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  1. A man in a blue boiler suit and white hard hat looks out over industrial equipment. Petrofac is printed on the back of the boiler suit in capital letters.

  3. A navy blue ScotRail train at an indoor train station during the day as a passenger in business dress boards the train with a three-carriage red and cream train in the background

  4. ScotRail train at Edinburgh's Waverley station. There is snow on the platform. The National Galleries of Scotland overlooks the track and Edinburgh Castle is on the hill above

  5. Behind wire security fencing is a white road sign giving directions to parts of the Longman Industrial Estate, and the vacant former Inverness College site.

  6. An oil worker in a red uniform and and hard hat stands on one North Sea platform looking across the water to another platform.

  7. Large waves crash over a sea wall next to railway tracks, with water spraying onto the line. Overhead power lines and poles run along the track under a cloudy, stormy sky.

  8. A glass tumbler filled with whisky and ice.

  9. Close up of a blue and white STV sign on a building, photographed against a cloudy blue sky

  10. A general view of the Grangemouth refinery during a sunset, an orange-tinged sky and the smoke coming from giant industrial towers lit up by the sun

  11. Stacked whisky casks and a man in a high vis jack rolling a cask in the foreground

  12. People walk along a platform to board a ScotRail train

  13. An AI-generated image of the imagined woman behind the synthetic voice used on ScotRail trains. The woman has long, red hair and is wearing a brown scarf and a green coat. She is standing against a blurred background that looks like the Scottish outdoors with the shadow of mountains and moorland.

  14. A picture of an offshore platform - Ninian Southern - in the North Sea, with the horizon in the distance.

  15. An aerial view of the coastal community of Helmsdale in the Highlands. Helmsdale is at the mouth of a river, and has a harbour and rows of white-walled houses. Green hills rise behind the village.

  16. A young woman with strawberry blonde hair and clear-rimmed glasses working behind a counter in a coffee shop - she is wearing a black long-sleeve top and a blue pin-striped apron. Behind her is a man in a white checked shirt with his back to the camera.

  17. A collection of pipes and chimneys sits on a grass bank in front of a cloudy blue sky.

  18. A woman and a man, who is wearing a wide brimmed hat, sit at a picnic bench drinking coffees and looking out over the bay at Plockton in Wester Ross.

  19. A ScotRail train at the newly opened Giffnock station on the East Kilbride line

  20. Passengers standing in line with luggage at a British Airways check-in area inside an airport terminal, with digital flight information screens visible above the counters.

  21. A view down to the Talla Reservoir, a body of water surrounded by rugged countryside

  22. A single wind turbine sits on a yellow platform in the waters of the North Sea with a few other turbines in the background

  23. Oil and gas platform with yellow legs in the sea, a blue, red and white offshore helicopter hovers overhead, and vessels in the background.

  24. An aerial view of the Stranraer to Ayr railway line passing over a river with trees and fields around it

  25. A large hole in pipework aboard a North Sea oil platform