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  1. Stourport Basin covered in duckweed. There are canal boats docked and several buildings around the edge of the basin.

  2. An adjutant stork

  3. A close-up picture of the beetle, which is brown with blue tints on its legs and yellow markings on its back.

  4. A middle aged white man is wearing a grey hoodie and a brown peaked cap. He has some white stubble on his face.

  5. A man dressed in a bear costume is lying down after being subdued by police in an animal attack drill.

  6. People seen running from a landslide is triggered by heavy rain in southern China

  7. A man wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and a straw hat puts his thumbs up to the watching crowd as he drives an old-fashioned open tractor in a grassy field. Several other tractors are lined up behind him in the parade.

  8. A rare Gallo-Roman dodecahedron - a 12-sided hollow object which stands about 8cm tall and weighs 245g.

  9. Peter Prinsley wearing a dark blue jacket and glasses, he has greying hair and is holding a plastic bottle of water. He is stood in what appears to be a stream with green foliage around him and a bridge to the right of the image.

  10. A baby barn owl's white face and pink beak is visible, held in someone's hand.

  11. Ed Caudwell smiling for the camera while sitting on a hay bale at his farm. It is a cloudy day.

  12. A very tiny newborn hedgehog, its eyes not open yet and it is lying on a blue blanket. Its face and paws are a very light pink and are so small they appear wrinkled.

  13. Campaigner against dumping sewage into the coast around Kent, stands with a sign which reads I would rather swim with fish than poo.

  14. A team of archaeologists works in a hole in a grassy field. It is sunny.

  15. A close up picture of a man in a light blue jacket and dark blue shirt. He is wearing glasses and has dark hair and a black and grey beard.

  16. A stock image of a man wearing a green and blue chequered shirt, an orange hi-vis vest, white workman's gloves, a white hard helmet and safety goggles. He is carrying a large solar panel on his left shoulder, and looking off to the distance. Behind him there are two more construction workers chatting on a house roof, as rows of solar panels are secured to the tiles.

  17. Worker wearing a hi-vid jacket installing a photovoltaic solar panels on a roof. He is using a blue drill with a screwdriver attachment.

  18. Two dolphins swimming in the open sea. They can be seen above the surface.

  19. A sheep is looking towards the camera while standing in a field. It has brown speckles on its face.

  20. An artist's impression show how the site could look. There is an arched bridge next to a canal and with planted flowers and trees and people walking and sitting down.

  21. An aerial view of the Culham Campus, previously known as the Culham Science Centre, a large campus built amongst the Oxfordshire countryside.

  22. Blob the bobcat is in the middle of the images with his body facing to the right and his head looking to the left. He has orange and brown fur with spots, and white fur on his belly.

  23. A large piece of sand art on a long beach, lined by cliffs. The art depicts an octopus in front of the bubble-like biomes of the Eden Project, with a butterfly fluttering by.

  24. Two Hen Harrier chicks in their nests. They are small cream-coloured birds with dark beaks and yellow claws.