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    1. Image of a wide pedestrianised street lined with trees, benches and planted flower beds. People are walking, sitting and socialising outside shopfronts beneath white buildings with green awnings.

    • Two images side by side showing people interacting in a store filled with shoes, bags, and various colourful items.

    • A Lancashire player in short-sleeved blue top with red facings and blue trousers appeals fgor a wciket while the umpire in bright blue shirt and black trousers wit h a black cap raises his right index finger to signify a dismissal. The stumps are blue with sponsor logo. A blurred shot of spectators sitting on a grass verge can be seen in the back ground.

    • Liverpool Town Hall is a large, imposing municipal building in the Georgian style.

    • Image shows Barack Obama, who is wearing a white shirt and sunglasses, standing next to George W Bush at a golf event. Bush is wearing a blue and white striped shirt. Obama is waving to a crowd.

    • A fire burns though a bush and trees in a small coner of a cricket ground, with a brick wall behind it. There is ash on the floor.

    • Newly elected Mayor of Greater Manchester, Bev Craig, celebrating her victory at an event in Manchester to thank party activists and supporters from across the North West for their hard work. Picture date: Saturday August 1, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Annabel Lee-Ellis/PA Wire

    • Four women at a South Asian Festival smiling into the camera

    • The River Thames in Reading. There is yellow and brown grass on the left of the river with green trees visible across the picture.

    • A hosepipe being sprayed onto a garden.

    • Image of a large robot statue half hidden behind trees in a field

    • Split image, with the top image being a man with black hair and a black t-shirt with trees in the background. In the bottom image is Spider-Man, an action hero in a red and blue suit covered in webbing. He is flying through the streets of New York city, hanging onto webbing

    • A mother and son pose for a selfie. They are both smiling with the tops of their heads touching. They are standing on a viewpoint, with a canopy of trees and an ocean view far below them.

    • Three men wearing work clothes and navy T-shirts stand with their backs to the camera looking at a large sign reading "Robin Hood". One of the O's is a target with arrows in, and there are oak leaves around the words.

    • A split image, the top image shows a man's hands with a notepad a grey box with a wire coming out of it. The bottom image shows a man and a woman say in two fold-up deckchairs, sat in a field with hedges in the background. The man is wearing a pale blue shirt, grey trousers and glasses, the woman is wearing a purple t-shirt and black shorts. Both are smiling

    • Sam, Emma and Sophie King are pictured together at home. They are sat together on a sofa. Emma is holding baby Sophie, who appears to be sleeping. The couple are smiling at the camera.

    • A young tiger club leans up against the windows of its enclosure. It has its eyes closed and is lying on a bed of straw

    • An older man with white hair is on a bicycle in a field of crops. He is wearing a blue cycling t-shirt that reads "hope house children's hospices"

    • A bride and groom dancing together at their wedding.

    • A black and white photo of a dad holding up his son so he can touch a water fountain at Malvern Park in Solihull, in 1976.

    • Four adults stand squinting in the sunshine outside a pub. The couple in the middle of the shot stand behind an old fashioned pub sign

    • A strange sea creature with lots of white rings in the centre before a deep blue edge with tendrils stretching into the sand. The white rings in the centre have a semi-transparent 'sail' standing up in the middle of the creature.

    • A close-up on a sunflower, showing its yellow petals, in front of a fields full of them, under a sky of black clouds.

    • Oscar Wilde lounging on a chair with paper in his hand in a black and white portrait.