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  1. A group of people hold homemade signs. One reads "species not faeces", another says "waste in the water, otterly disgusting", while a third says "1'924 sewage spills every day". Other signs are visible but not legible.

  2. A small shark pictured in water

  3. A small shark swimming in water.

  4. President of the Ulster Farmers' Union William Irvine leaning on a farm gate on a sunny day. He has short, grey hair and is wearing a red, white and blue checked shirt under a navy bodywarmer. There are trees and open fields behind him.

  5. A pebble beach. The seawater is dark and muddy. The sky is bright blue.

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

  7. artist's impression of development

  8. A northern rockhopper penguin chick sits in a clover butter dish and looks directly at the camera.

  9. Head and shoulders shot of Dean Lennox Kelly playing Shakespeare in BBC drama Dr Who. He has a beard, a collar-less black jacket and white shirt and is in a dark room

  10. Water running through the hydro system at Osney Lock.

  11. A view of a shopping street looking downhill. There is a row of shops on either side of the cobbled street. The shops are closed with shutters down on a few of them.

  12. 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.

  13. A peregrine falcon chick sat on top of a building. The chick has white feathers with a black strip across its eyes and a grey beak. It is peeping out from between two stone pillars.

  14. A photo of the seated skeleton inside a make-shift shed which shows its right arm resting on its lap and its left arm suspended in the air, as if resting on a stick

  15. A birds-eye view of the refurbished water recycling centre in Langport. There are round water basins and storage facilities. There is a car park at the edge of the site and around it are green fields.

  16. A police officer checks the paperwork of a lorry driver at a port border.

  17. Whitish sewage now crusted over sits on top of gravel in neat front garden

  18. A green tractor is parked on a Westminster pavement under a grey winter sky next to a bare tree and in front of the QEII Centre. On the front of the tractor is a protest placard that reads No Farming, No Food, No Future. Pedestrians pass by.

  19. An aerial view of Loch Ness in Fort Augustus

  20. Three red two-seat military jets, with Union flags on their tales, fly in a cloudy blue sky above green farmland

  21. Girl with brown hair, pink shirt and black waistcoat, holding a brown cow that has a blue and red rosette on it

  22. A woman with braided hair holds a book in her hand and smiles at the camera. She sits on a yellow armchair with a cushion. To the right is a glass table with a lamp on it, and a magazine called Life propped up against the lamp.

  23. A black falcon with yellow around the eyes and on the beak sits by one chick with an unhatched egg to its right.

  24. A bin filed with household waste, such as empty milk bottles and banana skins