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  1. A woman in denim shorts and a top walking through a dry yellow and brown field with blue skies.

    2. A woman in a white wedding dress stands with a man in a suit. She holds a bouquet of red and pink flowers with a red ribbon. They stand at the pathway to a round church, metal ornate gates are open next to them and the path lined with traditional street lights. To the right and left is a lawn with large trees.

    • An aerial view as a cargo ship passes a huge exposed sandbar on the Rhine River

    • John Gibson is wearing a blue top and is standing in front of a field with a green hedge in the background. It is a sunny day.

    • A drought-stricken field in Surrey during the fourth summer heatwave.

    • A potato field near Spalding, Lincolnshire, with neat lines of crops photographed in front of some large sheds and trees in the background.

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    • A person uses a fan on a hot summer day in Milan, Italy, 31 July 2026

    • Purple clouds over Marsden Rock, a large rock surrounded by the sea. It is a short way away from a beach, where there is a restaurant at the bottom with a large concrete lift shaft leading to the top

    • A photo across L’Ancresse with the land giving way to the sea under a blue sky. The land looks dry and there is a large house to the left which has a red roof.

    • An air conditioning unit being installed on a wall.

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    • The MVM Paks Nuclear Power Plant

    • An aerial photograph taken with a drone of a dry football pitch and cricket in Llay, Britain, 27 July 2026.

    • many blackcurrants inside a large container

    • Three people in summer clothing smiling at the camera.

    • A disposable barbecue straddles a soily patch and grass as it burns.

    • A hand holding blackcurrants with green stalks above a pile of blackcurrants.

    • Cricketers play on parched ground in Bray

    • : In this aerial view, dried grass is seen on Peckham Common on July 23, 2026 in London, United Kingdom.

    • A black cow is looking out of its pen while being doused with cold water.

    • The glasshouse building at RHS Wisley. A front on view of the multi-story glass building. The sky is blue and there are lots of green bushes and plants around the building and inside.

    • A 30mph sign which says 'Welcome to SULLOM VOE TERMINAL - Please drive carefully', with oil and gas infrastructure in the background after a winding road.

    • Two firefighters with their backs to the camera as they look out over a scene of a helicopter taking off on tarmac in south-western France on Monday.