![A wide berth: HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s largest naval warship, visits Glen Mallan ammunition jetty on Loch Long off the Firth of Clyde, before returning to sea for routine operational activity and training](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Ffe1c7218-a60c-11ec-a03b-e2dc3fd8780f.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
A wide berth: HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s largest naval warship, visits Glen Mallan ammunition jetty on Loch Long off the Firth of Clyde, before returning to sea for routine operational activity and training
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![Puffed up: A male hooded merganser at Oxton bird gardens in the Borders displays its breeding plumage to attract a mate](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F21d3aece-a60d-11ec-a03b-e2dc3fd8780f.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
Puffed up: A male hooded merganser at Oxton bird gardens in the Borders displays its breeding plumage to attract a mate
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![A space odyssey: Children from Garrowhill Primary School, Glasgow, team up with Scottish Opera on The Last Aliens, a touring educational intergalactic adventure](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F3c19eff0-a60d-11ec-a03b-e2dc3fd8780f.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
A space odyssey: Children from Garrowhill Primary School, Glasgow, team up with Scottish Opera on The Last Aliens, a touring educational intergalactic adventure
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![Stitches in time: Grayson Perry’s Life of Julie Cope tapestries have gone on display at Gallery 1420 at the Great Tapestry of Scotland visitor centre in Galashiels. The 2015 work tells the story of the life and death of a fictional “Essex everywoman”](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Ff00eb3f4-a646-11ec-a03b-e2dc3fd8780f.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
Stitches in time: Grayson Perry’s Life of Julie Cope tapestries have gone on display at Gallery 1420 at the Great Tapestry of Scotland visitor centre in Galashiels. The 2015 work tells the story of the life and death of a fictional “Essex everywoman”
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![Palace tribute: Holocaust survivors Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, left, and Helen Aronson feature in a display at Holyroodhouse](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fed80eb7a-a646-11ec-a03b-e2dc3fd8780f.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
Palace tribute: Holocaust survivors Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, left, and Helen Aronson feature in a display at Holyroodhouse
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