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  1. A red sofa with belongings piled on top of it. It is surrounded by floodwater which looks grey and has flecks of white in it.

  2. Two vervet monkeys - small with pale fur and black faces - pictured in the grass

  3. A group of hunters sitting upon rocks at the top of a cliff, gutting and feathering gannets against a backdrop of blue sea and skies.

  4. Finbar Polin received is diagnosis during the pandemic

  5. Around 30 white ducks drinking water from a rectangular metal basin outdoors. They are on a patchy of muddy land which is surrounded by black netting.

  6. An archaeologist bending over a shadowy shape being brushed out of the sandy soil at at Sizewell C. He is wearing hi-vis orange clothing and a white helmet and the brush is in his right hand. The shadow skeleton of a horse and some bone is raised out of the ground around it, showing its back and hind leg.

  7. Andy Matthews is standing on the muddy river bed holding two whole crucibles and one part-damaged one. They are a big smaller than his hands, made of pale stone and are a bit muddy. He is wearing a blue anorak, a grey woolly hat and a pair of sunglasses and he has a dark grey goatee.

  8. A household waste recycling centre with signs for scrap metal, wood and timber and cardboard. In front of the signs there are concrete barriers and a line of bollards.

  9. An interpretative sketch of the team's findings alongside the ground penetrating radar scan. The villa's individual rooms and corridors are clearly visible

  10. A computer generated image of wind turbines, solar panels and battery energy storage units with some trees around them

  11. White waste bin lorry with green wheeler bin and other recycling containers in front of it including a white bag, a blue bag, a blue box, a grey caddy and a smaller grey caddy.

  12. A general view of a river running through the area with the Himalaya Mountains in the background in Leh, one of the most remote areas of the Indian-administered portion of the Kashmir region, on April 13, 2025.

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  14. A car drives through floodwater covering a rural road, with snow piled along the roadside and fields under wintry cond

  15. Four people are in a classroom. Three are sat at a table, one is crouched down next to them. On the table are models of the solar system. There is a screen behind them with images of the moon on.

  16. A man in his forties wearing a backpack sits in a field smiling. He has a plastic container and a plastic cylinder next to him and he is examining something in his hand.

  17. Sir David Attenborough with a member of Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust at a bird ringing demonstration at the Volunteer Training Centre in Rutland

  18. A man in a black jacket with grey sleeves with a yellow zip. He is stood outside, in the forefront of a protest, smiling at the camera

  19. Two white fallow bucks stand on either side of a thick oak tree in the lawned grounds of a stately home

  20. Penguins in the sunshine with the sea and icebergs behind them. Baby chicks can be seen too

  21. A close up view of a nightjar resting in a woman's hand in front of a blue plastic crate. The bird has brown, grey, beige and white plumage, a small beak and its right eye is closing slightly.

  22. A person in winter clothing shovels snow away from a car on a congested, snow-covered road, with several vehicles stuck in traffic and heavy snowfall visible in a mountainous or rural setting.

  23. Gabriella, aged 10, wears a turquoise coat and holds a tree planter wrapped in clear plastic. There a several planters behind her. She sits crouched in a green garden. She has long brown hair.

  24. A black and white photo which has three men standing and two more sitting in front of them on the snow. They are wearing heavy clothing and hats and have ski poles. There is a Union Jack flag in the snow behind them.