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  1. Conservator Jacqui Hyman, who is wearing a floral blouse and purple protective gloves, smiles as she sits alongside the newly conserved hat. The hat is made of ochre-coloured felt, with a wide brim.

  2. Two fish swimming in the shallow water of Rainton Burn. The two fish are about eight inches long and brown. Grass is growing up to the river bank and leaves are hanging down over the water.

  3. A field of sunflowers - yellow faces and green leaves.

  4. A teenage girl with long blonde hair is sitting in an office wearing a navy blue T-shirt. There is a computer on a desk to her right.

  5. Colin Cooley smiles at the camera and holds the handaxe up beside him. He wears a red hard helmet, orange high-vis jacket and gloves.

  6. Harrison Schmitt is photographed next to the United States flag on the lunar surface during the Apollo 17 mission. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet Earth in the distant background. Its red and white stripes are also reflected in the visor of Schmitt's helmet.

  7. A woman wearing a green shirt and shorts gestures to a large dark grey dinosaur puppet in front of crash barriers and a crowd of spectators, including young children in a shopping street, with a charity shop and a Tesco Express in the background.

  8. A man in a harness repairs an overhead power line. He is wearing a yellow hard hat and high-vis orange vest. He is perched at the top of a wooden pole holding power lines, with trees in the foreground and hills in the background.

  9. A generic view of the River Ribble, showing flat, calm water surrounded by large trees on the banks

  10. Two students in the trenches digging for skeletons and artefacts

  11. A picture of a barn owl in flight, with the background blurred. The owl has a white face and white and brown wings. Wooden perches are to the left and brown of the owl.

  12. This artist’s concept shows what a gas giant orbiting Alpha Centauri A could look like. In this concept, Alpha Centauri A is depicted at the upper left of the planet, while the other Sun-like star in the system, Alpha Centauri B, is at the upper right. Our Sun is shown as a small dot of light between those two stars.

  13. Two people standing in a large field of bright yellow sunflowers which extends to the horizon. A man with grey hair and glasses is wearing a checked shirt and a woman on his right is wearing a dark polo shirt. There is an overcast sky.

  14. A male firefighter dressed in navy blue uniform is holding a swan gently around its body and neck. He is stood in a green field, bordered by a hedge and trees, with a house in the background.

  15. A Mid Devon District Council recycling lorry parked in a parking area. Blue and cloudy skies.

  16. A close up view of several empty wine bottles in a plastic recycling box