaw gas field on the left, and editor Simon Jack on the right

  17. Aerial view of the Jackdaw site, with a blue BBC Verify frame around it.

  18. Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander, Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh and Chancellor John Healey during a visit to Shell UK's St Fergus Gas Terminal in Aberdeenshire

  19. Glenn Campbell - bald man with dark green jacket, standing in front of a chain linked fence

  20. An aerial view of the Jackdaw site inside a blue Verify frame

  21. A close up shot of a lit ring on a gas hob

  22. A mostly yellow-painted gas platform and allied grey rig stand in calm blue seas with a clear blue sky behind them. It is sunny.

  23. Glasses of whisky on a wooden-topped table

  24. Close-up of shallow water with patches of white foam swirling on the surface, surrounding a small mossy mound with a young plant growing from it, and bits of debris caught in the current.