An oil platform in the North Sea has been evacuate after a ship carrying nuclear material caught fire and began drifting towards it.
The MV Parida was transporting radioactive concrete from Scrabster to Antwerp in Belgium when a fire broke out on board and it began drifting in the Moray Firth at around 20:00 on Wednesday night.
The fire was quickly extinguished, but all 52 workers on board the Beatrice platform were evacuated by helicopter to RAF Lossiemouth at around midnight as a precaution.
The 15 crew aboard the ship were unharmed during the fire, and the radioactive cargo is not believed to have been damaged in the blaze.
The ship has been towed to an anchorage near the Sutors headland outside the entrance to the Cromarty Firth, and Police Scotland have said that they are closely monitoring the situation.
The cargo of intermediate level waste was from the Dounreay experimental nuclear reactor near Thurso, which is being decommissioned, and was on route to Belgium for reprocessing.