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  • At the height of financial uncertainty, we see from a low pavement angle investors queueing outside the Maddox Street branch of the troubled Northern Rock Bank, off Regent Street, Mayfair, in September 2007. Their hard-earned savings appear to be in jeopardy after the bank announced an emergency loan from the Bank of England. Despite reassurances from officials who insisted that the Bank which has £113bn in assets, was not in danger of going bust, concerned men and women wait in line, some with their faces on view and reading newspapers or more commonly, wishing to remain anonymous and keeping their backs to reporters and cameras. The rush of customers demanding their investments almost spelled the demise of the bank with over £2bn removed from accounts in a few days. Northern Rock struggled since money markets seized up over the summer.
    northern_rock01-17-09-2007.jpg
  • A life belt hangs on a cross-shaped post, all painted a vivid red as the sun sinks down below the horizon and beyond the historic Bamburgh Castle, in Northumberland, northern England. Lit with a strong off-camera flash we see the slightly blurred device, invented for saving lives at sea, with a ghostly corona around its form, against a fading blue sky. The rope dangles near the ground, around which the grasses of the dunes blow in a faint breeze. Only the foreground is lit by the flash and the distant castle building and shoreline. We see such equipment and imagine safety and rescue and also jeopardy and hazards at sea. Supplied for those taking risks and making stupid decisions makes these items essential on coastal areas.
    england_beach05-15-12-2007 _1.jpg
  • Making their way across a snow-swept road in Norwood, south London, an elderly couple tread warily as the snow turns to slush. It's a bleak, raw morning as the new snowfall has settled on this suburban street where cars are parked on icy kerbs. Wearing sensible hats and coats and non-slip boots the pensioners are vulnerable to icy black spots which may endanger their stability because old people are susceptible to falls and injury at these hazardous times. A very monochrome landscape, we see little colour. Instead it is a scene of jeopardy and of an uncaring society for its older generations.
    elderly_snow02-18-1991_1.jpg
  • In the year that Britain will start the process of Brexit leaving the European Union, a lifebuoy lies dangling on the ground with the River Thames and the British Houses of Parliament in the background -  a scene of chaos, risk and jeopardy, on 2nd february 2017, in London, England.
    westminster_lifering-01-02-02-2017.jpg
  • The shadows of two passing locals approach the tiny Cameron-run post office hut at Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. We see in the foreground the freshly painted Royal Mail post box which is lit by early morning sunshine telling us that the next collection is at 2.45pm despite it being 8.50am. This branch serves the local community of this Skye town, close to the Skye Bridge and is not only a place to post letters and packages but to buy miscellaneous supplies like newspapers and food at a time when rural sub-post offices are threatened with closure by a financially-troubled Royal Mail. Small villages like this often say that the post office is the ties its folk together, acting as a nucleus for information about village life. Their closure would therefore mean that the fabric of such remote communities are in jeopardy.
    Scotland_post_office02-27-09-2007.jpg
  • A group of young boys play in the calm waters of the Indian Ocean on Meedu Island, in the Republic of the Maldives. The shallows are a safe playground for these kids who swim and splash about in the clear shallows next to two small dhoni boats often used to fish using traditional hand and line, an important source of income for remote communities in this island nation. The sea is perfectly clear blue and the sand coral-white, in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
    maldives207-13-11-2007.jpg
  • An aerial view of unidentified islands seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead the atolls and islands to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding the islands and tiny sandbanks of white coral beach sand, all of which are in jeopardy of rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to being overwhelmed. The only sign of life is the tiny island in the bottom right of frame where holiday resort accommodation ring this dot in the ocean. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
    maldives170-13-11-2007.jpg
  • An aerial view of a completely uninhabited, deserted island seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, an hour's flying time north of Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding a tiny flat island of white coral beach sand, ringing tropical vegetation and scrub that is in jeopardy to rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
    maldives172-13-11-2007.jpg
  • Warning sign of risk on the western slope of Vesuvius with the urban sprawl of Naples in the distance. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, From the Introduction page of the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014).
    vesuvius51-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • The Bay of Naples (population 3.7m) seen from the south-western slopes of the Vesuvius Volcano which last erupted in 1944. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
    vesuvius45-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Using ladders and ropes during a rescue operation, Fire Brigade crews enter the floodlit broken air frame of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. We see the aircraft's tail snapped upright at ninety degrees. Here perished most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Btitain's worst.
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  • A detail of a warning sign of cliff top height dangers at the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England. Approximately four suicides per year are reported after new barriers were added in 1998.
    clifton_bridge-05-26-12-2019.jpg
  • Young tourists climb on top of one of four lions at the base of Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square, on 10th August 2017, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-08-10-08-2017.jpg
  • A lady cyclist pauses behind a bus featuring the Farepilot app in winter traffic on Bishopsgate, on 9th February 2017, in the City of London, England. Since January 2009, 84 cyclists over the age of 16 have been killed following crashes with vehicles in Greater London: 33 women and 51 men three children have also died. According to Transport for London, women make only a quarter of our city’s bike journeys, yet they represent 39 per cent of adult cycling fatalities in the past six-and-a-half years.
    bus_stop-06-09-02-2017.jpg
  • A young girl sits beneath one of the four enormous lion statues at the base of Nelsons column, on 17th January 2017, in Trafalgar Square, London England. The column dedicated to the heroic naval Admiral Lord Nelson is guarded by the four monumental bronze lions sculpted by Sir Edwin Landseer. In recent years there have been numerous falls from the lions resulting in serious injury including the necessity of the air ambulance.
    trafalgar_square-01-17-01-2017.jpg
  • A statue of Atlas is seemingly about to drop the globe onto a person standing below, in the doorway of a City of London institution. Seen from across the street, we look at a wide view of number 1 King Street in the heart of the capital's financial district. The person holds a green folder, similar to the colour of the building's address panel - standing in the doorway talks on his smartphone unaware of the comical and otherwise, dangerous possibility of a heavy object about to fall on to his head.
    atlas_building03-23-03-2015_1.jpg
  • At the beginning of the second week of the UKs Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a used discaded surgical mask and glove lies in the grass alongside passing young child on a scooter in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-39-30-03-2020.jpg
  • As a man cycles downhill with a child on his shoulders, a local lady takes her morning walk with her dogs along Kostelni street in Holesovice district, Prague 7, on 20th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
    prague-221-20-03-2018.jpg
  • As two workers carefully reverse from a restaurant with a table, one takes his eye off the job in hand and looks admiringly at a passing lady, on 20th May 2002, in Soho, London, England.
    admiring_girl-20-05-2002.jpg
  • One of the warning signs alerting motorists of tidal dangers on the causeway between the tidal Lindisfarne island and the Northumbrian mainland, on 27th September 2017, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. Despite tide timetables posted all over the area, drivers often mis-time their crossings, their vehicles ending up submerged in salt water. The small Lindisfarne population of just over 160 is swelled by the influx of over 650,000 visitors from all over the world every year. A tidal Island: Lindisfarne is a tidal island in that access is by a paved causeway which is covered by the North Sea twice in every 24 hour period. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was reestablished.
    lindisfarne-53-27-09-2017_1.jpg
  • A brave but confident cleaning contractor abseils from 20 Fenchurch Street aka the Walkie Talkie building in the capitals oldest financial district aka The Square Mile, on 14th August 2017, in the City of London, England.
    walkie_talkie-04-14-08-2017.jpg
  • A young tourist climbs on top of one of four lions at the base of Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square, on 10th August 2017, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-07-10-08-2017.jpg
  • Firefighters with the London Fire Brigade use a heat-seeking camera, looking down into the River Thames waters to search for a person who jumped off Westminster Bridge, on 29th March 2017, in London, England.
    firemen_search-02-29-03-2017.jpg
  • 3 of 3 in a photo sequence showing children ignoring a no climbing safety sign, hauling themselves on to the plinth of Nelson's Column, on 15th December 2016, in Trafalgar Square, next to a Christmas nativity scene in London, England. The Greater London Authority (GLA) has banned tourists climbing the 148-year-old lions due to fears they are being damaged, with potentially dangerous cracks appearing as well as the indignity of having rubbish pushed in their mouths. There has also been a serious injury resulting in an air ambulance helicopter landing to evacuate to hospital in 2015.
    trafalgar_climbing-01-15-12-2016.jpg
  • New road layouts with still to open pedestrian crossings at the busy road junction at Elephant & Castle in the south London borough of Lambeth. The new design used by drivers and pedestrians is highly controversial due to the nature of its changed traffic direction and merging of cycling lanes into vehicle paths. The cover hides the button pressed by crossing Londoners until the whole junction opens for general use.
    road_crossing01-27-04-2016.jpg
  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius469-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Local farmer tends crops in a fertile field on his smallholding, located on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano, seen in the distance which last erupted in 1944.   Tending his plants on land near Somma Vesuviana, his family have owned for generations, he and his elderly family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
    vesuvius263-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Crater geology of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. Vesuvius last erupted in 1944. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius89-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • At the base of the Monument which commemorates the Great Fire of London, a courier driver from the United States Postal Service (UPS), stands with his head in his hands as if in reaction to the conflagration behind. Above him is a giant mural, whose huge figures depict the panic and evacuation during the disaster that struck London between 2nd of  September and Wednesday, 5th September 1666. The modern man in company uniform is wearing the same brown colours as that of King Charles II and his courtier who are also reacting to the news of the city's burning timber buildings. 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St. Paul's Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the City authorities were lost in the high fanned winds. It is estimated that it destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • A solo teenage player takes a shot at the net on a basketball court at the Cyprea Marine Foods (CMF) processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives in the Indian Ocean. It is dusk near the equator and soon dark. The landscape is barren except for some young trees on the waterfront where two people are walking in the cool tropical air. Seen in the last, darkening light of day, the player leaps upwards and his arm stays where his ball left his hand to roll around the ring. The man is enjoying some leisure time at the end of his working day, possibly an employee of CMF who handle newly-caught tuna fish for export to the EU and the UK's supermarket food industry.
    maldives162-12-11-2007.jpg
  • As the UK reacts to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement of Lockdown 2 during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, a staff member dresses a female mannequin in the window of clothing retailer Topshop, on 2nd November 2020, in London, England. From midnight on Thursday, all non-essential shops, bars, restaurants and other small businesses will have to closed, according to government Covid restrictions - and for a minimum of 4 weeks in the run-up to Christmas.
    coronavirus_retail03-02-11-2020.jpg
  • As the UK reacts to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's announcement of Lockdown 2 during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, a man walks past male mannequins of a branch of clothing retailer Topshop, on 2nd November 2020, in London, England. From midnight on Thursday, all non-essential shops, bars, restaurants and other small businesses will have to closed, according to government Covid restrictions - and for a minimum of 4 weeks in the run-up to Christmas.
    coronavirus_retail01-02-11-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of the second week of the UKs Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and local daily exercise, a local dog sniffs and chews a used discaded surgical glove that lies in the grass in Ruskin Park, a green public space in the borough of Lambeth, south London, on 30th March 2020, in London.
    coronavirus_RuskinPark-42-30-03-2020.jpg
  • Lunchtime City workers avoid a dead, headless bird on the ground at Leadenhall in the City of London, aka The Square Mile the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
    city_people-29-04-09-2019.jpg
  • A pedestrian distracted with his mobile phone walks past a broken warning construction work figure - one of many up and down both sides of the Tottenham Court Road, warns pedestrians of a change of road layout, from one-way to two-way traffic, on 7th May 2019, in London, England.
    both_ways-09-07-05-2019.jpg
  • A young man sits on an exterior ledge, benneath apartments at Waterloo, on 5th March 2019, in London, England.
    southbank_apartments-01-05-03-2019.jpg
  • A mermaid in the window of a seaside business warns in both the English and Welsh languages, of the dangers of litter on 13th September 2018, in Barmouth, Gwynedd, Wales.
    barmouth_mermaid-01-13-09-2018.jpg
  • At the last moment, a pedestrian wearing headphones avoids a leaning post, on 19th August 2017, in London, England.
    leaning_post-01-19-08-2017.jpg
  • A brave but confident cleaning contractor abseils from 20 Fenchurch Street aka the Walkie Talkie building in the capitals oldest financial district aka The Square Mile, on 14th August 2017, in the City of London, England.
    walkie_talkie-02-14-08-2017.jpg
  • A City worker narrowly avoids a workmans dangerous stepladders, on 14th August 2017, in London, England.
    city_people-06-14-08-2017.jpg
  • Safety warning sign on the beach at Clevedon, on 22nd April 2017, in North Somerset, England.
    england_seaside-03-22-04-2017.jpg
  • As a potential public liability insurance claim, an obstacle in the road surface where a damaged bollard lies horizontal, knocked over by a vehicle on 13th February 2017, in the City of London, United Kingdom.
    fallen_bollard-08-13-02-2017.jpg
  • Broken green glass lying in a pile on double-yellow lines in a south London gutter, on 2nd October September 2016, at the National Gallery, London, England.
    gutter_glass-01-02-10-2016.jpg
  • 2 of 2 in a sequence showing a husband and wife messing around on a street where they attempt to race backwards on cobbles, on 20th July, in Porto, Portugal. In the first picture we see the man upright and confidently winning the race with the lady - while in the second, he has has fallen over completely, with legs in the air.
    portugal_porto-58-20-07-2016.jpg
  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius416-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Religious shrine and old lava on the crater edge of Vesuvius volcano, Italy. The Madonna is seen holding a baby Jesus with a smoking volcano in the background. Hardened lava rock has formed a new crust o the crater edge where visitors can view over to see the bottom of the abyss. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius141-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Religious shrine and old lava on the crater edge of Vesuvius volcano, Italy. The Madonna is seen holding a baby Jesus with a smoking volcano in the background. Hardened lava rock has formed a new crust o the crater edge where visitors can view over to see the bottom of the abyss. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius135-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Tourists' warning sign embedded in lava rock at the dormant crater edge of Vesuvius volcano. Telling visitors not to climb over fences and endanger their lives, the sign shows an exclamation mark. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius100-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Warning sign of risk on the western slope of Vesuvius with the urban sprawl of Naples in the distance. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, From the Introduction page of the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2014).
    vesuvius49-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • An elderly lady jaywalker crosses a road junction on a red pedestrian light in central London during temporary street improvements. With other road-users staying safely on the pavement after the lights have changed in waiting traffic's favour, the old woman blatantly or innocently makes her way across the crossing risking being run over by dangerous drivers. Behind her is a hum effigy of a workman contractor that holds a sign discouraging pedestrians from crossing on red lights.
    jay_walkers05-02-04-2012_1.jpg
  • Sinister silhouettes in an underpass tunnel with walls covered with urban graffiti. The tunnel is located near Waterloo mainline station and the concrete bunker-like place has become a favourite landscape for dedicated street artists who are free to cover the walls and pavements (sidewalks) with expressions of their urban artistic ideology and political protest. In daytime, this environment is not as intimidating as it appears and Londoners pass through as a shortcut beneath an otherwise complex route of roadways and railway tracks above. There are also periodic festivals of street art attracting the best of artists including the secretive Banksy.
    graffiti_tunnel02-22-06-2012_1.jpg
  • Two park users walk towards a beech tree which is leaning at forty-five degrees away from a path through a grove of others in Ruskin Park, a south London green space, on 31st October 2020, in London, England.
    leaning_tree01-31-10-2020.jpg
  • Striped hazard and Do Not Use tape is stretched across a smashed illuminated advertising panel at a bus stop shelter in Camberwell, on 11th January 2019, in Southwark, south London, England.
    danger_tape-01-11-01-2019.jpg
  • The words STOP and LOOK sprayed on to the pavement where cars cross the pavement near Kings College Hospital in Camberwell, on 5th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • The words STOP and LOOK sprayed on to the pavement where cars cross the pavement near Kings College Hospital in Camberwell, on 5th July 2018, in London, England.
    stop_look-01-05-07-2018.jpg
  • Criss-crossed hazard tape on smashed glass in Vaclav Havel Airport, on 20th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
    prague-250-20-03-2018.jpg
  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
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  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
    otterburn-01-28-09-2017.jpg
  • A youth performs a dangerous wheelie while riding on the wrong side of the road during a mass ride-through the West End,  on 19th August 2017, in London, England.
    wheelie_boy-01-19-08-2017.jpg
  • Tourists on top of one of four lions at the base of Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square, on 10th August 2017, in London, England.
    trafalgar_square-05-10-08-2017.jpg
  • Damaged bricks on the wall outside a polling station on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections in Half Moon Lane, Dulwich, on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
    elction_day-26-08-06-2017.jpg
  • While a tourist takes a selfie, firefighters with the London Fire Brigade use a heat-seeking camera, looking down into the River Thames waters to search for a person who jumped off Westminster Bridge, on 29th March 2017, in London, England.
    firemen_search-01-29-03-2017.jpg
  • The remains of a demolished phone kiosk after a collision with a vehicle, on 2nd March 2017, in Camberwell, London borough of Southwark, England.
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  • 1 of 2 in a sequence showing a husband and wife messing around on a street where they attempt to race backwards on cobbles, on 20th July, in Porto, Portugal. In the first picture we see the man upright and confidently winning the race with the lady - while in the second, he has has fallen over completely, with legs in the air.
    portugal_porto-53-20-07-2016.jpg
  • Felicia and Baldassare and De Simons, in their kitchen in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesuvius which last erupted in 1944. Their family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
    vesuvius315-29-05-2014_1.jpg
  • Crater geology of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. Vesuvius last erupted in 1944. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Crater geology of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. Vesuvius last erupted in 1944. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Aerial view of Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) the front-line town in north Darfur during a tribal war resulting from colonial land-use. Basic housing is seen against the barren and scorched red earth in this area of south-western Sudan. The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers (3,500,000 sq mi), it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe.
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  • Seen from a hillside opposite, with the clear blue backdrop of the snow-covered Himalayan mountain peaks, a Nepalese family crouch on the hilltop to rest during a family walk from their community village near Gorkha, Central Nepal. In the middle of the picture, a young girl twirls and dances across the clearing as her parents and siblings watch, drawfed by the powerfully- dominant range of natural features that form part of the highest altitudes on earth although Gorkha is only 3281 feet (about 1000 meters) above sea level. These peoples' homes cling to the sides of impressive mountains that draw tens of thousands of travellers to this region to trek the paths and conservation sanctuaries of this fast-developing Buddhist and Hindu Kingdom.
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  • As stormy waves crash over its super-structure and funnel, the Liberian-registered MV Braer oil tanker spills 84,700 tonnes of crude oil into the North Sea. It sits below its water-line with crude oil leaking from its ruptured tanks after running ground in hurricane force winds, beeching itself on these rocks in Quendale Bay, west of Sunburgh Head, the Shetland Islands, Scotland. In fast-fading light, this ecological disaster occured in a beautiful region of Great Britain affecting much native wildlife although the Gulfaks oil the Braer was carrying is lighter therefore more biodegradable and able to disperse better than other North Sea crude.
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  • An aerial view of an unidentified island community seen from a regional aircraft passing overhead atolls and islands, a few miles to the north Malé, capital of the Indian Ocean Republic of the Maldives. We see the perfectly clear blue sea surrounding an island of white coral beach sand, a harbour, holiday apartments and importantly coastal defence barriers that may defend against rising sea levels as global warming makes sea level locations like this vulnerable to flooding. The Maldives comprise of twenty-six atolls, featuring 1,192 coral islands of which 80 are holiday resorts with 200 inhabited by indigenous communities. This Islamic nation of 298 sq km (115 sq miles), lie seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka.
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  • A policeman and the devastated fuselage of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. The aircraft's tail snapped upright at ninety degrees and here perished most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Britain's worst.
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  • Emergency crews and the devastated fuselage of a British Midland Airways Boeing 737-400 series jet airliner which lies on an embankment of the M1 motorway at Kegworth, near East Midlands Airport in Leicestershire, England. On the night of 8th January 1989, flight 92 crashed due to the shutting down of the wrong, malfunctioning engine. Attempting an emergency landing, 47 people died and 74 people, including seven members of the flight crew, sustained serious injuries. The aircraft's tail snapped upright at ninety degrees and here perished most of the passenger fatalities. The devastation was hampered by woodland and the fire fighters are attempting to rescue survivors or extract those killed in this air disaster that proved one of Britain's worst.
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  • Hermit, Tom Leppard, 72, has lived in seclusion at this unidentified spot on the Isle of Skye, Scotland for 22 years. He sits contemplating his quiet life in a self-made shelter largely cut-off from the outside world. Wind and rain-proof against harsh Scottish winters, his army survival skills keep him fit and healthy but his memory is fading and suffers muscular ailments. None of his possessions suffer from damp or mildew because everything he owns is wrapped in plastic containers carefully stored in special holes about his camp. Few know his exact whereabouts but concerned locals visit when weather prevents him from crossing a 2km-wide Loch in an old canoe. His days are spent washing, cleaning and carrying out maintenance jobs that keeps his home clean and fresh. Tom is a former solder and sailor and chose this spot when he sought ultimate solitude.
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  • A detail of a handmade package of notes at the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England.
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  • A workman kneels on a pallet, raised at its maximum height limit up on a forklift and at the top of a ladder while brushing down an old clapboard warehouse, on 29th May 2019, in Faversham, Kent, England.
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  • Yellow and black hazard tape stretches along the damaged barrier of a car park at Nailsea Lake, on 21st April 2019, in Nailsea, North Somerset, England.
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  • A caution sign for a wet floor, after the cleaning of the entrance and stairs of a Westminster pub on Charlotte Street, on 16th January 2019, in London, England.
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  • Striped hazard and Do Not Use tape is stretched across a smashed illuminated advertising panel at a bus stop shelter in Camberwell, on 11th January 2019, in Southwark, south London, England.
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  • A tall plain tree leans at a significant angle towards period homes on Camberwell Grove, on 11th November 2018, in London, England.
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  • Hazard tape is wrapped around a large branch of a 100 year-old ash tree in full leaf which as detached and fallen during strong overnight winds that followed the UK heatwave which ended over the weekend, on 29th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • A red warning flag flies on the perimeter during military live firing at Otterburn Ranges, on 28th September 2017, in Otterburn, Northumberland, England. Twenty-three per cent of Northumberland National Park is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used as a military training area though they encourage as much access to the area as possible. Sometimes areas are cordoned off from the public for military exercises. Visitors are welcome outside of live firing times if no red flags are displayed. When military exercises are happening, red flags around the boundaries indicate restricted access. Visitors are told not to pick up, kick or remove any object and not to stray off the public rights of way or tarmac roads.
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  • Helped by her partner, a woman tourist attempts to climb on to one of the four lions at the base of Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square, on 10th August 2017, in London, England.
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  • Damaged bricks on the wall outside a polling station on the morning of the UK 2017 general elections in Half Moon Lane, Dulwich, on 8th June 2017, in London, England.
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  • Safety warning sign on the beach at Clevedon, on 22nd April 2017, in North Somerset, England.
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  • Two pedestrians cross the cobbled Rua Sa da Bandeira, followed closely by a pair of Segway riding tourists, on 21st July, in Porto, Portugal. Segway tours have become controversial additions to the European city sightseeing scene, already being banned in Barcelona and Prague. But in Portuguese cities like Lisbon and Porto, Segway travellers still share narrow and busy streets and often, pavements, with locals on foot.
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  • Portuguese office workers have left their desks and PCs to climb on to a buildings ledge to watch their national football team during their victory procession through the capitals streets, the day after the Euro 2016 final with France, on 11th July 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. Lined up along the concrete ledge near Praca Marques de Pombal in the largely corporate and banking district of the city, they take photos and cheer their favourite players, including the national hero/deity, Christiano Ronaldo.
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  • A warning sign in four languages telling sea swimmers of the dangers on this Portuguese beach that only one side is guarded by lifesavers, on 18th July 2016, Costa Nova, near Aveira, Portugal. The Portuguese, French, English and German writing should inform most of those thinking of entering the rough waters, especially with mist rolling in.
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  • Boughs heavy with apricots, grapes, lemons and plums are tinged pink by the setting sun on land owned by Baldassare and Felicia De Simons in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Lemons grow on fertile soil on a smallholding located on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano, seen in the distance which last erupted in 1944. Growing on land near Somma Vesuviana, the family have owned for generations would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Crater edge of dormant Vesuvius volcano, near Naples, Italy. Vesuvius last erupted in 1944. Mount Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the burying and destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. That eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ash and fumes to a height of 33 km (20.5 mi), spewing molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of 1.5 million tons per second. From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • The Bay of Naples (population 3.7m) seen from the south-western slopes of the Vesuvius Volcano which last erupted in 1944. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
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  • The Bay of Naples (population 3.7m) seen from the south-western slopes of the Vesuvius Volcano which last erupted in 1944. The national emergency plan to protect the inhabitants from a possible eruption of the Vesuvius area has as its baseline the explosive event of 1631. Drafted by the scientific community has identified three areas with different hazard defined: the red zone, yellow zone and the blue zone. The red zone is the area immediately surrounding the volcano, and is in greater danger as potentially subject to invasion by pyroclastic flows, or mixtures of gases and solids at high temperature which, sliding along the slopes of the volcano at high speed can destroy in a short time everything is on its way. Pyroclastic flows probably will not grow at 360 ° in the neighborhood of the volcano, but will head in one or more preferential directions
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  • Household refuse pollutes a coral beach on Meedu Island, an indigenous community in the Republic of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Packaging, foodstuffs and general waste has been tossed away on this otherwise beautiful place, north of the capital Male. Unfortunately, the practice of tossing away one's rubbish is a normal practice in this culture, the local people selfishly unconcerned about the future of their habitat and the health of their community. Only a few miles from Meedu are islands that serve as holiday resorts where families from Europe travel by air for the perffect vacation - unaware that fly-tipping is so widespread that it threatens this nation's worldwide status as a paradise on earth.
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  • Sinister silhouettes in an underpass tunnel with walls covered with urban graffiti. The tunnel is located near Waterloo mainline station and the concrete bunker-like place has become a favourite landscape for dedicated street artists who are free to cover the walls and pavements (sidewalks) with expressions of their urban artistic ideology and political protest. In daytime, this environment is not as intimidating as it appears and Londoners pass through as a shortcut beneath an otherwise complex route of roadways and railway tracks above. There are also periodic festivals of street art attracting the best of artists including the secretive Banksy.
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  • Hermit, Tom Leppard 72, has been living in seclusion at this unidentified spot on the Isle of Skye, Scotland for 22 years. He crouches as he emerges from his self-made shelter, largely cut-off from the outside world. Converting the north-facing dry-stone walls into a home against harsh Scottish winters, he uses a knowledge of survival skills to help him stay fit and largely healthy although his memory is fading and muscular ailments trouble him. Few know his exact whereabouts but concerned locals visit when weather prevents him from crossing a 2km-wide Loch in an old canoe. A tarpaulin roof is weighted down by heavy rocks as winds can be fierce this far north. His days are spent washing, cleaning and carrying out maintenance jobs that keeps his home clean and fresh. Tom is a former solder and sailor and chose this spot when he sought solitude.
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  • The view of the Clifton Suspension Bridge and river Severn gorge, historically a commmon location for suicides and where the mental health charity Samaritans raise awareness for vulernable people over the Christmas and New year holiday, on 26th December 2019, in Bristol, England. The bridge opened 1864 is built to a design by William Henry Barlow and John Hawkshaw, based on an earlier design by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Approximately four suicides per year are reported after new barriers were added in 1998.
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  • Lunchtime City workers avoid a dead, headless bird on the ground at Leadenhall in the City of London, aka The Square Mile the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
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  • Lunchtime City workers avoid a dead, headless bird on the ground at Leadenhall in the City of London, aka The Square Mile the capitals financial district, on 3rd September 2019, in London, England.
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  • Children play on the rocks at Clevedon Pier, on 27th December 2018, in Clevedon, North Somerset, UK.
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