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  1. Mhairi Black, a young woman with short loose brown hair, smiles into the camera against a grey backdrop. She is wearing a black hoody.

  2. A woman leans over a table where a large pile of ballot papers are being pourer from a black box. The woman, wearing a pink hooded jumper, is in a large hall with counting desks and an empty stand of orange seats in the background.

  3. A photo of Elliot and Heather standing at a bus stop. He has long ginger hair and is wearing a white shirt with a school tie and a grey jacket. She has long blonde hair and glasses and is wearing a black cardigan over a leather top.

  4. A woman sits at a computer desk with her back to the camera in a doctor's office, opposite another woman who is out of focus. The woman in the foreground wears a white shirt and has curly blonde hair clipped up at the back of her head.

  5. Lorna Slater, who has blonde curly hair and glasses, smiles as she looks to her left. She is wearing a blue top and multi-coloured necklace.

  6. General view of Police vehicles outside Cowdenbeath Police Station

  7. Lori and Jacqui. He is in a light grey formal suit and has his arms around Jacqui who is in a wedding dress. She is smiling and holding flowers. They are pictured next to a stone harbour wall next to the North Sea.

  8. An image of a series of security gates in a prison - with floor-to-ceiling white metal bars. Above the first set it says "E/F Wing" and a prison officer - a bald man in a white shirt and black trousers - is opening the gate. We see him from behind.

  9. A large protest march with participants holding banners and flags. The main banner in the foreground reads “SCOTLAND DEMANDS BETTER” and includes the STUC logo. Behind it, another prominent red banner displays “National Anti-Poverty Network” and “The Poverty Alliance – Working Together to Combat Poverty.” Several other colourful flags and signs are visible, and uniformed stewards stand along the side of the crowd.

  10. Lorna Slater has blonde, curly hair and is wearing glasses and a grey jacket

  11. Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana clap while sitting behind a table on a stage. Corbyn has short white hair and a short white beard and wears a dark grey suit. Sultana wears a light blue blazer and has long black hair.

  12. A person wearing orange overalls and a hard hat looks out over the North Sea. There is a ship next to a large wind pylon in the centre of the shot, with other pylons in the background.

  13. A Biffa bin lorry - a large red truck with the word BIFFA in big letters down the side

  14. Two fishermen in yellow overalls hunched over baskets in a boat. One is emptying crustaceans into a basket, the other is holding a broom. Green hills are in the background beyond a body of water.

  15. David Harris, a man with white hair, wearing a dark suit and a blue tie, standing outside the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh

  16. Colin Smyth, a man with spiky brown hair mid speech while wearing a suit, white shirt and blue flowery tie

  17. Stephen Flynn, who is bald, outside the UK Parliament, a large stone building out of focus in the background. He is wearing a dark suit, white shirt and blue tie.

  18. Two young boy pipers in Highland dress frame either edge of the image, their backs to us. In the middle stands Sir Keir Starmer in dark blue suit, white shirt and patterned grey tie. His hands are crossed in front of him. To his left (our right) stands President Donald Trump. He wears a dark blue suit, white shirt and bright red tie. He has a stars and stripes badge pinned to his left lapel. They are both listening to the music and there are full green bushes behind them.

  19. Lorna Slater, who has curly blonde hair and glasses, looks to her left in a close-up shot. She is visible from the neck up.

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    A woman wearing a face mask, sunglasses and a red coat walks past a rainbow mural on a wall which reads "Stay alert save lives" during the Covid pandemic.

  21. Prince Andrew, in dark blue double-breasted suit, white shirt and dark blue tie is standing in front of a man and a woman outside a church. The Prince has white hair and looks very serious.

  22. A glass bottle is being placed into bottle return machine. A person is holding the top to the bottle with their left hand, with their arm, covered by a dark jumper, visible. The machine is grey, with the bottle entering a round black hole.

  23. Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay sit in an audience clapping their hands. Greer wears a navy suit and white tshirt and Mackay wears a black dress

  24. Image of an oil rig in the north sea - yellow stanchions reach down in the water from several platforms, against a blue sky and deeper blue sea