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  1. An aerial image of Drax power station showing several cooling towers set among a large site with buildings. The power station is surrounded by green land.

  2. Two male firefighters in uniform smile at the camera with a fire engine behind them. Matt O'Hare on the left of camera is 27 with short blonde hair. Shaun Lincoln on the right is 59 and has short white hair.

  3. Sir Tim Smit is wearing a short-sleeved blue and white shirt and Steve Backshall is in a navy T-shirt with a yellow square with a black image of a spider on it. There are blurred images of children sitting on the ground behind them. There are green trees in the background.

  4. A treated image of industrial chimneys with smoke coming out

  5. A man wearing a grey polo shirt and glasses. He is standing in front of a single-arched red brick bridge.

  6. Small scraps of metal and plastic pictured between grass blades close up.

  7. Alexander Jones is on the left of the picture. He is wearing a blue,red and white check shirt and has a long brown hair tied back. He also has a full beard. Georgina is in the middle, She is wearing a brown outdoor hat, a white cardigan over a green patterned dress. Councillor Patricia Hetherton is on the right of the image. She has a pink jumper tied by the sleeves around her neck over a black top. She has her glasses on the top of her head.

  8. A ferret with a brown and white face peeks out from some flowers and wildlife

  9. There is a man in a dark blue polo shirt which has two symbols on his chest pocket. The top symbol says "Shropshire Council" on a dark blue background. Below it, it says "Shropshire's Great Outdoors." He is stood in a lake and has a duck over to his right.

  10. One of the litter pickers is kneeling on a surfboard while picking rubbish out of water with a grabber and putting it in a blue bag. He is in a wetsuit and has on a life-vest and helmet.

  11. Man in a blue checkered shirt and a bucket hat, standing off the the left of a planter at a farm in Dartmoor. In the background there is a poly-tunnel greenhouse and rolling hills.

  12. Marmalade the seal on the shore of the Thames

  13. People standing at the edge of a waterway, their backs to the camera, looking on anxiously as boats (not visible) retrieve victims

  14. Man in a pink hi-viz coat and rubber gloves holding a jar of murky water while he stares at it in a concerned manner.

  15. An image showing the small island that appeared in Williston Reservoir in British Columbia. It is a patch of heavily-forested land floating on top of clear, blue water that is illuminated by sunlight above. Behind it in the distance is the outline of a mountainous coastline.

  16. A diver swimming behind a giant Australian cuttlefish

  17. A black and white image of a dried-up riverbed. The photo is surrounded by a red and beige rectangle and there is a BBC InDepth logo in the top left

  18. A brown-and-cream sheep with long curved horns wears a black GPS collar around its neck

  19. Before-and-after aerial comparison of an illegal waste site in Kidlington. The lefthand image, dated 16 November 2025, shows a long, narrow mound of waste extending through a wooded strip. The righthand image, dated 21 August 2026, shows the same area after clean-up, with the waste removed and a cleared strip of bare ground visible between trees.

  20. A solar panel hanging on a balcony, which also contains plants and flowers.

  21. Sheen seen smiling, wearing a dark top

  22. A red squirrel sticking their head out beside a tree

  23. Chris Lofts has curly grey hair and a short grey beard. He wears a dark blue short-sleeved shirt underneath a bright orange hi-vis vest with Severn Trent's logo emblazoned on the front.

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    The image shows an octopus underwater on the seabed, with several tentacles spread out and curled around its body. The octopus is pale grey-brown in colour, with visible suction cups lining the underside of its tentacles, and is surrounded by rocks, seaweed and other marine growth in green-tinted water.