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  1. The River Thames and Tower Bridge in London on a snowy day. In the bottom right corner there are two people dressed in dark-coloured coats and hats looking at the view behind black railings.

  2. Vivek stands beside litter piled high in large sacks

  3. Silhouette of young male engineer holding laptop computer planning and working for the energy industry and standing beside a wind turbines farm power station at sunset time.

  4. A man in a blue boiler suit wearing a hard hat stands in front of machinery.

  5. Drone footage of an industrial oil and gas construction site, with enormous yellow and orange leg sections and cranes and sheds in the background.

  6. Cars on the motorway

  7. The Isle of Portland in birds-eye view from the sea, showing the port and greenery of the island, surrounded by the sea.

  8. Three campaigners stand in black outside court, wearing metal head-gear which covers their mouths

  9. Rachel Reeves is smartly dressed with tidy dark-brown shoulder-length hair and a fringe across her forehead. She wears a dark blue-black blazer with a V-neck. She seems to be mid-sentence, and is gesticulating slightly, holding her left hand up at her side. She is stood behind a podium which says "kickstart economic growth" in capital white lettering on a red background.

  10. A police car blocks the flow of traffic across six lanes of the M25

  11. The Doomsday Clock is seen set at 89 seconds to midnight. Photo: 28 January 2025

  12. A firefighter drags a hose towards a burning house in the Altadena area of Los Angeles, while another firefighter looks on

  13. The outside of the former Doncaster Sheffield Airport building is covered in windows, it has its name in large white letters and the words Robin Hood on a sign shaped like the tail of a plane

    • BBC Four

  15. Eight protesters in favour of the bill gather outside Parliament. One is dressed as Keir Starmer and wearing a mask with the face of the prime minister. He is holding a sign reading: "Let the CAN bill live"

  16. A woman in a white lab coat is measuring with a device in her hands. She is in a laboratory and there are research posters on the wall behind her.

  17. Peterborough's red brick town hall on Bridge Street

  18. The underside of an array of solar panels. The panels are mounted on tall metal stilts and arranged in long rows, which are disappearing into the distance. There is green grass growing beneath the panels. The sky appears to be overcast and grey.

  19. Christina Welch wears a green sweater while standing near the water in Deluth

  20. Aerial shot shows extent of damage caused by Cwmtillery coal tip slide

    • UK
    A small boat travels between a group of wind turbines that rise from the blue water of the North Sea. Each has a yellow bases and tall grey shafts, with three large blades.

  22. Jeff Bezos wears a grey suit an stands on a stage with his left hand out as he talks, with a graphic of the earth on a screen behind him

  23. A man wearing a turban stands in the centre of Khairpur Nathan Shah town in Pakistan, which has been totally submerged by floodwaters.

    24. A coal-fired power station in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China