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  1. A dark haired man wearing glasses and a suit is sitting down smiling surrounded by plants and foliage

  2. A lady stands on a bridge overlooking a stream that runs past her house. There is shrubbery on either side.

  3. Two domesticated brown and white kittens. The one on the right has a collar around its neck.

  4. A general view of Windermere. A person is sat on the edge of a small pier looking out to the water. On the other side of the lake, the shore is green and covered in trees.

  5. James Southey looking and smiling at the camera with his small dog stood on a wall.

  6. A sign on the M4 near the Prince of Wales bridge warns motorists to take care due to the extreme hot weather forecast during July 2022

  7. A micro-CT scanner analysing a rice plant at the University of Nottingham's Hounsfield Facility

  8. Graham Makepeace-Warne is standing in a field with rolling hills behind him. He is leaning on a post with a sign for the nature reserve Creg y Cowin. He has very short hair and a grey short beard. He is smiling, and wearing a dark blue jacket and you can see the orange straps from his rucksack.

  9. A floral installation depicts an astronaut figure facing a large model of the Moon, set among pastel-coloured flowers on a wet pavement in an outdoor urban space.

  10. Cardigan's old hospital

  11. A medium shot of Karl Marx's tomb at Highgate Cemetery, featuring his large bronze bust atop a granite plinth amidst weathered gravestones and trees.

  12. Luke Abblitt is wearing sunglasses on his head, a grey hoodie and has short dark brown hair . He is standing in a corrugated iron building, surrounded by machinery and is holding a handful of potatoes.

  13. Nao, a boy-like white plastic robot with blue glowing eyes, strikes a pose for the camera

  14. Black and yellow tape reads "DO NOT CROSS - HAZARD

  15. A woman with glassses smiles as she holds up a tortoise to the camera

  16. A man with short dark hair and a short beard pours water from a bottle over his neck. He is wearing a red and yellow top and has a belt around his hip. The background behind him is blurred but appears to be a bus.

  17. A large group of people stand outdoors on a coastal landscape under an overcast sky holding protest placards and banners with messages including “STOP USING BIO BEADS”, “Protect our Birds”, “Nature Rules OK”, and “No Beads”, while several oversized black spheres behind the group spell out “BIN THE BEADS” in white lettering.

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    A rusty metal gate sits at the centre of a dense, carefully styled garden display, surrounded by layers of rich greenery and bright bursts of colour.

  19. A puffin in an underwater dive with bubbles rising from its wings, the sea is blue and a partial reflection of the puffin can be seen on the surface just above

  20. Councillor Elissa Swinglehurst wearing a green tweed coat holds up rubbish in both hands while standing in front of white recycling bins.

  21. Three tiger cubs sleeping on hay inside an enclosure.

  22. There is a man with short brown hair. He has stubbly facial hair and a slight smile. He is wearing a black coat, a green jacket and a brown t-shirt. Behind him is a big green meadow, with a row of houses behind him,

  23. Computer generated image of what a new university campus will look like. The campus, split into several wood-clad buildings, surrounds an old stone building at the back of a large field full of wildflowers surrounding a lake, which two students are looking out over.

  24. A long grey-haired woman has an owl perched on a gauntlet which is on her left hand.