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  1. The sun on he horizon behind an oil and gas platform in the North Sea. The sea is calm and the whole scene is a vivid orange colour.

  2. A group of people, some young students, others retired volunteers work on their hands and knees removing soil from a graveyard at the dig site.

  3. Two people digging in a hole on grass in the foreground of a church

  4. A man looks admiringly at a large white headed eagle perched close to his head

  5. A bumblebee pollinating purple flowers in a garden

  6. A pale blue butterfly sits on a white flower with small white petals with its wings spread wide.

  7. An archive black and white picture of a row of carts of strawberries

    8. Lydia Law looking directly to camera and smiling. She is wearing a white, round-necked t-shirt and has straight brown hair, worn down and reaching over her shoulders. She is seated in a hay barn, with bales of hay see behind her on the left of frame and a corrugated metal wall in the further distance.

    • A large area with trees planted in it, and plastic around the tree stumps. There is a field in the distance. Fence posts are also in the distance. The trees are surrounded by foliage.

    • A woman with glasses and a hat posing next to a bunch of bananas

    • A firefighter in a field holding a hose with the sun setting, along with a burnt field and a combine harvester on fire. Trees are in the distance. Smoke is billowing up from the machinery.

    • Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada engulfed the New York City skyline, reducing visibility and casting an orange haze over the New York City, United States on July 16, 2026.

    • A US Park Police officer sits on a motorbike in front of the Washington Monument, with American flags in the background

    • A fox cub with a large white dressing covering most of its body and around its neck. It is looking directly ahead with pricked ears and standing on a white sheet.

    • Cars and trucks of various colours queuing in a narrow street on an industrial estate. The queue stretches back as far as we can see. In the foreground is a patch of green grass. In the background are green trees.

    • A man in a green jumper and wellies is walking on Exmoor away from the camera.

    • A person wearing a dark diving suit and gloves is standing on a boat and holding up a long, corroded green metal sword-like object, possibly recovered from the seabed. The boat's wooden deck is wet, with a mesh bag and diving equipment nearby, while blue sea water and the boat's railing can be seen in the background.

    • Indian space startup Skyroot Aerospace launches its Vikram-1 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, 18 July 2026

    • This image has two halves. The top half has a girl on the left and a boy on the right. They are standing in the doorway of a shop. The girl is holding a poster which has a blue water drop symbol with a blue smiley face on it and some words. The words read: 'free water refill here'. The girl has brown hair and is wearing a black t-shirt and earrings. They boy has shoulder length light brown hair. He is wearing a black short sleeved shirt, a black scarf with white stars on, a black hat and glasses. He is holding a multi-coloured metal water bottle. The bottom half of the image shows a large plastic water container with a tap on a wooden bench in the porch of a church. The same poster the girl is holding in the top half of the image is lying flat on the bench alongside the container.

    • On the right is turquoise water and on the left is a bright yellow/orange bloom of water

    • A Bittern stalking for prey in shallow water during the late evening sun

    • A close-up of an emu looking at the camera, with a bright blue sky behind him. His face and neck are visible in the picture.

    • Man walks through road and looks up at sign that says 118 degrees and 05:15 pm

    • Split screen. Left, Magnolia. Right, Magnolia getting stolen.