Heraldically, the Regional Councils were allocated a crown :
a circlet richly chased from which are issuant eight thistle-heads leaved/slipped (three and two halves visible) Or:
and supporters, of which the sinister one was always: a unicorn Argent armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent while the dexter had a local significance.
Tayside Regional Council (vol 59 fol 17)
Azure a saltire Argent surmounted at the fess point by an inescutcheon Gules fimbriated Or and charged with a fleur-de-lys and in chief a bar wavy of the Last a bordure counter-compony of the First and Second.
Supporters: dexter an Angus bull proper, and sinister a unicorn Argent armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent
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Lothian Regional Council (Vol 59 fol 57)
Azure a saltire Argent surmounted at the fess point by an inescutcheon Gules, fimbriated Or, and charged with a sun in splendour Or, a bordure counter-compony of the First and Second.
Supporters: dexter a lion rampant Vert armed and langued Gules and sinister a unicorn Argent, armed, maned and unguled Or, and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent
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Highland Regional Council (Vol 59 fol 57)
Azure a saltire Argent surmounted at the fess-poit by an inescutcheon Gules fimbriated Or and charged with a star Argent, a bordure counter-compny of the First and Second.
Supporters: dexter a stag or Or, and sinister a unicorn Argent, armed, maned and unguled Or, and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent
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Borders Regional Council (Vol 59 fol 22)
Azure a saltire Argent surmounted at the fess point by an inescutcheon Gules fimbriated Or charged with four barrulets wavy Argent between in chief a salmon naiant and in base a ram's head cabossed proper a bordure counter-compony of the First and Second.
Supporters: dexter a Border Knight wearing thigh boots Sable spurred Or, a breast-plate and helmet proper, girt with a sword his dexter arm flexed at the elbow, the hand grasping a spear paleways also proper and sinister a unicorn Argent, armed, maned and unguled Or, and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent
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Central Regional Council (vol 59 fol 45)
Azure, a saltire Argent, surmounted at the fess point by an inescutcheon Gules, fimbriated Or, charged with two caltraps in chief and a dexter mailed gauntlet paleways in base all Or, a bordure counter-compony of the first and second.
Supporters: dexter a goshawk proper and sinister a unicorn Argent armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent
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Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council (vol 59 fol 21)
Azure a saltire Argent surmounted at the fess point by an inescutcheon Gules fimbriated Or and charged with a lion rampant Argent crowned Or, a bordure counter-compony of the First and Second.
Supporters: dexter a stag proper, and sinister a unicorn Argent armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent
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Fife Regional Council (vol 59 fol 53)
Argent a knight armed at all points on a horse at full speed, in his dexter hand a sword erect all proper, his surcoat Argent, on his sinister arm a shield Or, charged with a lion rampant Gules, the visor of his helmet shut, over which on a wreath of his liveries with a mantling of the Fourth doubled of the Third is set a lion rampant, issuing out of the wreath, of the Fourth, the caparisons of the horse of the Last, fimbriated of the Third, and thereupon six shields of the Last each charged with a lion rampant of the fourth.
Supporters: Dexter: the figure of St Servanus proper vested Argent and sinister a unicorn Argent armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent
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Grampian Regional Council (vol 59 fol 13)
Azure a saltire Argent surmounted at the fess point by an inescutcheon Gules fimbriated Or and charged with a cross-crosslet fitchée Or, a bordure counter-compony of the First and Second.
Supporters: dexter a ptarmigan proper and sinister a unicorn Argent armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent
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The Island Councils were effectively "Regional" rather than District so were allowed supporters but had a different crown: A circlet richly chased from which are issuant four dolphins two and two respectant naiant embowed (two visible) Or.
Orkney Islands Council (vol 59 fol 11)
Parted per pale Azure and Gules in the dexter a dragon galley Or, sails furled Argent and in the sinister a lion rampant imperially crowned Or, armed and langued Azure holding in its forepaws a battle-axe erect in pale Gold.
Supporters: a udaller habited of the fifteenth century and sinister a unicorn Argent armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent.
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Shetland Islands Council (vol 59 fol 19)
Azure a base invected barry Argent and Sable, the alternate lines being engrailed and plain, a dragonship Or the sail charged with a raven proper, oars in action Or, flag amd mast Gules.
Supporters: dexter a Shetland pony proper and sinister a unicorn Argent armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent.
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Western Isles Islands Council (Vol 51 fol 51)
Or on a fess wavy Azure between three lymphads, oars in action, sails furled Sable flagged Gules two barrulets wavy Argent.
Supporters: dexter a golden eagle proper and sinister a unicorn Argent armed, maned and unguled Or and gorged with a collar Gules from which is pendant an oval badge Azure fimbriated Or charged with a saltire Argent.
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To complete the picture, here is what the largest Regional Council of them all used to encompass its glorious past as the ancient lands of Strathclyde, Dalriada, William Wallace, the Stewart kings, Robert Burns et al, not to mention its world-leading place in industrial and ship-building history:
