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  1. Keswick Mountain Rescue Team members, all wearing red emergency clothing, prepare to send off a rib boat into Thirlmere. There are two rescuers wearing red diving suits and it is pitch black and late at night.

  2. Alex on a large adapted swing in a playground. It has a green frame and orange seat. He is leaning on the seat and looking at the camera. He is wearing a navy blue tracksuit and red coat. He has short brown hair. Behind him is a drystone wall and some stone cottages.

  3. Seven northern mayors are sitting/standing in front of the Tyne Bridge and smiling at the camera. Sir Brendan Foster also joins them. (Right to left) Tracy Brabin, Andy Burnham, Brendan Foster, Oliver Coppard, David Skaith, Kim McGuinness, Ben Houchen and Steve Rotheram.

  4. Four members of Furness Morris Dancers sat on a bench with six more standing behind them. They are all wearing black trousers, white shirts and red waistcoats. All but one have hats with flowers at the top. They are smiling. The phot was taken in 2023.

  5. Two cyclists smiling as they push their bikes down a section of the route near Kent's Bank Station in Grange-over-Sands. The rail line is on their right, with the coast visible in the distance.

  6. Mike Starkie sits in front of the teal set of BBC Politics North wearing a beige suit, dusty blue shirt and a vibrant patterned pocket handkerchief.

  7. The silhouette of a firefighter is illuminated by the flames and embers as fields and bushes are burning.

  8. A duck and four yellowish ducklings are waddling together along a path. More birds are sitting in grass ahead of them. It is a bright day.

  9. Festival goers checking out the stalls at Keswick Mountain Festival. A group of them is sat around a black wooden table. There are colourful flags and banners on the grassland, with Lake District peaks rising against the clear blue sky.

  10. Ian Mitchell, Hazel Hodgson and Tim Farron stand looking at the camera at junction 37 of the M6. The slip road to the motorway is behind them, along with a blue sign pointing to the MG North and Penrith. There is a yellow sign pointing left to Kendal and right to Sedbergh and the Yorkshire Dales. Rolling hills and a blue sky make up the backdrop.

  11. A man wearing protective glasses is working with glass. He is holding a blow torch and directing the flame at a small glass object.

  12. Hikers walk down a path towards the coast village of Robin Hood's Bay. It is a grey day.

  13. Eleven members of Furness Morris Dance smiling at the camera back in 2023. They are wearing black trousers, white shirts and red waistcoats, and have hats with flowers at the top.

  14. View of the village of Litton, with traditional stone houses in the distance and a red phone box in the foreground.

  15. Workers wearing white suits and florescent overalls lay concrete at the treatment plant in Sellafield. There is a crane in the distance and other industrial buildings.

  16. Plumes of white smoke billow from a forest. There are fields in the foreground.

  17. An aerial view of Windermere. Four piers extend into the water. The largest, on the right, has three boats docked on it. Two kayakers are paddling in a single boat in the water. The water is bright green due to algae in the water. There are swirls in the water due to the water currents.

  18. The empty waiting room is long and narrow. It has a bar on the right of the photo and large, almost floor-to-ceiling windows on either side. The walls are painted white, with some red features. The high vaulted ceiling is painted white with some arches painted in a dark colour as a feature. There is a large fireplace at the end of the room and three people are standing in the empty space.

  19. A worker who is wearing a woolly hat and pink coat stands with their hands on a spade looking over several circular cones (where trees have been planted). They look over rolling hills of the North Pennines.

  20. Maryport's Elizabeth Dock. A trawler is in the foreground on the left-hand side of the photo with two smaller vessels moored nearby. Beyond them, the Ellenfoot pedestrian bridge - a white-and-blue structure - is raised, pointing high into the air.

  21. The black and white cat inside a cage. He is looking dirty, with his white markings discoloured.

  22. Adam Ball stood by Brotherswater lake, with his safety team on paddleboards either side

  23. A faded and wrinkled Magna Carta belonging to Harvard Law School sits in a protective frame.

  24. The back of a yellow hi-vis police officer's jacket on the right. It has the words 'POLICE' on the back. On the left, out of focus, is a blue and yellow police car.