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  1. East Lindsey District Council worker Derrick Whitworth wearing an orange jacket holding a burnt clump of what appears to be plastic pellets on the shoreline at Skegness.

  2. Split screen of vehicles piled up and on fire in New Mexico

  3. A generic picture of rows of solar panels set up in a field. There are small yellow buttercups sprouting in the grass, and the sky is a faint blue.

  4. The green fields off Neachells Lane

  5. A Eurasian bittern or great bittern bird among wetland reeds.

  6. A large clump of charred plastic sat on a golden sandy beach. The sky is blue. Sand dunes are to the right of the plastic and the sea to the left.

  7. Emma Morris with blond hair and a black dress with white collar. She is inside a building with glass windows and coloured furniture. There is grass and trees outside.

  8. Village road with greenery on either side. On the left is a 30mph sign on a pole above the Freeby sign

  9. NASA astronaut Suni Williams is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

  10. Dolphins are seen swimming next to a domed capsule with a rib motorboat floating next to it and a carrier boat in the background, on a deep blue sea with blue sky in the background, shortly after the astronauts splashed down in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida, on 18 March

  11. Four parachutes deployed as capsule floats on sea

  12. A space capsule plunging into water as the astronauts descended over the Atalantic off the coast of Florida against a blue sky on 18 March

  13. Coder Road at Ludlow Business Park with warehouse buildings and parked cars. A road leads up to several large warehouses with brick lower sections and corrugated steel upper portions.

  14. Jersey Airport photographed from a drone on a clear day. The air traffic control tower is visible, as are aircraft hangars and the car park. The sea is visible in the far distance.

  15. A dolphin in the sea with head and top of body visible above water

  16. An African penguin on the South African coast.

  17. An artist's impression of an energy storage plant with lots of large battery units

  18. Tim Peake in astronaut gear smiles to the camera with his thumbs up.

  19. A flock of gulls sitting on the roof of a house. Some of them are stationary while others are mid-flight.

  20. Nasa astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore pose for photos at International Space Station (ISS)

  21. An aerial/birds eye view shot of the proposed solar farm site. The area is rural with lots of green open fields and trees. The site appears to cover six fields and is marked out clear in red.

  22. A red and white research station on top of a large rocky, snow-covered outcrop, in the middle of Antarctica

  23. Butch is wearing a blue uniform and goggles. He appears to be fixing something and is wearing blue gloves. Suni is to positioned to Butch's right looking over his shoulder and watching. She has the same blue uniform but no goggles or gloves.

  24. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams onboard the ISS smiling as they pose in the orbiting lab. Butch is looking out from within a white circular hatch, while Suni is lying just outside it.