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    1. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband making a speech at the Energy UK conference

      • Fekky stands among trees wearing a green jacket. He has short black hair.

      • Owl with bright yellow eyes looking into camera.

      • A man standing on a path lined by trees and bushes. He has grey hair and a grey beard. He is wearing a black fleece.

      • Two firefighters pour water from hoses on a large pile of cardboard and other recycled material while dealing with a fire. Smoke is coming from the pile. The lorry the items were in is parked near the firefighters. A fire engine is next to the lorry.

      • A mother little tern, with a light grey body and a mainly black head, sits next to her offspring on a beach strewn with pebbles. The chick has a very fluffy white body and a yellow and black dappled head. Both birds have an orange beak with a black tip.

      • An Asian hornet mid flight. It has yellow legs, a black and yellow body.

      • Truro tide gate, looking up towards the city of Truro. Water is in between the tidal barriers. It is low tide. Trees and green spaces are on land on either side of the water. Properties are in the distance.

      • To men walking towards the Google headquarters campus on 23 July 2025 in California's Mountain View

      • Heidi Alexander smiling with a pair of scissors above her head having cut through a purple ribbon.

      • An aerial image of the 14 metre deep sinkhole with orange hydraulic bracing in place to secure the hole surrounded by houses on the estate.

      • An artist's impression of the exterior of the Great Equatorial Telescope, with a large onion-shaped dome surrounded by buildings and trees. There is a small café area outside the front of the buildings.

      • A landscape picture of fields around Noke - where a solar farm is being planned.

      • A row of green bottles trundles along the production line ready to be filled with gin at the packing factory

      • Two people in wetsuits and blue protective equipment dive from the bow of a boat into turquoise water.

      • A rocket launches at the center of the image with plumes of smoke surrounding it. The sky in the background is blue with white and grey clouds.

      • Mumbai

      • a aerial view of a huge sink hole in the back garden and on part of a street

      • Two hens are standing in a yard with a fence behind them.

      • A small flying insect is yellow and black in colour. It has six small thin yellow legs. It is mid-air and its wings are fluttering.

      • Hamza Yassin, in a blue shirt with red flowers, smiles in The One Show studio.

      • A person places a bottle of wine in a cardboard box in a warehouse. A grey machine with "siat" written on it in blue letters is next to the box. A grey Stanley knife is on top of the machine.

      • A skunk, with its head sticking out in a garden, with leaves around it and grass. The animals has a white stripe down its head, to its nose and white fur on its head.

      • An aerial view of a housing estate whose roads and gardens are submerged under brown flood water. Several parked cars are visible in the flooded streets.