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  1. a farmer is seen from behind in handcuffs being walked away by police in central London

  2. Two men - Niall Fry on the left who is wearing a white checked shirt and a grey blazer, and Marios Theocharous, who is wearing a dark shacket with a dark shirt beneath and has grey hair - shake hands as they stand in an auction house. In front of them, there is a small pine wooden table, with a small jug on it.

  3. A man and women are stood next to each other. One is wearing a white space suit with a glass helmet, the other is wearing a navy blue T-shirt and has piping in his hand. They are both looking directly at the camera and stood in front of a black background.

  4. Anna Longthorp stands on the pavement in London with tractors on the road and a banner behind her. She wears glasses and a blue woollen hat and hooded top and a black coat with fur trim.

  5. A group of council officials and councillors, and coastal management experts sit in a row before a stage at a meeting in Hemsby Village Hall. Carl Smith, the council leader is standing at a table, holding a microphone. A screen has a projected image on it, mounted on a backdrop of a burgundy coloured curtain.

  6. The early reconstruction of the face of The Kendal Woman. She is a middle-aged woman wearing a dark turban and she has blue eyes.

  7. Woman wearing a green jumper is taking her charger to her car. She has curly brown hair.

  8. A man in a brown flat cap and brown jacket in a large barn with animals in the background. There is a life-sized cut out of a police officer to his right hand side.

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  10. This picture shows a humpback whale swimming near the ocean surface, viewed from above. The whale’s dark body is clearly visible, with white water breaking along its back as it moves. Two bright turquoise patches stand out in the water—these are the whale’s pectoral fins, which often appear lighter underneath and glow through the water.

  11. A drone view shows cars parked in a flooded area in Hat Yai

  12. A black and white photograph showing a group of smartly dressed men wearing hats on the deck of a paddle steamer sailing on Loch Ness. Some of them are smoking cigarettes.

  13. Four puffins are standing on a grey and white rock. They are clustered together, with two looking right, and two looking left. They have orange, yellow and dark blue beaks, with a white chest, orange feet, and black colouring on the tops of their heads, down their back. In the background, the sea is visible, but it is blurred out, to bring the focus to the puffins.

  14. A speckled flower with an orange centre can be seen amid dark foliage.

  15. A chicken sits in a pen behind a wired fence. It has red and brown feathers and a redhead. It is looking away from the camera.

  16. The feet of an unidentifiable newborn baby in a hospital bed. The baby has hospital identification tags on both its ankles - though none of the information is legible.

  17. A white small bird with a yellow beak and pale orange feathers on its head stands beside a grass-grazing longhorn calf, with dark brown and white fur.

  18. Jared wearing a school blazer, sitting next to his Lego hand and smiling at someone off camera. He is in a classroom with school tables and chairs.

  19. A pale brown dog sits on a chair alongside a person in a wheelchair with a tattoo on a bare arm.

  20. A large blue depot on an industrial estate with a Biffa sign on the gable end. A white sign with red writing, says 'Biffa Southampton TS and recycling centre'

  21. A woman with short light brown hair is wearing a red coat with a blue fleece over the top. Behind her are fields and trees as far as the eye can see.

  22. Close up of a young person's face with an eye being examined by technical equipment

  23. A group of seven men stood side by side with their arms around each other in front of a fishing hut.

  24. Two women in swimming costumes and woolly hats in the sea