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  1. A row of chickens perched on a wooden bench.

  2. A middle aged couple - a man with grey hair and a woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, smile as they rest their hands on the withers of a black cow in a field. The man is wearing a navy polo shirt, checked shorts and wellies, and the woman is wearing a light blue jumper, skinny jeans and black trainers. It is a cloudy but warm day in the summer, and the grass in the field is scorched.

  3. Two puffins stand on narrow ledges of a rugged, green‑tinged cliff face, their bright orange beaks and feet standing out against the rock. One puffin faces outward while the other rests against the stone.

  4. Two puffins perched on rocks at the RSPB Bempton Cliffs site.

  5. A woman in a white forensics suit and blue mask crouches outside a house next to a women's dummy lying facedown on the pavement. A bike is on top of her.

  6. Water flows out of three openings of underground pipes. The pipes are surrounded by lightly coloured brickwork.

  7. Bottles of wine and cider on the steps outside the Senedd

  8. An aerial view looking out across the castle square in Lincoln from the castle to Lincoln Cathedral. Several buildings are dotted around the castle square and Lincoln Cathedral with its two towers stand looking out at the city. The sky is blue and greenery and fields can be seen in the distance.

  9. Cars fill all the spaces at a car park with a wall and harbour buildings beyond.

  10. Drone shows the scale of the landslip in relation to the closed off road

  11. A person wearing a high-vis jacket and blue plastic gloves pulls sausage meat wrapped in white plastic bags out of a blue bucket.

  12. A bright orange Moon rising above a faint tree line.

  13. A woman with a black hat and black coat alongside a woman with long blonde hair and glasses. Both are wearing yellow reflective jackets

  14. Ian Sexton is standing in a shed wearing virtual reality goggles while he looks at a screen which shows fields. One of the fields has a yellow grid in laid over it. In his hands are two handsets.

  15. The geyser seen erupting

  16. Aleks - a tiger with predominantly white fur and dark grey stripes is lying down on ground covered in straw. He is looking directly into the camera, has light blue eyes and his tongue is poking out slightly.

  17. A man with wayward mid-length wavy grey hair holds up a sign that reads "Regenerate don't regenerate" as he sits outside on a gravelled area in the sunshine. The word "Welcome" is painted on a shed behind him.

  18. A photograph of rubbish dumped near waste bins

  19. Stock shot of a pine marten - it has brown fur with a pale beard

  20. A green diesel shunter on a railway line heading under a footbridge. The engine has black and yellow diagonal stripes on the back and a red bumper. Alongside the track are a collection of sheds

  21. Cllr John Cotton, Labour leader of Birmingham City Council sitting in the BBC WM studio in front of purple studio lighting. He is looking into the camera smiling and leaning against the desk

  22. A computer-generated view of how the new Dark Sky Observatory might look with two domed buildings and a more traditional building beside it set in green countryside

  23. A greylag goose sitting in water. The bird has feathers of different shades of grey and an orange beak. It has its head slightly raised up and there is another goose just visible behind it.

  24. A redshank bird standing alone in what appears to be some sort of wetland. It is brown-ish bird with a slightly more marl-coloured chest area. It had an orange beak and piercing eyes.