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  • Two employees of the Japanese aircraft manufacturer Mitsubishi sit in a full-scale model of their MRJ at the Paris Air Show, Le Bourget France. Seated in different rows of this stylish small regional jet, they awkwardly stare expressionless, straight ahead and although the seats are real, the mock-up fuselage is in the middle of an exhibition hall. The MRJ is a next generation jetliner with 70 or 90 seat economy class configurations, the first regional jet to adopt composite materials for its wings and vertical fins on significant scale. The Paris Air Show expo is a commercial air show, organised by the French aerospace industry who demonstrate military and civilian aircraft equipment to interested customers.
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  • Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is seated against a gold leaf backdrop of Islamic texts in a reception room of his palace in central Khartoum. Al-Bashir is head of the National Congress Party and has been in power since October 1993. In 2009 he was indicted for war crimes by the ICC, (International Criminal Court) and represented as a bloodstained dictator by elements of the international media though is seemingly loved and respected for his role in empowering women. Secretary General of the National Council for Children’s Welfare, Amira Elfadil, says “He comes from within us all. He has a military background but he is a simple man, a man of the people, with good Islamic values. He speaks from his heart.”
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  • A businessman sits reading documents in sunlight by the window of a company foyer in the City of London, the capital's financial district. Seated in the foyer he has chosen the brightness in an otherwise dark location, where he can concentrate on reading the notes resting on his lap. A theme of small squares appear on the glass, currently popular in the City of London, the capital's oldest, financial district.
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  • Man looking at a sculpture of two seated nudes on the South Bank in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Dr Safaa Elagib Adam reads documents on the journey by air to the firstever international Conference on Womens' Challenge in Darfur. Seated in a chartered Russian Antonov aircraft during flight to Al Fasher (also spelled, Al-Fashir) where women from remote parts of Sudan gathered to discuss peace and political issues. The short flight saves her a hazardous five-day drive by road, known for extreme acts of violence by rebels and Janjaweed soldiers. The Sudanese Women General Union has 27,000 branches all over Sudan, including Darfur. They have representatives in all rural villages, across communities of around 80 tribes and clans. The women of Sudan are wives, mothers, farmers a real force and historically, there have been female leaders.
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  • Tourist family sit on one of one of the four lions designed by Landseer at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. Seated astride of the lion's back that forms one corner of the national memorial to one of Britain's national heroes Admiral Horatio Nelson. The sculpture is by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA was an English painter well known for his paintings of animals—particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer's works, however, are these lions in Trafalgar Square.
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  • Seated in a meeting room within the presidential palace is Dr Ghazi Salahudin Atabani, a special advisor to the Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir during a media briefing in Khartoum. Atabani is leader of the majority National Congress Party, a trusted advisor to the President and an articulate activist in strategic studies and leadership training.
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  • Seated in a meeting room within the presidential palace is Dr Ghazi Salahudin Atabani, a special advisor to the Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir during a media briefing in Khartoum. Atabani is leader of the majority National Congress Party, a trusted advisor to the President and an articulate activist in strategic studies and leadership training.
    sudan250-24-05-2009_1_1.jpg
  • As a summer sun sets behind evening clouds, there is a moment of peace for a solitary man, silhouetted while seated on bench in the cemetery of the Holy Rude Church in Stirling, Scotland. Taking a while to collect his thoughts, to consider aspects of a troubled life or simply to think spiritual meanings, the man has found tranquillity and inner-strength from this beauty spot, a mound overlooking the headstones and graves of Scottish nobility.
    stirling_cemetery08-30-07-2010-1_1_1.jpg
  • On the very last day of British rule over its Hong Kong colony, we see an elegant but headless life-size clothing mannequin seated on a chair on the shop floor of Chinese clothing brand Shanghai Tang. In the brand's flagship store, the last hours tick away before the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Shanghai Tang is an international clothing chain company, founded in 1994 by Hong Kong businessman David Tang Wing Cheung. This was the original store in Hong Kong's Pedder Street (in Central) providing the lead for 24 outlets worldwide.
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  • A mannequin of Queen Elizabeth appears in a hotel window on the seafront of Weston-super-Mare, north Somerset. Seated on a throne and holding one of her beloved Corgi pet dogs, the monarch has been placed in the front window of the Midland Hotel on the seafront of this seaside town in England's south-west. She looks cheap and nasty, a not-so welcoming effigy for arriving guests but typical perhaps, of some UK holiday towns still desperate to attract elderly royalists rather than the young.
    hotel_queen01-04-04-2015_1.jpg
  • A lady musician is seated at Barbican underground station in central London. The platform is actually above ground and the woman sits patiently awaiting the next train to arrive. her musical instrument stands against her bench and she watches to her right, past the London Underground sign telling us the station's name. The Barbican is Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue presenting a diverse range of art, music, theatre, dance, film and education events. It is also home to the London Symphony Orchestra. The Guildhall School of Music & Drama is also here - one of Europe's leading conservatoires, offering musicians, actors, stage managers and theatre technicians an inspiring environment in which to develop as artists and professionals.
    barbican_station-18-05-1993_1.jpg
  • A mannequin of Queen Elizabeth appears in a hotel window on the seafront of Weston-super-Mare, north Somerset. Seated on a throne and holding one of her beloved Corgi pet dogs, the monarch has been placed in the front window of the Midland Hotel on the seafront of this seaside town in England's south-west. She looks cheap and nasty, a not-so welcoming effigy for arriving guests but typical perhaps, of some UK holiday towns still desperate to attract elderly royalists rather than the young.
    hotel_queen02-04-04-2015_1.jpg
  • Schoolboys in grey suits walk past resting disabled woman. As the young men file past in a queue to enter St Paul's Cathedral for an event in central London. The lady in red sits in a wheelie seat, seemingly dozing or asleep and unaware of the busy activity all around her. The youths are wearing sober grey suits as part of theirt school or college uniform - all smart boys with fine futures ahead of them.
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  • Young air cadet sits in Hawk cockpit of the Red Arrows, Britain's RAF aerobatic team during visit to RAF Scampton. RAF students visit this base on a regular basis to learn about their heroes who fly air displays around the UK and Europe. The young lad has been given the chance to sit in the cockpit of this BAE Systems hawk, sitting in the Martin-Baker ejection seat that helps saves lives in the world's jet fighters.
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  • Man relaxing in a chair in the doorway to his shop. Rangoon, Burma 2001
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  • Nga Htat Gyi Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma 2001
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  • The Buddha (2000) by artist Niki de Saint Phalle in the grounds of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The sculpture is formed from a steel base covered in polyurethane foam. The surface is made from pieces of glass, mirror, ceramic tile and polished stones – termed ‘M&Ms’ by the artist.
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  • A husband, wife, child and their dog are caravan campers who are relaxing in chairs outside their caravan’s awning. Their pet dog lies with its belly up relishing the attention of being tickled by its ‘mother’ while the man leans over to help his child with a toy. Their table has Sun cream and sun glasses showing us this is high summer at the site at Looe in Devon, England, run by the prestigious Caravan Club of Great Britain whose membership stands around 1 million members. Formed in 1907 the club boasts over 900 staff and an annual turnover of around £100 million. Rules about pitching vans and how to behave with waste, children and noise are strictly controlled and often, sites specialise more for families with kids or for older people wanting more peace.
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  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seen on TV wagging a finger during exchanges at the dispatch box with Labour opposition. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Through the window of a hairdressers business in central London  we see a pair of hands massaging a scalp of a male customer who is in a chair for his haircut. In the foreground is a large vertical image of a model whose red hair falls across her face and who wears a light jacket with a pocket dotted scarf. Through a transparent space in this picture we see the anonymous assistant's fingers spread across her client's head  kneading and stimulating his hair. He sits with eyes closed  enjoying the moment of utter self-indulgence and vanity.
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  • A businessman leaning against the plate glass window of an office building, sits checking messages on the pavement outside an office block, on 1st September 2016, in the City of London, England UK.
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  • Tunisia 2011.  Road Tataouine to Remada. Camels at the Berber cafe and tourist excursion centre.
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  • A man sits in a chair at the entrance to a commercial property in Holborn, on 19th February 2021, in London, England.
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  • The Buddha (2000) by artist Niki de Saint Phalle in the grounds of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The sculpture is formed from a steel base covered in polyurethane foam. The surface is made from pieces of glass, mirror, ceramic tile and polished stones – termed ‘M&Ms’ by the artist.
    yorkshire_sculpture_park09-28-09-201...jpg
  • Strangers both using smartphones and ignoring a Wet Paint sign, on 16th February 2017, outside Royal Exchange and the WW1 memorial, in the City of London, England.
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  • As evening light fades, campers who are relaxing in the awning of their caravan are having a sociable time with friends. Their table has drinks and an outdoor campers' light and we see through the open flap of their awning at a caravan site at Looe in Devon, England. Other vehicles can be seen in the distance, all lined up against the hedged-border of this field, run by the prestigious Caravan Club of Great Britain whose membership stands around 1 million members. Formed in 1907 the club boasts over 900 staff and an annual turnover of around £100 million. Rules about pitching vans and how to behave with waste, children and noise are strictly controlled and often, sites specialise more for families with kids or for older people wanting more peace.
    uk_caravans02-13-08-2000_1.jpg
  • In late afternoon, three conscript soldiers  of the Polish army are dressed in brown uniforms eating ice cream cones in Plac Zamkowy, outside the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish army (Wojsko Polskie) is the name applied to the military forces of Poland. The name has been used since the early 19th century, although it can be used to refer to earlier formations as well. Polish Armed Forces consist of the Army (Wojsko LÄ…dowe), Navy (Marynarka Wojenna) and Air Force (SiÅ‚y Powietrzne) branches and are under the command of the Ministry of Defense (Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej). The combined Polish armed forces consist of 215,000 active duty personnel and in addition 450,000 reserves. The armed forces are made up of conscripts who serve for a period of 9 months, and professional soldiers.
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  • A man sits beneath a large Jesus crucifix on the wall of a church in the town of Klausen-Chiusa in the south Tyrol, Italy.South Tyrol is a very religious and traditional country. The weekly walk to Mass and the celebration of religious festivals and processions are part of the culture and tradition in South Tyrol. In almost every house you will find a cross on a corner with consecrated palm branches over there. Also in the stable there are consecrated palm branches to keep away every disaster. South Tyroleans are almost all Catholics and quite conservative.
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  • Young European lady sits on the bonnet of a car in Blantyre, Malawi in the mid-1960s. Perched on the front of the vehicle, the woman wears a pink dress with a pink paisley pattern, popular in the sixties. Smiling to the viewer, she sits upright with hands across her lap, having removed her sun galasses which she holds folded up in her hand. There is a lush tropical garden behind belonging to an unknown owner in the African Malawi town.
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  • A lady concentrates in a cluttered office unit beneath corporate artwork in Ernst & Young's Norman Foster-designed building. The oval-shaped picture depicts an esasperated-looking female rolling her eyes to the ceiling while her contemporary below stares down at her laptop surrounded by the paraphernalia of her accounting London job. Dressed in an open-neck shirt and wearing glasses, the woman at work is busy and preoccupied with the job in hand of auditing a company's accounts. Despite all the 385,000 square feet in the European headquarters on the River Thames, there is no spare space in this tiny office that she shares with another employee. The Fine Art has been supplied by Anderson O'Day and E & Y have invested in 500,000 Pounds of office art for their 114,000 employees in 700 locations across 140 countries around the world.
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  • Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough watches video of killer whale sequence from The Trials of Life at home in London. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not care for the term. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
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  • Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough watches video of killer whale sequence from The Trials of Life at home in London. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not care for the term. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
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  • Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough watches video of killer whale sequence from The Trials of Life at home in London. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not care for the term. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
    david_attenborough04-17-09-1990_1.jpg
  • Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough watches video of killer whale sequence from The Trials of Life at home in London. Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 1926) is a British broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not care for the term. He is a younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.
    david_attenborough02-17-09-1990_1.jpg
  • Two young businessmen sit outside a deli/cafe laughing over the contents of a laptop in the City of London. The two associates seem to find the subject of their meeting amusing and smile with each other on a street opposite Royal Exchange in the heart of the capital's financial district, founded by the Romans in the 1st Century. In the background we see the lettering on the window of the Italian cafe who boast worldwide locations like Milan, Rome, Turin, London, Tokyo and New York - all presitgious cities for business and fine dining.
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  • It is late in the City of London, long after offices workers have left their desks in the capital's financial district. But some  commuters like this young man have stayed behind in the Square Mile (the oldest, historic quarter first inhabited by the Romans) to drink with friends. He has consumned so much alcohol that he's passed-out, asleep on a bench on the platform at Bank station, immediately beneath the busy streets at the Bank of England. The station is otherwise deserted and is possibly just before - or after - the last train has left to take others home in the east end or the west.
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  • A week after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, shrines and memorials started appearing in public places at various squares and street locations in Manhattan that commemorated the killed and missing citizens, lost in the ruins of terrorist devastation. Candle-lit vigils like this were maintained for weeks as people came together and shared a common grief, singing and praying and often denouncing evil in the world. Emotions were running high and many citizens offered spiritual aide such as food and drink. In outpourings of grief, anger and patriotic rhetoric, flags were flown as never before as  America sought to express their emotions and unity.
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  • A week after the September 11th attacks in New York and Washington DC, shrines and memorials started appearing in public places at various squares and street locations in Manhattan that commemorated the killed and missing citizens, lost in the ruins of terrorist devastation. Candle-lit vigils like this were maintained for weeks as people came together and shared a common grief, singing and praying and displaying American flags and often denouncing evil in the world. Emotions were running high and many citizens offered spiritual aide such as food and drink. In outpourings of grief, anger and patriotic rhetoric, flags were flown as never before as  America sought to express their emotions and unity.
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  • A moderately wealthy Egyptian family of different ages sit on their courtyard steps of their home in the village of Bairat, on the West Bank of Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Egypt is the most populous country in the Middle East and the third-most populous on the African continent (after Nigeria and Ethiopia). About 95% of the country's 82.5 million (2012 est.) people live along the banks of the Nile throughout the Nile Delta, which fans out north of Cairo; and along the Suez Canal. These regions are among the world's most densely populated, containing an average of over 3,820 persons per square mile (1,540 per km².), as compared to 181 persons per sq. mi. for the country as a whole.
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  • Before the latest announcement by Boris Johnson, about a second Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, opera-lovers await the start of a rehearsal of the first socially-distanced performance by English National Opera (ENO) in the London Coliseum which has remained closed throughout summer, on 24th October 2020, in London, England. Musicians and singers on stage are separated appropriate to government restrictions and audience members are seated with same household groups. The Marriage of Figaro was ENO's last show on 14th March, and the Coliseum has stayed closed until now. The UK’s theatre ticket revenue contributes £1.28bn to the nation’s economy, in which there are 290,000 jobs (70% are at risk) so the government has announced a financial rescue package for the Arts industry, a £1.15bn support for cultural organisations in England that is made up of £880m in grants and £270m of repayable loans. The 2,395-seat Coliseum (1904) is a Baroque revival (Wrenaissance) style theatre, built as one of West End's largest and most luxurious variety theatres.
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  • Five customers are seated in the window of the Manhattan Coffee Company on Shaftesbury Avenue, in London's Chinatown. 3 of the 5 are of Chinese ethnicity, one is talking on a mobile phone and the other two seem to be girlfriends. To their left is a man in deep thought but in front of every person there are red beakers. It is a successful shop with plenty of customers. The interior lighting is orange and red, making a cosy and welcoming atmosphere and two large signs in English indicate there are 30 more seats downstairs allowing more to spend their money and for more business to be made.
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  • Seen through the window of a generic central London restaurant, we see a family, possibly tourists, seated in full view of the street's passers-by, while ordering their dinners from a waiter. The man is standing over them, writing down a mother's orders while at the next row of seats, a man is also telling his own waiter what his dinner will be. An Open sign has been placed to attract more trade into this business, a favourite among tourists visiting Theatreland in the capital's West End. It is early evening and the background street is dark with other businesses illuminated. Other couples and customers are also sitting at tables waiting for their food to arrive and in the foreground, a young man sips a glass of Coke from a straw.
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  • In the weeks before Christmas day on December 25th, the Lord Mayor of London hosts an annual party at his official town hall - the Guildhall - in the historic financial district of the City of London. Inviting Greater London's borough Mayors, they can each invite worthy children for an afternoon's fancy dress party. Two children dressed as Tarzan with a small monkey and a Grenadier Guard with a bearskin, and are seated on the Mayoral throne like two princes in a royal court. The chairs are coated with gold leaf with red cushioned fabric and with the Corporation of London's crest on the top. It looks resplendent and opulent. The two kids are sat looking small in the chairs seemingly made for giants but behind them is another boy dressed as a grey rabbit with floppy ears running past. The Guildhall has been used as a town hall for several hundred years, and is still the ceremonial centre of the City of London. The term Guildhall refers both to the whole building and to its main room, which is a medieval style great hall similar to those at many Oxbridge colleges. The Guildhall complex houses the offices of the Corporation of London and various public facilities. (Greater London also has a City Hall). The great hall is believed to be on the site of an earlier Guildhall, and has large mediaeval crypts underneath. During the Roman period it was the site of an amphitheatre, the largest in Britannia. The City of London is still part of London's city centre, but apart from financial services, most of London's metropolitan functions are centred on the West End. The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • Two businessmen of Asian descent have stopped at a bar in the City of London  and are seated by the window in Cannon Street, near St Paul's Cathedral, England. They both have a similar skin tones and are equally smart in dark suits and ties. The male on the left cradles a pint of beer while other's drink is a half-pint of either lager or perhaps apple juice. They both look successful and confident about their friendship or business dealings as they share a joke or swap stories about their lives. They wear sun glasses against the late, strong sunshine but the background has gone dark because the sun has illuminated only their faces and chests. It is a picture of confidence, success and humour.
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  • Three woman in the warm sunshine in a window of Caffe Nero in central London. Seated in comfortable chairs bathed in afternoon sunshine, the 3 strangers enjoy the warmth through the window in this central London street near Covent Garden. We see the shadows of the words Panini and Pasta which Nero offer in their UK cafes. One lady checks her phone, another reads a book and the third leans against the glass, fast asleep. Gerry Ford founded Caffè Nero in 1997, now one of the leading UK coffee house operators in the world now with over 600 stores worldwide. They operate in the United Kingdom, Turkey, the Middle East, Poland and Cyprus.
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  • Listening to an mp3 device, a man reads the Sports section of his newspaper on the top deck of a London bus. Listening to an mp3 device, a man reads the Sports section of his newspaper on the top deck of a London bus. Seated by the window of this double-decker, the man has wires from his music device protruding from his ears, listening perhaps to his favourite band or live radio as his commuting journey stops and starts in inner-city traffic. The word Sport can be seen at the top of this newspaper section and we have the idea that football is the subject that he is reading about. Another passenger sits in the row in front and she too appears to be reading, or sleeping. Affordable flats are in the distance outside.
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  • Corporal Mal Faulder pushes a Martin-Baker ejection seat through an RAF Hangar. He is an Armourer (an engineer handling seats and weaponry on military jets) but here in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, his duties are wider. With other members of the team’s support staff (the Blues who outnumber the pilots the Reds by 8 to 1) he also helps clean the Hawk aircraft before air shows across the country. He pulls the seat into a blast-protected bunker for safe storage where explosive charges inside this equipment are temporarily removed. The seat is returned to service when the aircraft is through its regular maintenance schedule. British company Martin-Baker manufacturers ejection seats and membership of the its Tie Club is solely for air crew who have ejected from an aircraft in an emergency which saved their life.
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  • British ejection seat manfufacturer Martin-Baker's stand at the Farnborough Airshow. Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. Ltd. is a manufacturer of ejection seats and safety related a pioneer in the field of ejection seats. Martin-Baker is the market share leader, equipping ejection seats for 93 air forces worldwide. The Martin-Baker company is the only company to offer a fully integrated escape system which meets the latest pilot operational capability and safety standards. Martin-Baker seats have been fitted into over 80 fixed-wing and rotary types with the most recent being the JSF F-35 programme. Since the first live ejection test in 1946, over 7,280 lives have been saved using a Martin-Baker ejection seat.
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  • A man tucks in to his in-flight meal on-board an Air France Boeing 777 flight from Paris Orly to Cayenne, French Guiana. Putting more food into his mouth while watching an in-flight movie, the male passenger has an aisle seat on this airliner. We also see on another seat back, the progress of this journey across the Atlantic Ocean towards the mainland of South America, seen on the moving map system screen which reveals statistics such as altitude, airspeed, distance to destination, distance from origination and local time. Using GPS avionics, the capital Cayenne is seen as the destination as well as Caracas, Georgetown, Kingstown and San Juan in the Caribbean. On the viewer's lowered tray is a light lunch of fruit, natural yoghurt, bread roll, orange juice and empty up. This is the best of Economy class.
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  • As bright sunlight shines through the window of an airliner, a sleeping male passenger reclines in his seat on a generic transatlantic flight. Sitting in the window seat of this transatlantic flight, the man has a large tummy protruding over his seat belt as he slumbers with a hand resting on the seat arm. The sun is over the port (left) wing as it continues to fly back towards Europe from the USA.
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  • Walkers enjoy summer evening sunshine on the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park, overlooking the city of Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
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  • A wide interior landscape view of the beautiful seats, upper circle and arched roof of the Torbay Picture House. The manager stands in the balcony to show its scale. It was open in at least 1914, making it what is believed to be the oldest purpose-built cinema in Europe. In its early days it featured a 21-piece orchestra, with each member paid a guinea to perform. There are 375 seats: 271 in the stalls, 104 in the circle, plus three private boxes at the back seating an additional eight. Seat 2, Row 2 of the circle was the favourite seat of crime novelist Agatha Christie, who lived at Greenway House, near neighbouring Kingswear. The cinemas and theatres in her books are all reportedly based on the Torbay Picture House.
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  • A young woman works with a notebook in summer evening sunshine on the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park, overlooking the city of Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
    arthurs_seat-22-26-06-2019.jpg
  • A young couple gaze out towards the city of Edinburgh from the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
    arthurs_seat-20-26-06-2019.jpg
  • Walkers enjoy summer evening sunshine on the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park, overlooking the city of Edinburgh and the Firth of Fourth estuary, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
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  • In summer evening sunshine, walkers climb the last metres to the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park that overlooks the city of Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
    arthurs_seat-01-26-06-2019.jpg
  • A young couple gaze out towards the city of Edinburgh from the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
    arthurs_seat-21-26-06-2019.jpg
  • Walkers enjoy summer evening sunshine on the summit of Arthurs Seat in Holyrood Park, overlooking the city of Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthurs Seat is an extinct volcano which is considered the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m 822 ft, providing excellent panoramic views of the city and beyond.
    arthurs_seat-08-26-06-2019.jpg
  • London Underground train priority seat for disabled, elderly and expectant mothers, 26th January 2020, London.
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  • A demonstration by Resonate Testing Ltd. to illustrate that they test and contribute with the certification of fire-retardent airline seat materials, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-100-16-07-2018.jpg
  • The shoes of a rail passenger rest on the fabric seats of train travelling through south London, on 26th February 2021, in London, England. Rail and Tube passengers who put feet on seats or play music too loudly face £50 on-the-spot fines from British Transport Police.
    seat_shoes01-26-02-2021.jpg
  • An airline flight-engineer occupies his own seat in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 - before the era arrived when technology made his role as a third flight crew member redundant. With a bowl of fresh fruit beside his seat, the male member of the flight-deck crew watches instruments and readings in front of the unseen pilots at the front. Wearing the three stripes designating his rank and seniority within his unspecified airline, the specialist's skills are in engineering systems that maintain efficient flight. When introduced, the Boeing 747-400 model was equipped with a two-crew glass cockpit, which dispensed with the need for a flight engineer - many of whom lost their jobs or retrained as pilots themselves.
    flight_engineer01-07-08-2000_1.jpg
  • A demonstration by Resonate Testing Ltd. to illustrate that they test and contribute with the certification of fire-retardent airline seat materials, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-102-16-07-2018.jpg
  • A demonstration by Resonate Testing Ltd. to illustrate that they test and contribute with the certification of fire-retardent airline seat materials, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-101-16-07-2018.jpg
  • A demonstration by Resonate Testing Ltd. to illustrate that they test and contribute with the certification of fire-retardent airline seat materials, at the Farnborough Airshow, on 16th July 2018, in Farnborough, England.
    farnborough_airshow-96-16-07-2018.jpg
  • Empty seats to be filled by upcoming astronauts at a PR event by Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic, one of the leading potential space tourism groups, is planning to begin passenger service aboard the VSS Enterprise, a Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo type spacecraft. The initial seat price is $200,000, with a required down-payment of $20,000. To date, 529 people have signed up. Headed by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, Virgin Galactic hopes to be the first private space tourism company to regularly send civilians into space. A citizen astronaut will only require three days of training before spaceflight.
    virgin_galactic16-11-07-2012_1_1.jpg
  • A brown paper bag containing the remnants of fast food from Burger King discarded on a seat in a London bus, on 30th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • A brown paper bag containing the remnants of fast food from Burger King discarded on a seat in a London bus, on 30th April 2019, in London, England.
    bus_food-01-30-04-2019.jpg
  • Pilgrimes and monks arrive at Tashilunpo Monastery, the seat of the Panchen Lama, as appointed by the Dalai Lama to pay homage and resspect to their annointed God, Shigatze city, Tibet.
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  • The Plenary Chamber in the centre of the old Reichstag building in central Berlin, Germany. The Bundestag is a legislative body in Germany. The Reichstag is the seat of the political centre of Germany. The parliament holds its meetings at the plenary chamber underneath the amazing dome of glass and steel. The ramps which lead you elliptical to the top of the dome make a great visual impact. More than 800 tons weighs the cupola of the Reichstag. The building outlay amounts to a considerable sum of 600 million Deutsche Marks. The directive architect was Sir Norman Foster.
    reichstag_cupola03-04-04-2013.jpg
  • Peoples Vote supporter as Jacob Rees Mogg does some back seat driving as Anti Brexit pro Europe demonstrators protest in Westminster opposite Parliament as MPs debate and vote on amendments to the withdrawal agreement plans on 14th February 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Peoples Vote supporter as Jacob Rees Mogg does some back seat driving as Anti Brexit pro Europe demonstrators protest in Westminster opposite Parliament as MPs debate and vote on amendments to the withdrawal agreement plans on 14th February 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20190214_brexit protest rees mogg_00...jpg
  • Seen from the window seat of a train carriage that is travelling towards Victoria station, is a landscape of new housing and apartments at the large Battersea Power Station construction site by Sir Robert Macalpine and Keltbray, in London, England, on 4th December 2019.
    train_journey-10-04-12-2019.jpg
  • A Metro newspaper on a London underground tube train seat with the Olympic ambassador and rioter story on page 1. This free paper given to tube and rail commuters features the story of an Olympic ambassador, a teenage girl chosen to represent the 2012 Olympiad but who was found to have looted a small business herself. Over a four-day period in August 2011, Britain was held in the grip of social and criminal unrest when the (mostly) young went on the rampage, looting and stealing from shops and stores. In total 6 people died but many of hundreds of small businesses was ransacked for their stock. Desirable clothing accessories from sports shops as well as food and alcohol were rifled from convenience stores. Approximately 3,000 arrests were made across cities and towns across the Uk – mostly in London.
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  • Red seating outside a burger bar under railway arches in the south London borough of Lambeth. The lunch business is now quiet after a period of good business when local workers come to eat and relax during the working day - including staff from a nearby police department. The red seats are the only colourful aspect of this urban landscape.
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  • Red seating outside a burger bar under railway arches in the south London borough of Lambeth. The lunch business is now quiet after a period of good business when local workers come to eat and relax during the working day - including staff from a nearby police department. The red seats are the only colourful aspect of this urban landscape.
    lambeth_landscape06-03-06-2015.jpg
  • While working on his book, "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009), the writer Alain de Botton's sits in an airline seat at the British Airways' corporate headquarters at Waterside at Harmondsworth near Heathrow Airport.
    heathrow_airport1642-20-08-2009_1.jpg
  • The day after the government introduced a third Coronavirus pandemic national lockdown, effectively a Tier 5 restriction, a copy of the Metro newspaper lies on a train cariage seat as the capital experiences a grim post-Christmas and millions of Britons are told to stay at home, on 5th January 2021, in London, England.
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  • Passengers stretched out on an airport terminal seat at Gatwick, London. Sleeping while waiting for their flight, the two men rest head to head on the bench in the south Terminal. According to the World Bank's data on passenger numbers carried by country, the UK carried 125,068,988 in the years 2010-14 compared the US - 762m
    airport_passengers01-09-07-2015_1.jpg
  • Priority seats on an Ecolink bus, one of Nottingham’s zero emissions buses, in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The electric buses are part of the City Council’s campaign to reduce noise and air pollution in the city centre, while still providing accessible public transport.
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  • A discarded copy of a Metro newspaper, reporting on Prime Minister Boris Johnsons alleged affair with Jennifer Acruri and the date when Covid pandemic lockdown restrictions are further relaxed, lies on the seats of a London bus, on 29th March 2021, in London, England.
    newspaper_headline01-29-03-2021.jpg
  • Red cube seating area in a modern office building, London, UK.
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  • Peoples Vote supporter as Jacob Rees Mogg does some back seat driving as Anti Brexit pro Europe demonstrators protest in Westminster opposite Parliament as MPs debate and vote on amendments to the withdrawal agreement plans on 14th February 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20190214_brexit protest rees mogg_00...jpg
  • Peoples Vote supporter as Jacob Rees Mogg does some back seat driving as Anti Brexit pro Europe demonstrators protest in Westminster opposite Parliament as MPs debate and vote on amendments to the withdrawal agreement plans on 14th February 2019 in London, England, United Kingdom.
    20190214_brexit protest rees mogg_01...jpg
  • The Plenary Chamber in the centre of the old Reichstag building in central Berlin, Germany. The Bundestag is a legislative body in Germany. The new Reichstag building was officially opened on 19 April 1999. At least 598 Members of the Bundestag are elected and meet here.  The Reichstag is the seat of the political centre of Germany. The parliament holds its meetings at the plenary chamber underneath the amazing dome of glass and steel. The ramps which lead you elliptical to the top of the dome make a great visual impact. More than 800 tons weighs the cupola of the Reichstag. The building outlay amounts to a considerable sum of 600 million Deutsche Marks. The directive architect was Sir Norman Foster.
    reichstag_plenary_chamber12-04-04-20...jpg
  • The Plenary Chamber in the centre of the old Reichstag building in central Berlin, Germany. The Bundestag is a legislative body in Germany. The new Reichstag building was officially opened on 19 April 1999. At least 598 Members of the Bundestag are elected and meet here.  The Reichstag is the seat of the political centre of Germany. The parliament holds its meetings at the plenary chamber underneath the amazing dome of glass and steel. The ramps which lead you elliptical to the top of the dome make a great visual impact. More than 800 tons weighs the cupola of the Reichstag. The building outlay amounts to a considerable sum of 600 million Deutsche Marks. The directive architect was Sir Norman Foster.
    reichstag_plenary_chamber11-04-04-20...jpg
  • The Plenary Chamber in the centre of the old Reichstag building in central Berlin, Germany. The Bundestag is a legislative body in Germany. The new Reichstag building was officially opened on 19 April 1999. At least 598 Members of the Bundestag are elected and meet here.  The Reichstag is the seat of the political centre of Germany. The parliament holds its meetings at the plenary chamber underneath the amazing dome of glass and steel. The ramps which lead you elliptical to the top of the dome make a great visual impact. More than 800 tons weighs the cupola of the Reichstag. The building outlay amounts to a considerable sum of 600 million Deutsche Marks. The directive architect was Sir Norman Foster.
    reichstag_plenary_chamber08-04-04-20...jpg
  • The Plenary Chamber in the centre of the old Reichstag building in central Berlin, Germany. The Bundestag is a legislative body in Germany. The new Reichstag building was officially opened on 19 April 1999. At least 598 Members of the Bundestag are elected and meet here.  The Reichstag is the seat of the political centre of Germany. The parliament holds its meetings at the plenary chamber underneath the amazing dome of glass and steel. The ramps which lead you elliptical to the top of the dome make a great visual impact. More than 800 tons weighs the cupola of the Reichstag. The building outlay amounts to a considerable sum of 600 million Deutsche Marks. The directive architect was Sir Norman Foster.
    reichstag_plenary_chamber06-04-04-20...jpg
  • The Plenary Chamber in the centre of the old Reichstag building in central Berlin, Germany. The Bundestag is a legislative body in Germany. The new Reichstag building was officially opened on 19 April 1999. At least 598 Members of the Bundestag are elected and meet here.  The Reichstag is the seat of the political centre of Germany. The parliament holds its meetings at the plenary chamber underneath the amazing dome of glass and steel. The ramps which lead you elliptical to the top of the dome make a great visual impact. More than 800 tons weighs the cupola of the Reichstag. The building outlay amounts to a considerable sum of 600 million Deutsche Marks. The directive architect was Sir Norman Foster.
    reichstag_plenary_chamber01-04-04-20...jpg
  • A brown paper bag from Monopoly is still on a seat of a London bus after its user has left, on 15th April 2019, in London, England.
    bus_food-01-15-04-2019.jpg
  • A closed cafe that once offered all day breakfast with empty seating in central London, a victim of the UK recession. With peeling paint and unused street furniture, se see that the corner business has closed, its windows covered in white emulsion paint to render it opaque. The shop's former menu is still displayed on this window: "Beverages and filled sandwiches & baguettes" once sold to regular customers.
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  • Copies of the free daily tabloid Metro newspaper have been carefully placed on upper deck seating on a London bus. headlines relating to the British government's latest economic budget have all been placed facing upwards on the empty seats during a journey across south London. The red rail is for the stop button, pressed by passengers who wish to disembark the bus. Metro was launched in 1999 as a free, colour newspaper for morning commuters. Commuters in 16 of Britain's major cities can pick up a free copy of the Metro as they travel to work in the morning. Every weekday morning some 1,134,121 copies are distributed across the UK making Metro the world's largest free newspaper and the fourth biggest newspaper in the UK.
    metro_bus02-16-04-2012.jpg
  • A transport Museum sign welcomes visitors back and empty seating awaits bar and restaurant customers on a wet and rainy day in Covent Garden during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic and when the capital is designated by the government as a Tier 2 restriction, on 21st October 2020, in London, England.
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  • As Prime Minister Boris Johnson returns to Downing Street after being admitted to hospital suffering from Coronavirus, and confirming that the pandemic lockdown in the UK will continue, telling the country we are now beginning to turn the tide on the disease. A further 360 people died with the virus in hospitals today, taking the total number of deaths to 21,092, and the seats of a local cafe remain vacant inside the closed business, part of the pandemic lockdown in Herne Hill in south London, on 27th April 2020, in London, England.
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  • Seats on a London bus is blocked off to prevent passengers sitting within proximity of others on the day that UK Prime Minster, Boris Johnson announced in parliament of a major easing of Coronavirus pandemic restrictions on July 4th next week, including the re-opening of pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers in England, on 23rd June 2020, in London, England. The three month two metre social distance will be also reduced to one metre plus but in the last 24hrs, a further 171 have died from Covid, bringing the UK total to 42,927.
    coronavirus_bus-01-23-06-2020.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. Tape has been stretched across seating on a London bus to stop their use, while being passengers are being asked to wear face coverings and to stay apart which in line with government requirements for all users of public trransport starting next Monday 15th June, on 11th June 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_bus-03-11-06-2020.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, vacant seating and an empty exterior of a closed McDonalds restaurant and street beyond in Brixton, on 1st April 2020, in London, England.
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  • A retro blue and white leather bench seat a Stadium Diner just off the A1 on the 21st April 2010 in Colsterworth in the United Kingdom.
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  • Plastic seating at a food trailer near Gordale Scar on 12th April 2017, in Malham, the Yorkshire Dales, England.
    yorkshire-17-12-04-2017.jpg
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