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  1. A colour map showing the proposed new development with homes, roads, water features, a medical centre and public open spaces.

  2. Tern eggs at South Walney Nature Reserve. The close-up image shows two white eggs with black specks on shingle.

  3. Thorn Turn Household Recyling Centre, showing a sign for scrap metal, netting, and barriers.

  4. A German Shepherd dog with dark brown fur is sitting near a fence, looking at the camera, with her tongue hanging out

  5. Two peregrine falcon birds surrounding their three brown eggs in the nest at the cathedral

  6. A close-up of a light brown and white duck, which has a plastic six-pack beer holder around its neck.

  7. Tim Peake, who has ginger hair and is wearing a suit and blue and white tie, is pictured holding a microphone

  8. Aerial view of San Francisco's Outdoor Public Warning System. In the background is a waterway with a large red bridge standing in the water

  9. Time team stood leaning on Farley Moor standing stone

  10. Forestry England buildings at Grizedale. It is a large construction of primarily two-stores and surrounding a courtyard. One of the buildings appears to be a converted stable block with central arch. A country lane snakes into the distance with mature trees at the side. In the background a large hill riases, covered in forest.

  11. The Power family

  12. A large group of herring gulls on a rooftop

  13. A stream, Horton Burn, in Cramlington, has turned a milky-white colour after some kind of substance has turned it that colour.

  14. A person stands under an arch of the monument built to resemble the ruined gates of Negatapam, a town in India. The person is taking in the view over the Cromarty Firth.

  15. An aerial view of a watercourse by the Forest of Dean, there is a road at the bottom edge and tall green trees by the water bed.

  16. Two baby wolverines with light grey fur nestle against the belly of their larger, dark-furred mother, which has an arm around one of the infants. They lie against a wooden fence, and there is a log in the foreground

  17. A picture of the stranded whale. It's a dark black colour with what looks like a few cut marks on its fins. Its on a sandy beach in a little bit of water with two large rocks behind it.

  18. Blue bags of waste lie in a pile at a recycling centre.

  19. The section of coast where Whitburn pipe sits. A bank of long grass sweeps down on to a mainly sandy stretch of beach with a calm sea lapping at the shore. To the left, beyond an area of benches and a lawn, a few buildings can be seen. Two people sit on benches while another is walking on the beach in the distance. There is a large bank of high cloud and an area of clearer sky.

  20. Trees standing in a well-established copse, with dappled sunlight falling on the ground and an open area of ground in the distance.

  21. A woman in an orange high-vis jacket uses a tablet computer resting on a large solar panel

  22. A closeup of Trish, the seal, in water.

  23. Three people stand around a whale which has become beached in Cornwall. The whale is black and is on its side. One of the people around it has a wetsuit on and is holding a bag. Another stood the other side has a jumper and shorts on. A member of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue team is also stood wearing wellington boots, waterproof clothes and a yellow helmet.

  24. A CGI image showing a space station, consisting of cylindrical modules with rectangular solar panels jutting outwards, orbiting Earth.