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  1. Two people stand side by side on a sandy riverbank, facing the camera. One is wrapped in a white patterned shawl with red designs, while the other wears a bright orange shawl. A wide river and a hazy shoreline are visible in the background.

  2. A group of four people leading the tower mustard conservation effort crouch down on a muddy ground with small shoots of plants in and smile at the camera. They are all touching one green plant.

  3. A row of metal fencing posts on grass are pictured during the day. Lines of barbed wire are spooled around the posts, leaving gaps. Beyond the fencing is a small footpath and a woodland area with many trees.

  4. The factory within the free port area. It is placed on the firth with water in the background and the black isle and Invergordon area behind that.

  5. Otter Musa has this brown fur, which turns white around his cheeks and neckm and long eyebrows and moustache. He's clasping a small fish between his claws.

  6. The image shows a flock of sheep with white fleeces. Some of them have black faces and some have white faces. They are standing in a field on brown, parched grass.

  7. A large amount of fly-tipped waste stretches along the edge of a tree-lined lane. In the foreground, an overturned red office chair lies among piles of rubbish and overgrown vegetation.

  8. A grey/blue butterfly with black spots sitting on a blade of grass. It has black and white stripy antennae and white legs with black stripes on.

  9. Elon Musk smiles at a camera while appearing to walk by. He is wearing a black coat and has short brown hair

  10. An artist's impression of the MMX spacecraft - which is a gold and black spacecraft with large solar panels, thrusters and antenna - flies above the red surface of Mars, which looms large in the background. It is heading towards the small, dark and irregularly shaped moon called Phobos.

  11. Close-up, low-angle view of a young tree with red-orange leaves against a cloudy sky, supported by a wooden stake, with green foliage and trees in the background.

  12. A close up of a grave with blue and white faux floral arrangements. Some of the flowers have fallen off and are lying on the grass.

  13. A man and woman are standing next to each other in a green field. Neither is smiling.

  14. Three red firework explosions are pictured in the night sky.

  15. A computer generated view of how the meat processing plant might look with cars and lorries parked outside

  16. Six black Cumbrian fell ponies gallop on green terrain in the Swindale valley, in the Lake District. They gallop in single file. There are large grassy-covered slopes in the background.

  17. BBC reporter wearing face mask standing on burnt ground with smoke

  18. A close up photograph of a common pipistrelle bat. It has a black face with prominent nostrils and black pointed ears poking through grey and white fur.

  19. Leak in river Taff, an inflatable plastic buffer has been used to try and stop the leak spreading down the river

  20. Man with curly brown hair and smiling at the camera is wearing a red and black t-shirt with a backdrop of leafy trees.

  21. Many Exmoor ponies at at Lancombe Crossing, Brendon Common. They are running along the grass and across a small stream.

  22. Man in a red flotation suit operates a small inflatable workboat in a harbour, with a floating marine device and waterfront buildings visible in the background.

  23. An adult grey seal and a grey seal pup lie on the sand at a beach on South Walney Nature Reserve near Barrow, Cumbria. The adult seal is grey and the seal pup is much smaller, white and covered in fluffy fur.

  24. A man in a white top and high visibility vest. He is wearing a hard hat. He is smiling at the camera. Behind him are two wooden buildings, other people in hard hats and vests and a gravel path.