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  • An elderly lady makes her way from her community village Memorial Hall which she has been volunteering this winter morning as part of a charity funds raising event. The lady might be old and frail but her spirit is such that she still finds the time to integrate into community life and remains active despite her years. Walking beneath the wrought-iron sign in Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire, she edges under tentatively to make her way home wearing a quilted coat and her wedding ring on her gnarled hands. A chilly late-morning sun shines across the architecture of the building and this is the look of a lady happy with her morning's activities with fellow parishioners.
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  • An elderly gentleman prunes his precious crop of fresh red roses from his front garden that sits astride the small River Wandle at Carshalton, south London. trimming off their heads, he s dressed in a straw hat and white apron. He is a very active gardener, the nurturing of plants and flowers being his passion now that he is of retirement age after a lifetime of work. Now he enjoys the rewards of his labours from mother earth in this lush plot of his that looks every bit the perfect English cottage garden despite it being in an urban inner-city.
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  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
    french_farmer10-12-1997_1.jpg
  • A queen bee marked with green. The queen is the centre of the hive and beekeepers give them a color to make them easier to spot when checking on the hive dureingthe honey season. The color is different from year to year. Keeping bees is a growing hobby in London and the hives and apiaries can be found in back gardens and roof tops across the capital.
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  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi in Shanghai, China. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 082_alamy.jpg
  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi in Shanghai, China. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 075.jpg
  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi in Shanghai, China. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 085.jpg
  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi in Shanghai, China. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 081_alamy.jpg
  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 084_1.jpg
  • Closed down and overgrown windows and conservatories shop in borders between Moseley and Kings Heath in Birmingham, United Kingdom. During the recession and economic downturn for the last decade small businesses have struggled to keep trading, and especially in less prosperous parts of the country, like the Midlands.
    20181127_closed down shop_003.jpg
  • Closed down and overgrown windows and conservatories shop in borders between Moseley and Kings Heath in Birmingham, United Kingdom. During the recession and economic downturn for the last decade small businesses have struggled to keep trading, and especially in less prosperous parts of the country, like the Midlands.
    20181127_closed down shop_001.jpg
  • Closed down and overgrown windows and conservatories shop in borders between Moseley and Kings Heath in Birmingham, United Kingdom. During the recession and economic downturn for the last decade small businesses have struggled to keep trading, and especially in less prosperous parts of the country, like the Midlands.
    20181127_closed down shop_004.jpg
  • Closed down and overgrown windows and conservatories shop in borders between Moseley and Kings Heath in Birmingham, United Kingdom. During the recession and economic downturn for the last decade small businesses have struggled to keep trading, and especially in less prosperous parts of the country, like the Midlands.
    20181127_closed down shop_005.jpg
  • Closed down and overgrown windows and conservatories shop in borders between Moseley and Kings Heath in Birmingham, United Kingdom. During the recession and economic downturn for the last decade small businesses have struggled to keep trading, and especially in less prosperous parts of the country, like the Midlands.
    20181127_closed down shop_002.jpg
  • Striding urgently are a group of rail commuters emerging from London Bridge main line station in central London along a station concourse. Marching in step, the strangers are on their way to work in the City of London or Southwark on the south bank of the Thames. They are all passing-by a mobile smoothie drink kiosk that has the slogan "Guaranteed to keep you going till lunch." London Bridge station is one of 18 railway stations managed by Network Rail and is a major transport terminus and interchange for central London and serves over 42 million people a year. The tube station serves the Jubilee Line and the Bank branch of the Northern Line.
    london_bridge_commuters051-12-09-200...jpg
  • At the beginning of another week of Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, when the government is considering its options for a gradual opening of business with social distancing, a male customer sits in the chair of the app-based mobile barbershop, Trim-It, for clients needing a bespoke hair cutting service delivered to their London doorsteps, on 4th May 2020, in Pimlico, London, England.
    coronavirus_haircut-02-04-05-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, a solitary person walks past the gates of a local hand car wash and valeting business under one of the railway bridges at Loughborough Junction, closed in accordance with the governments forced closure of businesses and lockdown, on 1st April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_lambeth-02-01-04-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of another week of Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, when the government is considering its options for a gradual opening of business with social distancing, a male customer sits in the chair of the app-based mobile barbershop, Trim-It, for clients needing a bespoke hair cutting service delivered to their London doorsteps, on 4th May 2020, in Pimlico, London, England.
    coronavirus_haircut-03-04-05-2020.jpg
  • Three dads are looking their respective children of varying ages - from a baby to an infant and 8-year old. In the foreground a father reads his tabloid newspaper as his toddler sleeps contentedly in its pushchair, a dummy in the mouth and a blanket scross its body to keep out a chilly breeze. Further back another man stands waiting for his partner with a baby, also asleep in the buggy. And thirdly, a male pushes his daughter in pink up a small slope on a bicycle that uses stablizers. It is a busy scene on Paignton seafront on the Devon coast. Elsewhere children and adults of all ages walk along the esplanade enjoying an overcast and windy day on holiday. This theatrical scene is about the ideal father and the family unit.
    england_beach06-15-12-2007_1.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown eases and small shops and businesses re-open, a quote from 1980s British band, The Polices song Dont Stand So Close To Me has been chalked on to the pavement outside a bar, asking customers to keep their social distance, on 19th July 2020, in Whitstable, Kent, England.
    whitstable_shops03-19-07-2020.jpg
  • Young Shanghainese shield themselves from the sun with umbrellas as they cross the road at the busy junction next to the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum in Shanghai, China. This area at the edge of People’s Square, and at one of the main exits for People’s Square Metro is one of Shanghai’s busiest places in the heart of the downtown area. Young Chinese women tend to shield themselves from the sun to keep their skin lighter as western skin-tones are highly desired.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 171_alamy.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-27-29-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-24-29-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-14-29-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-15-29-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-36-29-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-25-29-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-20-29-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers, runners and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-21-29-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers, runners and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-12-29-05-2020.jpg
  • With the UK death toll reaching 38,161, a further 324 victims in the last 24hrs, and the governments pandemic lockdown still in effect, mainly walkers and sightseers now cross at what would normally be rush-hour on London Bridge, which has quickly been converted to a social distancing thoroughfare over the river Thames where pedestrians should keep to the left of a green centreline, on 29th May 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-18-29-05-2020.jpg
  • The face of a customer who is working out at a fitness business is seen through the screen of a closed gym during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th October 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city07-26-10-2020.jpg
  • The UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said it is very likely the UK is in a significant recession due to the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, as figures show the economy contracting at the fastest pace since the financial crisis. And in the face of continued lockdown on the high street such as here on the Walworth Road in south London, a queue of shippers observe social distancing in front of a Cashino and other shuttered businesses, on 13th May 2020, in London, England. Cashino is a British gambling company, with over 148 high street venues and an online presence. It is part of Praesepe Holdings Ltd. owned by the German gaming and gambling company Gauselmann.
    coronavirus_bus_journey-05-13-05-202...jpg
  • As the number of new Coronavirus cases in the UK climbs to 201,101, with UK deaths now standing at 30,076 - the highest recorded in Europe, <br />
hazard tape stretches across a normally busy plaza outside the National Theatre remains closed to the public, during the continuing Covid lockdown, on 6th May 2020, in south London, England.
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  • As the number of new Coronavirus cases in the UK climbs to 201,101, with UK deaths now standing at 30,076 - the highest recorded in Europe, <br />
hazard tape stretches across a normally busy plaza outside the National Theatre remains closed to the public, during the continuing Covid lockdown, on 6th May 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_southbank-01-06-05-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, faded seats and red bar mats are seen in the window of The Railway, a closed pub opposite the railway arches at the local Overground station on Clapham High Street, all in accordance with the governments forced lockdown and closure of businesses, on 1st April 2020, in south London, England.
    coronavirus_clapham-06-01-04-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, in accordance with the governments forced lockdown and closure of businesses, an empty arcade and closed small local businesses in Brixton Village market, on 31st March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Brixton-05-31-03-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, in accordance with the governments forced lockdown and closure of businesses, mannequin heads in the window of a small local businesses in Brixton Village market, on 31st March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Brixton-06-31-03-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, in accordance with the governments forced lockdown and closure of businesses, an image of Carmen Miranda appears against the repeated lettering of Brixton Village market, a now empty arcade and closed small local businesses in south London, on 31st March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Brixton-04-31-03-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, in accordance with the governments forced lockdown and closure of businesses, the faces of young south Londoners still hang above an empty arcade and closed small local businesses in Brixton Village market, on 31st March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Brixton-01-31-03-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of the second week of the UKs Coronavirus lockdown and in accordance with government guidelines for social distancing and the forced closure of all shops and local businesses, the wooden fingers of a mannequin holds a sign saying Take Care, in the window of a clothing shop in East Dulwich, on 30th March 2020, in London.
    coronavirus_EasyDulwich-05-30-03-202...jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners start to work from home, shops like Doughnut Time experience a lack of trade where an employee passes time by reading his book, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_westminster-24-19-03-202...jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners start to work from home, a detail of closure at the Comedy Store where we see a list of recent comic acts, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_westminster-10-19-03-202...jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners start to work from home, a detail of closure at the Comedy Store where we see a list of recent comic acts, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_westminster-11-19-03-202...jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners start to work from home, a detail of a notice of closure of the Prince of Wales Theatre where Book of Mormon was playing up until only days ago, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_westminster-08-19-03-202...jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners work from home, drinks tables remain empty at a City of London bar, a normally favourite lunchtime haunt for financial workers, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-09-19-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners work from home, drinks tables remain empty at a City of London bar, a normally favourite lunchtime haunt for financial workers, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-12-19-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners work from home, a closed bar remains empty, one of many normally favourite lunchtime haunt for financial workers in the City of London, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-11-19-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners work from home, tables remain empty in Leadenhall Market, a normally favourite lunchtime haunt for financial workers in the City of London, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-07-19-03-2020.jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governmentss urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UKs capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, few people are outside the Noel Coward Theatre where the play, Dear Evan Hansen was showing before forced closure, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the UK government urged that all Britons should avoid non-essential travel abroad in order to combat the Coronavirus pandemic in Britain and small businesses suffer from lack of trade, a snack and drinks vendor wipes down handles and surfaces every 15mins outside Kings Cross railway station, on 17th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • Four friends gather every morning in the summer at Brockwell (Brixton) Lido. This is a favourite place in the capital for varied groups of people  to meet, swim or just hang out like these London taxi drivers who regularly meet for exercise sessions, accumulating sun tans during long periods in the sunshine. Bare except for their costumes, they stretch and yawn, read a newspaper and lean against a railing all the while swapping anecdotes and complaining grumpily about the state of the world near a brick wall that retains heat. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
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  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, in accordance with the governments forced lockdown and closure of businesses, the faces of young south Londoners still hang above an empty arcade and closed small local businesses in Brixton Village market, on 31st March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Brixton-03-31-03-2020.jpg
  • As the number of UK Coronavirus cases rose to over 8,000, it was announced that thousands of 15-minute home tests could be made available within days to those self-isolating with symptoms. Fading chalk writing is written on the pavement outside a now closed general store business selling gloves and masks in Camberwell, south London, on 25th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Walworth-26-25-03-2020.jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governmentss urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UKs capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, few people are outside the Noel Coward Theatre where the play, Dear Evan Hansen was showing before forced closure, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Theatreland-32-18-03-202...jpg
  • Breathing through her mouth, a lady wearing a bikini costume lifts her head supported with her hands to start another sit-up repetition during a morning exercise session at Brockwell Lido, Brixton South London. With other bathers also lying in sun on the warm poolside pavement, some white and another Rastafarian with dreadlocks, it's a largely mixed crowd ethnically. Brockwell Lido in Herne Hill SE24 was originally built in 1937 at a time of coastal and city pool-building but went into decline when bathers preferred to holiday in warmer Spain. Its revival happened when local entrepreneurs re-opened the business and it now enjoys a reputation for some of the best urban swims in the UK.
    lido01-08-25-1995.jpg
  • Londoners pass a social distancing sign that urges the public to keep 2 metres apart on Oxford Street during the second (Autumn) wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 8th October, 2020, in London, England. (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    coronavirus_social_distance05-08-10-...jpg
  • A Sale offer sign and mannequins are seen in the window of London’s Long Acre (street) clothing shop. Both mannequins are undressed apart for their underwear – a red bra and pants for the female and a pair of boxer shorts for the male. Further reductions are also promised if the potential customer enters the store. With an economic recession taking hold on Britain’s high streets and exclusive retail outlets, deals and offers are vital to keep spending and turnover up.
    sale_mannequins01-20-01-2011.jpg
  • The head of a freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish lies inert on a filleting table at a refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcass has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The filleting is performed by Sri Lankan ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
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  • A P4 bus service destination Lewisham Station climbs Herne Hill early after fresh overnight snowfall in the south London area. During a mid-winter morning, when commuters are struggling to reach their work places, the capital also finds it hard for transport and infrastructure to keep running as normal. With its headlights on half-beam, the snow is still making this hill treacherous to climb as this heavy vehicle again starts from the bus stop, having lost its traction on the slippery road surface. A passenger alights, carefully stepping down from the bus onto the snowy kerb as other people walk uphill, preferring to make their own way. The snow rests on surrounding Victorian house roofs and in the distance; it is a bleak day in the misty urban light where high-rise flats (apartments) can be seen.
    london_snow07-02-12-2010.jpg
  • Two-metre social distancing signs advise Oxford Street shoppers to keep apart outside Selfridges, according to government guidelines during the second wave of the UK Coronavirus pandemic, on 30th October 2020, in London, England.
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  • Two-metre social distancing signs advise Oxford Street shoppers to keep apart outside Selfridges, according to government guidelines during the second wave of the UK Coronavirus pandemic, on 30th October 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_oxfordstreet04-30-10-202...jpg
  • Londoners pass a social distancing sign that urges the public to keep 2 metres apart on Oxford Street during the second (Autumn) wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 8th October, 2020, in London, England. (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    coronavirus_social_distance03-08-10-...jpg
  • Londoners pass beneath a social distancing sign that urges the public to keep 2 metres apart on Oxford Street during the second (Autumn) wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 8th October, 2020, in London, England. (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
    coronavirus_social_distance01-08-10-...jpg
  • With the UKs Coronavirus pandemic lockdown easing with preparations going ahead for the opening of more public transport and services plus shops, another 151 have died from Covid-19 bringing the total in the last 24hrs to 41,279. A wider range of retailers are due to re-open their doors for non-essential purchases next Monday 15th June and hand sanitisers and advice on social distancing have been placed at regular locations along Oxford Street where pasengers are told to keep their distance while <br />
descending the steps at the one-way entrance into the Underground at Oxford Circus, on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
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  • With the UK death toll reaching 34,813, with a further 541 victims in the last 24hrs, the governments pandemic lockdown has eased to another stage and drinkers keep their social distances while enjoying pints from an unusually open pub in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 1st June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city-06-01-06-2020.jpg
  • Adult pigs covered in mud sit in a pen at the Jia Hua antibiotic-free pig farm in Tongxiang, China, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Hog farmer Shen Jian-Ping has spent 4.7 million yuan $700,000 giving his swine roomier, better-ventilated digs and there are three full-time veterinarians to help keep the 465-sow herd healthy. Recent African Swine Flu has had a major impact on pig farms across the nation.
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  • Young pigs covered in mud stand in a pen at the Jia Hua antibiotic-free pig farm in Tongxiang, China, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Hog farmer Shen Jian-Ping has spent 4.7 million yuan $700,000 giving his swine roomier, better-ventilated digs and there are three full-time veterinarians to help keep the 465-sow herd healthy. Recent African Swine Flu has had a major impact on pig farms across the nation.
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  • An employee walk through a hallway connecting pig pens at the Jia Hua antibiotic-free pig farm in Tongxiang, China, on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. Hog farmer Shen Jian-Ping has spent 4.7 million yuan $700,000 giving his swine roomier, better-ventilated digs and there are three full-time veterinarians to help keep the 465-sow herd healthy. Recent African Swine Flu has had a major impact on pig farms across the nation.
    QS2016Archive_589.jpg
  • A businessman reads a 1992 edition of the Daily Express whose headline announces that Prime Minister John Major is fighting the Pound Crisis, on a bench in the City of London aka The Square Mile, the capitals financial centre, on 18th September 1992, in London, England. Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Majors Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ERM after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM.
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  • A businessman reads a 1992 edition of the Daily Express whose headline announces that Prime Minister John Major is fighting the Pound Crisis, on a bench in the City of London aka The Square Mile, the capitals financial centre, on 18th September 1992, in London, England. Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Majors Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism ERM after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM.
    pound_crisis-18-09-1992.jpg
  • A Sikh man walks past large images of western fashion model girls. in a scene of culture clashes, we see the religious man striding along the street wearing a traditional turban, beneath modern western women wearing the styles of clothing of the day. In Sikhism, is used to show others that they represent the embodiment of Sikh teachings, the love of the Guru and sigma to do good deeds, It also protects Sikh's long unshorn hair and keep hair clean.
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  • Giant letters lure potential customers into this branch of Hobbs with a Sale offer sign. Their mannequins are seen in the window of London’s Long Acre (street) clothing shop - a line-up of womens’ fashion variations displayed in the window on a winter’s afternoon. Further reductions are also promised if the potential customer enters the store. With an economic recession taking hold on Britain’s high streets and exclusive retail outlets, deals and offers are vital to keep spending and turnover up.
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  • A passer-by walks past a strong design of the front entrance of a retail shop. Giant letters lure potential customers into this branch of Hobbs with a Sale offer sign. Their mannequins are seen in the window of London’s Long Acre (street) clothing shop - a line-up of womens’ fashion variations displayed in the window on a winter’s afternoon. Further reductions are also promised if the potential customer enters the store. With an economic recession taking hold on Britain’s high streets and exclusive retail outlets, deals and offers are vital to keep spending and turnover up.
    sale_mannequins05-20-01-2011.jpg
  • A man stands outside the entrance of a retail shop, awaiting his partner to emerge. Giant letters lure potential customers into this branch of Hobbs with a Sale offer sign. Their mannequins are seen in the window of London’s Long Acre (street) clothing shop - a line-up of womens’ fashion variations displayed in the window on a winter’s afternoon. Further reductions are also promised if the potential customer enters the store. With an economic recession taking hold on Britain’s high streets and exclusive retail outlets, deals and offers are vital to keep spending and turnover up.
    sale_mannequins03-20-01-2011.jpg
  • Rolls of turf are rolled up by exhibition workers at the end of a long day at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Removing the real grass from at the CFM stand (a company formed from SNECMA and General Electric jet engines) that manufactures a family of 7,200 commercial and military jet engines for Airbus and Boeing airliners. The men bend over to make a tight roll of organic lawn to keep it fresh and watered overnight before another hot day in this hall. Alongside them, a giant turbofan engine is seen, its huge turbine blades lit by artificial lights. The Paris Air Show is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry whose purpose is to demonstrate military and civilian aircraft to potential customers.
    paris_air_show224-20-06-2007.jpg
  • A tuna fish's sharp yellow fin protrudes from shredded ice at the Cyprea Marine Foods processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives135-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A chunk of prime yellow fin tuna fish steak lies after filleting on a table in a processing factory on the island of Himmafushi, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and having just been line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been encased in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan butchers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives120-12-11-2007.jpg
  • The tail and sharp barbs of a freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish lies inert on a filleting table at a refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcass has been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed at sea to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The filleting is performed by Sri Lankan ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw the rest.
    maldives98-12-11-2007.jpg
  • An employee of Cyprea Marine Foods fillets freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives93-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Two employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet freshly-caught  yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth and just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives89-12-11-2007.jpg
  • A team of employees of Cyprea Marine Foods fillet freshly-caught yellow fin tuna fish at the company's refrigerated processing factory on Himmafushi island, Maldives. The 50kg carcasses have been swimming across the Indian Ocean non-stop since birth, just line-caught by freelance boat crews who share profits for only high-quality fish that passes stringent health tests. The tuna has been in ice since being landed to keep a low-temperature body core so the workers cut out the prime flesh as quickly as possible before boxing the resulting chunks of steak for export by air to Europe and in particular for customers such as UK's Sainsbury's supermarket. The Sri Lankan workers are ex-fishermen and widowers, having lost their families during the Tsunami. Using extremely sharp knives, they skillfully remove valuable meat and throw away the rest.
    maldives85-12-11-2007.jpg
  • Sale sign and mannequins in a window of clothing emporium Hobbs in London's Long Acre. Giant letters lure potential customers into this branch of Hobbs with a Sale offer sign. Their mannequins are seen in the window of London’s Long Acre (street) clothing shop - a line-up of womens’ fashion variations displayed in the window on a winter’s afternoon. Further reductions are also promised if the potential customer enters the store. With an economic recession taking hold on Britain’s high streets and exclusive retail outlets, deals and offers are vital to keep spending and turnover up.
    hobbs_sale1-09-12-2011_1.jpg
  • Two smart businesswomen sit side-by-side with both their heads tilted back into two sinks in a City of Londopn hair salon and enjoy the pampering of a shampoo and re-styling. With matching red towels over their shoulders to ensure their clothing is kept dry, the ladies keep their eyes closed and relax as two paiurs of hands from two stylists massage the shampoo into their scalps. We also see the scene reversed, relfected in the mirror, an the echo of everything just mentioned.
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  • Striped covers for electrical cables turn a right-angle turn to the left towards power cabinets  which are numbered 1 to 6 at the European Space Agency's Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket Booster Integration Building. Railings ensure that pedestrians keep to the  walkways without endangering health and safety, according to EU law. Elsewhere in this giant building the boosters that propel ESA rockets into space are integrated with their payloads.
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  • A city worker buys a copy of the Evening Standard with a headline relating to the ERM crisis in 1992, known as Black Wednesday which referred to the events of 16 September 1992 when the British Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after they were unable to keep it above its agreed lower limit. George Soros, the most high profile of the currency market investors, made over US$1 billion profit by short selling sterling. In 1997 the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion, with the actual cost being £3.3 billion which was revealed in 2005 under the Freedom of Information Act
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  • Freydeen , Bird seller , for fifteen years, poses for the camera at Kabul’s bird market , Ka Farushi<br />
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The market is a narrow lane crammed with stalls and tiny open-fronted shops where shop keepers sell birds of all descriptions -  canaries, budgerigars, songbirds and pigeons as well as specially trained fighting birds like quails and partridges.  There is a long tradition of bird keeping in Afghanistan. Although it was banned under the Taliban, the market is once again vibrant and alive with the sounds of birdsong
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  • Moving fast past a farmhouse building on a busy UK A road, unseen traffic leaves its light trails on an otherwise dark winter night near the giant DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Some rooms are lit in this remote residence which show signs of occupation. Red tail lights from cars, lorries and trucks streak by with tall traces of container traffic leaves light on the picture, diagonally leaving their mark. It is a very busy highway on which to own a home but this infrastructure is a vital route that keeps Britain's logistics moving across the country 24/7.
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  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. As Londoners start to work from home, observing government advice for social distancing, Brazilian waiter Luis and his au pair girlfriend, Paula from Spain, kiss and hug in an unusually quiet Piccadilly Circus, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. Londoners start to work from home and a couple of travellers wear face masks during their journey across the capital on the London Underground, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_transport-23-19-03-2020.jpg
  • As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads across the UK, businesses and entertainment venues not already closed with the threat of job losses, struggle to stay open with growing rumours of a lockdown and travel restrictions around the capital. Londoners start to work from home leading to deserted platform barriers at Blackfriars railway station, on 19th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_transport-08-19-03-2020.jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governmentss urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UKs capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, a masked couple walk past the Cambridge Theatre where Harry Potter was playing until forced closure, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governmentss urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UKs capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, a masked young woman stands in Chinatown, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_Theatreland-41-18-03-202...jpg
  • As the effects of Coronavirus continues to close down businesses and places of entertainment, and because of the governmentss urge for home-working and avoidence of social gatherings, the West End of the UKs capital is unusually quieter than normal on a mid-week evening. On the day that the death toll reached 104 and that British schools would close indefinitely from the end of the week, the Evening Standard newspaper headlines at Leicester Square tube station with central London being the UKs pandemic hotspot, on 18th March 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the UKs Coronavirus death toll during the governments social distancing lockdown, rose by 384 to 33,998, and the R rate of infection is reported to be between 0.7 and 1.0, south Londoners go about their business on the Walworth Road in Southwark, on 15th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • At the beginning of another week of Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, when the government is considering its options for a gradual opening of business with social distancing, during their daily exercise in Ruskin Park in south London, two women friends hold a conversation while observing social distancing of the two metres recommended by the government, on 4th May 2020, in Lambeth, London, England.
    coronavirus_park-05-04-05-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of another week of Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, when the government is considering its options for a gradual opening of business with social distancing, during their daily exercise in Ruskin Park in south London, two women friends hold a conversation while observing social distancing of the two metres recommended by the government, on 4th May 2020, in Lambeth, London, England.
    coronavirus_park-01-04-05-2020.jpg
  • At the beginning of another week of Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, when the government is considering its options for a gradual opening of business with social distancing, during their daily exercise in Ruskin Park in south London, two women friends hold a conversation while observing social distancing of the two metres recommended by the government, on 4th May 2020, in Lambeth, London, England.
    coronavirus_park-03-04-05-2020.jpg
  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, a man runs past a free handwash station fitted for the benefit of the public outside a local business in Clapham High Street, on 1st April 2020, in London, England.
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  • As the second week of the Coronavirus lockdown continues around the capital, and the UK death toll rising by 563 to 2,325, with 800,000 reported cases of Covid-19 worldwide, a young woman walks past a free handwash station fitted for the benefit of the public outside a local business in Clapham High Street, on 1st April 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_clapham-04-01-04-2020.jpg
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