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  1. Braden Peters stares straight ahead as he walks a runway in a white button-up shirt.

  2. A person with short black hair swims in open water.

  3. A drone shot of the satellite. It is surrounded by single level buildings and fields.

  4. Seafront with a beach and promenade and houses behind it

  5. Otters swimming in River Freshney

  6. A young woman with long brown hair. She has a woolsack over one shoulder and is standing in front of grassland. The sky behind her is bright blue.

  7. Swimmers in bathing costumes on a sandy beach hold placards with slogans including "Sick of sewage" and "Wessex Water no sewage dumping now".

  8. A sign saying Advice Against Swimming posted alongside a river in Lancashire.

    9. Woman and orchid

    • A brown deer with a small white tail and no antlers is walking past a brick wall with iron railings on a tarmac road

    • Artist reconstruction of the Nagatitan, a dark blue long-necked dinosaur eating leaves from a tree.

    • Dog carrying a letter in its mouth as it jumps over a log

    • Two images side by side. On the left an image of a wild fire and on the right one of a woman mopping her brow

    • Stoat on a rock

    • A black-and-white night‑vision camera shot taken beside a small stream or pon./In the lower centre of the image there is a single animal moving along the water’s edge.

    • Raw sewage being discharged into the sea from a pipe down a cliff face

    • Three black birds with red beaks and red feet. They are sat on a grey rock with green grass.

    • The image shows the front of a historic sandstone building in York. The architecture is classical in style. The building’s façade is dominated by a portico with six tall stone columns supporting a triangular pediment. The columns have decorative capitals and stand evenly spaced across the front. The stonework is light beige with visible weathering and darker patches.

    • Two lions are sitting against a beige brick wall on straw. One is in the foreground staring at the camera, one is sitting behind him, also looking forward.

    • A cliff face with a small under the rock pipe coming down it. From the pipe a brown water (sewage) is being released, slowly coming out in a semi-circular pattern to the blue sea.

    • A white butterfly with orange tips on the upper left and right hand side of its wings is resting on a Forget Me Not plant which is in flower.

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      There is a man in a full white bee keeper outfit with a black netted hood on. He is wearing yellow gloves and has a union jack on his shoulder patch. He is holding a frame from his hive which is full of bees.

    • A white furred robot seal with wide open eyes

    • A woman with short grey hair smiles as she holds up a sign just below her face with the words, 'stop the smell' on.