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  • Wearing a company wastecoat and blue rubber gloves, the uniform of a Holiday Inn employee, a man of Black ethnicity bends forward to wipe the glass revolving doors at the entrance of this hotel in Paris. Nearby is the man's trolley containing janitorial cleaning products such as a mop and bucket, towels, cloth rolls, atomiser sprays, detergents and tissues needed to maintain the high standards of this motel chain. Coincidentally, a customer is also bending down to re-arrange something in her baggage and leaning at the same angle as the cleaner.
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  • An elderly gentleman wearing a traditional bowler hat and carrying a folded newspaper descends the steps from the bright daylight to the dark of the London Underground, before making his way home from Royal Exchange at Bank Triangle by tube. He is one of the last examples of a bygone age, when many in London's financial district wore such work clothes - a way of typifying a breed of Englishness and class system, known all over, and still expected, around the world. Sadly, gents like this are very rare after modern fashions, lower standards and changed attitudes in the workplace meant that younger men no longer wanted to wear a stuffy outfit to work. The days of the bowler are fast disappearing. Behind him are the tall and solid Corinthian pillars of the 3rd Royal Exchange built in 1842 by Sir William Tite.
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  • An elderly gentleman wearing a traditional bowler hat and carrying an umbrella, pauses to read the headlines in the London Evening Standard newspaper, before making his way home from Bank Triangle, outside the Bank of England. He is one of the last examples of a bygone age, when many in London's financial district wore such work clothes - a way of typifying a cretain breed of Englishness and class system, known all over, and still expected, around the world. Sadly, gents like this are very rare after modern fashions, lower standards and changed attitudes in the workplace meant that younger men no longer wanted to wear a stuffy outfit to work. The days of the bowler are fast disappearing.
    RB_087-18-04-1993.jpg
  • The crest of the Chartered Insurance Institute on Aldermanbury Street in the City of London. The CII is the world's leading professional organisation for insurance and financial services in the City of London, the capital's financial district - also known as the Square Mile. The institute has 102,000 members are committed to maintaining the highest standards of technical competence and ethical conduct. Below the crest that includes the representation of corn or wheat and ships' anchors are the Latin moto Consilium Scientia which translates as 'counsel and knowledge'.
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  • A detail of a Welsh Guard's red tunic uniform including a medal for service in Northern Ireland. Polished button and a faultlessly clean surface proves the high standards expected by this famous British army regiment. The Welsh Guards (Gwarchodlu Cymreig) part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. The Welsh Guards came into existence on 26 February 1915 by Royal Warrant of His Majesty King George V in order to include Wales in the national component to the Foot Guards.
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  • 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
  • A rear view of an industry Traffic Marshall who walks through a covered pavement where a large construction project is underway on Victoria Street in Victoria, Westminster, on 19th February 2021, in London, England.
    construction_man01-18-02-2021.jpg
  • As England finishes its second Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and London enters a Tier 2 restriction, cleaning staff at 'Galerie Richard Orlinski' in Bond Street, wipe window surfaces and floors before the first customers return to the West End to start their Christmas shopping, on 2nd December 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shopping11-02-12-2020.jpg
  • Litter gathers beneath a bench in the plaza of a quiet Leadenhall where lunchtime workers usually gather and which is habitualy swept and cleaned by contractors, during the third lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic, in the City of London, the capitals financial district, aka The Square Mile, on 2nd February 2021, in London, England.
    coronavirus_city15-02-02-2021.jpg
  • Chalk writing warns letter posters of a freshly-painted Royal Mail postal box in Dulwich Village, on 7th January 2019, in Southwark, London, UK.
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  • An employee stops to pick up a dropped Union Jack flag from the pavement outside a retailers Bond Street address, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
    union_jack_men-06-05-06-2019.jpg
  • A City businessman bends down to tie a shoelace outside the Guildhalls Art Gallery on 13th February 2017, in the City of London, United Kingdom. The Guildhalls Art gallery was established in 1886 as a Collection of Art Treasures worthy of the capital city, and includes works dating from 1670 to the present, including 17th-century portraits, Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces and a range of paintings documenting Londons dramatic history.
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  • A smartly-dressed gentleman carefully descends steps beneath the Fourth Plinth, in Trafalgar Square, Westminster, on 9th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • City dwellers pass beneath advice about street etiquette on a construction hoarding in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 24th January 2019, in London, England.
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  • City dwellers pass beneath advice about street etiquette on a construction hoarding in the City of London, the capitals financial district, on 24th January 2019, in London, England.
    street_etiquette-10-24-01-2019.jpg
  • A wide view of the graveyard in the cemetery of Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling, Scotland. It is one of the town's most historically important buildings. It was rebuilt in the 1400s after Stirling suffered a catastrophic fire in 1405, and is the only surviving church in the United Kingdom apart from Westminster Abbey, to have held a coronation. On 29 July 1567 the infant son of Mary, Queen of Scots, was crowned James VI of Scotland here. Musket shot marks from Cromwell's troops during the War of the Three Kingdoms are clearly visible on the tower and apse. Another important historical religious site in the area is Cambuskenneth Abbey.
    stirling_cemetery03-30-07-2010-1_1_1.jpg
  • British schoolchildren on a daytrip to the capital enjoy a chance encounter with guardsmen at Horseguards on London's Whitehall. Gathering around the two troops, they talk to the caucasian man rather than the smaller man of afro-caribbean descent, both wearing the scarlet uniform tunics of the British Household Cavalry. This regiment is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: Life Guards (British Army) and the Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660.
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  • As others try to squeeze through a space on the narrow pavement, a hotel employee cleans the matt in front of the Hotel do Norte, on 20th July, in Porto, Portugal. Scrubbing the step and the matt which contain the name of this establishment, the cleaner takes up most of the space on the sidewalk.
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  • A Polish shop keeper sweeps the pavement outside his business,<br />
on 23rd September 2019, in Krakow, Malopolska, Poland.
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  • Dapper gentleman walks past American Gothic poster, outside the Royal Academy on Piccadilly, on 30th March 2017, in London, England.
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  • A utopian view of a London street sweeper brushing the street in front of a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    olympic_stratford21-15-03-2012.jpg
  • A utopian view of a London street sweeper brushing the street in front of a hoarding showing aspiration and consumerism of nearby Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield hosted its first day to thousands of shoppers eager to see Europe's largest urban shopping centre. The £1.45bn complex houses more than 300 shops, 70 restaurants, a 14-screen cinema, three hotels, a bowling alley and the UK's largest casino. It will provide the main access to the Olympic park for the 2012 Games and a central 'street' will give 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space and so far 95% of the centre has been let. It is claimed that up to 8,500 permanent jobs will be created by the retail sector.
    olympic_stratford17-15-03-2012.jpg
  • The private parts of naked women models, photographed in black and white by German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton, have been censored with post-it notes in the window of a picture framers in Bermondsey, on 15th August 2019, in London, England.
    newton_censorhip-01-15-08-2019.jpg
  • The private parts of naked women models, photographed in black and white by German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton, have been censored with post-it notes in the window of a picture framers in Bermondsey, on 15th August 2019, in London, England.
    newton_censorhip-04-15-08-2019.jpg
  • As families queue in the grounds of the Naval College, Greenwich, children play beneath a giant inflatable figure of a Royal Navy sailor. During a public open-day in Greenwich, London when the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day04-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Members of Royal Marines Commandos demonstrate various weaponry to small children and young adults  during a public open-day in Greenwich, London during which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day17-11-05-2013.jpg
  • As families queue in the grounds of the Naval College, Greenwich, children play beneath a giant inflatable figure of a Royal Navy sailor. During a public open-day in Greenwich, London when the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day10-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Members of Royal Marines Commandos demonstrate various weaponry to small children and young adults  during a public open-day in Greenwich, London during which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day16-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Members of Royal Marines Commandos demonstrate various weaponry to a teenage boy and smaller children during a public open-day in Greenwich, London during which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day01-11-05-2013.jpg
  • Members of Royal Marines Commandos demonstrate various weaponry to small children and young adults  during a public open-day in Greenwich, London during which the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
    navy_open_day02-11-05-2013.jpg
  • The wash from a passing Norfolk Broads pleasure cruiser disturbs the peace for man enjoying the tranquility while fishing for perch on the still waters of the river Chet, on 13th August 2020, in Loddon, Norfolk, England.
    loddon07-13-08-2020.jpg
  • A lady employee of Delacre Biscuits sorts through sub-standard product from rows of steadily moving, freshly-produced biscuits on the conveyor belt at the company factory at Lambermont, near Liege, southern Belgium. Seated opposite a colleague also dressed in white overall and hair net, both women concentrate on the job, removing the snacks that fail quality control for whatever reason means the biscuit is unfit for sale. The biscuits are from the Moments range created by McVitie’s, the British company owned by United Biscuits. Multitudes of these snacks are manufactured before export across Europe. Delacre Biscuits is a subsidiary of United Biscuits having been making biscuits since Brussels pharmacist Charles Delacre decided to sell chocolate in 1870, which was then regarded as a medicinal tonic.
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  • Security employed by contractor OCS searches a passenger at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009).
    heathrow_airport1467-18-08-2009_1.jpg
  • Security employed by contractor OCS searches a passenger at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. Teams of 5-8 perform a rotational order of tasks, changing every 20 minutes: A loader (asking travellers to take off clothing, shoes etc); archway detectors; X-ray operator; liquid tester and bag searcher. The X-ray operator can earn a £50 bonus for a suspect item randomly inserted by undercover officials and known as an Airlock Find. Also, a Tip is a random image flashed on the screen that shows a suspect item they have to spot. A typical day of searched passengers is 25,000 passengers in T5. From writer Alain de Botton's book project "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary" (2009). .
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  • Photographs of properties are on view in the window of Hampton's International in Clapham High Street, south London. This is an affluent area of the capital, home to the well healed of the middle-classes and the values of these homes reflect their status in Clapham as a very expensive part in which to invest. Some are from the Edwardian era and others Victorian and even Georgian with freehold leases from £1.5 to £4 million at 2012 prices, in the middle of a recession.
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  • Photographs of properties are on view in the window of Hampton's International in Clapham High Street, south London. This is an affluent area of the capital, home to the well healed of the middle-classes and the values of these homes reflect their status in Clapham as a very expensive part in which to invest. Some are from the Edwardian era and others Victorian and even Georgian with freehold leases from £1.5 to £4 million at 2012 prices, in the middle of a recession.
    hamptons_properties03-25-02-2012_1.jpg
  • With smartphone in hand, a woman walks beneath a poster for the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district - and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, a bygone gentlemanly tradition. when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat.
    gentlemen_poster03-14-03-2013_1.jpg
  • Two men with the Hippodrome Casino polish a brass sill in Leicester Square, on 13th August 2018, in London, England. The Hippodrome Casino has well & truly established itself as a cornerstone of West End life. The biggest & busiest casino in the UK, they are also London’s most popular entertainment venue and have welcomed over 7 million visitors since opening in 2012.
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  • A female Italian cyclist pedals along a graffiti-lined street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. With the words 'I Love Weed' that refers to the popularity and merits of cannabis, the graffiti of other tags and assorted writings can be seen stretching into the distance where a family have passed-by and are continuing their journey towards their home to the east of the city.
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  • An Italian couple walk along a side street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. Graffiti lines the far wall and the man partner looks at the writing and scrawls sprayed by markers and aerosol as he seemingly pulls his lady friend or wife along the road.
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  • A local woman passes a graffiti-daubed street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. The smartly-dresses young lady walks by the ramshackle shop piled with souvenirs and trinkets, a rather untidy and unsafe-looking electricity junction box and a shop called The Gold Corner selling 18Kt gold. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
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  • A dog owner picks up his pets mess on the lawns opposite smart seaside housing, on 14th July 2017, at Filey, North Yorkshire, England.
    filey_town-03-14-07-2017.jpg
  • Passers-by look down on a young campaigner resting with his head on an Oxford Circus kerb on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
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  • Passers-by look down on a young campaigner resting with his head on an Oxford Circus kerb on day 4 of protests by climate change environmental activists with pressure group Extinction Rebellion, on18th April 2019, in London, England.
    extinction_rebellion-68-18-04-2019.jpg
  • An aerial view of drying washing amidst rubble and dusty rooftops of houses 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.
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  • A resident of Bowater House on the Golden Lane Estate with a banner on the balcony protesting about the 10-storey luxury apartment development called The Denizen, a controversial building by Taylor Wimpey that locals say will dominate their view and block their daylight, on 30th October 2017, in London, England. Residents on the Estate have erected banners by artists Jeremy Deller and Elizabeth Price to picket the developers. Despite this, Wimpey say, We are one of the UKs largest residential developers. As a responsible developer we are committed to working with local people and communities.
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  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of Feel Hairdressers Soho, is helped by friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
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  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of Feel Hairdressers Soho, is helped by friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-22-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of Feel Hairdressers Soho, is helped by friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-19-02-07-2020.jpg
  • With a further 89 UK covid victims in the last 24hrs, bringing the total victims to 43,995 during the Coronavirus pandemic, pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be able to reopen on 4th July, providing they adhere to COVID Secure guidelines. Sandra, owner of Feel Hairdressers Soho, is helped by friend, Brigitte, to re-open the business by cleaning the front windows, on Berwick Street in Soho, on 2nd July 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_WestEnd-16-02-07-2020.jpg
  • As England finishes its second Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and London enters a Tier 2 restriction, cleaning staff at 'Galerie Richard Orlinski' in Bond Street, hoovers the carpet before the first customers return to the West End to start their Christmas shopping, on 2nd December 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shopping20-02-12-2020.jpg
  • As England finishes its second Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and London enters a Tier 2 restriction, cleaning staff at 'Galerie Richard Orlinski' in Bond Street, wipe window surfaces and floors before the first customers return to the West End to start their Christmas shopping, on 2nd December 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shopping18-02-12-2020.jpg
  • As England finishes its second Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and London enters a Tier 2 restriction, cleaning staff at 'Galerie Richard Orlinski' in Bond Street, wipe window surfaces and floors before the first customers return to the West End to start their Christmas shopping, on 2nd December 2020, in London, England.
    coronavirus_shopping15-02-12-2020.jpg
  • Street cleaner from contractor Veolia winds up hose after hosing down waste bin in Oxford Street, central London. <br />
Coiling up the lengths of piping, the employee tucks the end into the machinery. Environmental solutions contractor Veolia provides a comprehensive range of waste, water and energy management services designed to build the circular economy and preserve scarce raw materials.
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  • Members of the RAF Royal Air Force and British Army stand to attention while rehearsing the ceremonial event to mark the Queens 90th birthday the oldest for any British monarch at St Pauls Cathedral, on 9th June 2016, in London, United Kingdom. In summer sunshine they practice marching into position and ensuring theyre precisely in the correct spacing in preparation for the monarchs celebration here on 10th June, the day after.
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  • Members of the RAF Royal Air Force and British Army stand to attention while rehearsing the ceremonial event to mark the Queens 90th birthday the oldest for any British monarch at St Pauls Cathedral, on 9th June 2016, in London, United Kingdom. In summer sunshine they practice marching into position and ensuring theyre precisely in the correct spacing in preparation for the monarchs celebration here on 10th June, the day after.
    city_people-05-09-06-2016.jpg
  • Two women walk past the Charles Tyrwhitt menswear outfitters in Eldon Street in the City of London, the capital's heart of its financial district and a good location for suits and businesswear. A pair of Englishmen raise their bowler hats in a gesture from a previous era, when hats said much of your social standing, a summary of your position in the class system. In the 21st century though, the hat is largely an item of clothing to wear only for extreme cold or heat. A leggy girl strides past the shop frontage, seemingly curious of this bygone gentlemanly tradition.
    city_menswear04-12-03-2013_1.jpg
  • A woman applies make-up beneath the architecture of the Swiss re Building, aka the Gherkin, in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, a time when office workers are still largely still working from home, on 16th September 2020, in London, England.
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  • A woman applies make-up beneath the architecture of the Swiss re Building, aka the Gherkin, in the City of London during the Coronavirus pandemic, a time when office workers are still largely still working from home, on 16th September 2020, in London, England.
    city_make-up02-16-09-2020.jpg
  • A driver stands on the rear wheel of his vehicle and reaches to polish its roof, on 23rd September 2016, in a central London street, England. Stretching across the top of the people carrier, the driver has removed his jacket and cleans its surface.
    car_cleaner-01-23-09-2016.jpg
  • A locked bike in a rack next to dog faeces outside an apartment building in Wedding, a north-western district of Berlin. The pink bicycle is locked to the red rack against a pink tiled wall, standing on cobbles in a more downmarket area, home to non-germans and immigrants.
    berlin_bike02-06-04-2013_1.jpg
  • Two smartly-dressed young men wearing matching pink ties stand watching a passing protest march on Piccadilly, on 4th February 2017 in London, United Kingdom.
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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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  • In the week of US President Donald Trumps state visit to the UK, employees check on which way up the British Union Jack flag should hang outside the American clothing retailers Bond Street address, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
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  • In the week of US President Donald Trumps state visit to the UK, employees check on which way up the British Union Jack flag should hang outside the American clothing retailers Bond Street address, on 5th June 2019, in London, England.
    union_jack_men-02-05-06-2019.jpg
  • Surgeons performs open heart surgery during a procedure at the private Health Care International hospital in 1994, Glasgow, Scotland. Forceps and scissors and other various implements necessary for efficient medical practice as the masked and gowned doctors, consultants and assisting nurses concentrate on the work in hand, the saving of a human life.
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  • An entire rank of Grenadier Guardsmen musicians are playing clarinets as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations, one event in a series to mark her 50th year on the throne. The soldiers have formed a marching band guard that is making its way along the Mall, that broad avenue from Buckingham Palace. Focus is on one guardsman whose bearskin is slightly higher than his of his comrades. Their music sheets are pinned on specially adapted stands on the ends on their instruments making the job of marching in absolutely straight, regimented lines the more easier. The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. The Grenadier Guards celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2006.
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  • A young man washes the family Ford Anglia car on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties. Bending down to wring a leather dry into a bucket the young man cleans his father's beloved Anglia in the street outside the family house which interestingly, is otherwise empty of other cars. This is the new age of car ownership when newfound wealth meant families could afford to buy a vehicle and travel elsewhere after the war years of 1950s austerity. The Ford Anglia is a British car designed and manufactured by Ford in the United Kingdom. The Ford Anglia name was applied to four models of car between 1939 and 1967. 1,594,486 Anglias were produced. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about 1961.
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  • With few visitors to see, a young boy pees into the water surrounding a model town at the Splendid China model village, the 30 hectares large tourist attraction in the city of Shenzen, China. The kid aims into the water with his mother's help. In the background we see some of the 50,000 ceramic figures and scenes from a period in Chinese history and further away, modern skyscrapers in the metropolis contrasting with ancient, traditional village life. Splendid China is an attraction at the Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen that has scaled down replicas of China's historical buildings, wonderful scenes and folk customs. The scale models are of a 1:15 with 100 miniaturized landmarks such as The Terracotta Warriors; Great Wall; Forbidden City; Old Summer Palace etc. all laid out according to their geographic locations.
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  • Members of the British Royal Marines band march under a giant backdrop of Lord Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory during the Royal Tournament. Ranks of the musical soldiers appear from between large doors that are already closing behind their last rows. Above them is the huge mural depicting the famous sea battles at which Nelson and his fleet of warship navy were victorious such as Gibraltar; Quiberon; Saintes and Cape St. Vincent. The Royal Tournament was the World's largest military tattoo and pageant, held by the British Armed Forces annually between 1880 and 1999. The venue was originally the Royal Agricultural Hall and latterly the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. In its later years it also acted as a fundraising event for leading forces charities, such as The Royal British Legion.
    royal_tournament01-16-09-1992.jpg
  • A row or Royal Artillery horsemen during the annual Trooping of the Colour parade in the Mall. With swords drawn, the row of fine horse mounted soldiers parade along the Mall towards the parade ground at Horseguards. The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA), is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments. The introduction of artillery into the English Army came as early as the Battle of Crécy in 1346
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  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their aircraft before a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • Joining with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team on the far left, are the smoke trails of forty leading European display aircraft: Spanish Patrulla Aguila; Italian Frecce Tricolori; French Breitling Jet Team and the Swiss Patrouille Suisse. All flew together in the clear, blue alpine skies on a spectacular fly-past at the Payerne Air 04 show, Switzerland. The two-day festival at the Swiss airfield is home of the Swiss Air Force who host the cream of international aerobatic display flying every September to 275,000 spectators over a weekend. European display teams and air forces gathered to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Swiss military aviation. Flying on the far left here, the Red Arrows have performed over 4,000 shows in 52 countries since 1965.
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  • Seen from another aircraft, the Diamond Nine formation of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team is seen over freshly-ploughed English fields and hedgerows (the result of the old agricultural ‘enclosure’ system of land division) the nine aircraft fly in a tight formation approximately 8 feet (2.5m) apart from each other. This is an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. In front of a local crowd at the airfield they practice a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. Their objective is to appear perfectly spaced from a ground perspective are seen below. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • Four RAF fighter pilots of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team stand on their home airfield at RAF Scampton after another hard day of winter training sorties (flights). The four swap banter with others before a post-flight debrief. Holding their helmets and wearing heavy boots, anti-g-pants and life vests these men form an elite squadron with the RAF but have accumulated over 1,500 flying hours in fast jets with experience in theatres of war. After three years in the Red Arrows they return to frontline and instructing duties. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries. During a forthcoming calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues they are an important recruiting tool for future personnel – of pilots and ground-based trades.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dave Slow is a pilot with the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team and on a hot summer’s day at the RIAT Air Tattoo at Fairford, he meets young RAF Cadet admirers. Slow signs autographs for two girls and a young man who look at this heroic aviator with a mixture of envy and awe. The girls hold Union Jack flags with team information literature and their future RAF careers may take them on to the same path or any number of other jobs within the armed services. The Red Arrows serve as a recruiting tool for young people throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • Seated on a cradle in an RAF hangar is a Rolls-Royce/Turbomeca Adour Mk 151 jet engine belonging to the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team at RAF Scampton. Inside the hangar that housed the Dambusters 617 Squadron are Hawk aircraft elsewhere. This engine powers the Red Arrows Hawks throughout their calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds. The Adour is the result of an Anglo-French project of the early 1970s which has proved exceptionally reliable, economical for fuel and simple and cheap to maintain.
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  • Chief of the Air Staff Sir Jock Stirrup pays visit to Red Arrows, Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Walking away from the red Hawk jet aircraft in which he has been flown in the rear seat, the VIP smiles after the exhilarating training flight. Carrying his flight helmet and wearing the full survival suit, he is here to see for himself what value for money the Red Arrows give to the UK. Their purpose is not simply to entertain summer seaside crowds but also as an RAF recruiting tool and for UK defence export advertising. Air Chief Marshal Sir Graham Eric Stirrup GCB, AFC, FRAeS, FCMI, RAF (born 4 December 1949), usually referred to as Sir Jock Stirrup, was a fast jet pilot, and is now a senior Royal Air Force commander. He was the Chief of the Air Staff  (CAS) from 2003 to 2006 and Chief of the Defence Staff.
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  • Two RAF fighter pilots listen to a pre-flight-briefing by the leader of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team whose elite ranks these two men want to join. The candidates are with others and are in Cyprus during the team’s training programme to be tested though only three new members are selected each year. They will have accumulated over 1,500 flying hours in fast jets with experience in theatres of war. If successful, they will spend three years in the Red Arrows then return to frontline and instructing duties. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries. During a forthcoming calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues they are an important recruiting tool for future personnel – of pilots and ground-based trades.
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  • A group portrait is taken by local media of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. With the photographer on some high steps, accompanied by the team’s PR manager, the nine pilots stand in their famous stance with their leader, Squadron Leader Spike Jepson in the very centre and a Hawk jet aircraft in the background. To the right are members of the Blues, the squadron’s ground support crew who out number the pilots (the Reds) by 8 to 1. The team are at RAF Kemble during one event during a busy calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds.
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  • Corporal Karen McNally is a flight planning administrator in the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Reaching up across the information board, this RAF lady is responsible for maintaining this vital part of the team's logistical plans that are outlined on this busy calendar of their movements and appearances at a seasonal series of air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where aerobatics aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of massed crowds. Corporal McNally is a part of the team called the Blues, the team's ground support personnel that outnumber the pilots (the Reds) by 8 to 1.
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  • Spare wheels belonging to Hawk aircraft of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team are stored in the team’s hangar at RAF Scampton. On a shelf are the front and rear tyres (tires) and wheel of the Hawk jet aircraft that perform across the UK in the summer months. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries and are an important part of Britain's summer events where the aircraft perform their manoeuvres in front of crowds. Their spares collection is therefore a vital element to the team’s presence at air shows and fly-pasts. This version of the BAE Systems Hawk is primitive, without computers or fly-by-wire technology. Nevertheless, the team's aircraft are in some cases over 20 years old and their air-frames require constant attention with increasingly frequent major overhauls due.
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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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  • A young girl sits on her pony, waiting for the beginning of her race at a local gymkhana, on 17th September 1999, in Cheltenham, England. Wearing a smart herringbone patterned jacket, regulation jodhpurs and holding a crop to encourage the horse to perform a series of trick and races, she sits calmly awaiting the next event. The word gymkhana is an Indian Raj term that referred to a place where sporting events took place to test the skill of the competitors. In the UK and east coast of the US, the term gymkhana now almost always refers to an equestrian event for riders on horses, often with the emphasis on childrens participation such as those organised here by the Pony Club. Gymkhana classes include timed speed events such as barrel racing, keyhole, keg race also known as down and back, flag race, and pole bending.
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  • British army Parachute Regiment recruits are suffering from fatigue on a rigorous forced march conducted as a squad, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a Bergen (backpack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. The lads are slowly buckling under the weight of backpack Bergens and weapons carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • A boy soldier is about to collapse on the ground suffering fatigue and dehydration on the rigorous long march conducted as a squad, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a Bergen (backpack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. The lad is buckling under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • A boy soldier has collapsed on the ground suffering from fatigue and dehydration on a rigorous march conducted as a squad of soldier recruits, over undulating terrain with each candidate carrying a bergen (back pack) weighing 35 pounds (plus water) and a weapon. Two senior trainers haul the buy up who fell under the weight of his backpack and weapon carried on a hot day and without drinking enough fluids. The 10-mile march must be completed in 1 hour and 50 minutes and it forms part of the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme that recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment, held regularly at Catterick army barracks in Yorkshire, need to pass (with other tests) before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • While being shouted and screamed at by a tattooed instructor, a squad of 8 soldier recruits experience the extreme exhaustion and stress during an army team event in which they haul a log (a telegraph pole) weighing 60 kg over 1.9 miles (3.1 km) of undulating terrain. Candidates wear only a numbered helmet and webbing but all their energies must go into performing as a team and completing the course in the time allotted. This is supposed to be one of the hardest events of what the 14-week long Pegasus (P) Company selection programme. Recruits wanting to join the British Army's elite Parachute Regiment held regularly at Catterick army barracks, Yorkshire need to pass this and other tests before earning the right to wear the esteemed maroon beret.
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  • With great care, two surgeons work intensely during an open heart procedure at the private Health Care International hospital, They wear hygienic face masks and do their intricate work carefully. This hospital delivered only high-end medicine to foreign patients and telemedicine was popular in the 90s when a growing awareness of the potential benefits of advanced medicine, emerging democracies, growing middle classes and an ageing population world-wide established locations like this in Scotland. But they were expensive to build and run and this hospital at Clydebank of up to 500 beds catered primarily for foreigners who flew into Glasgow airport, was built with the assistance of £30 million of public money, went into receivership when its target of overseas business was slower to build-up impacting its cash flows.
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  • The private parts of naked women models, photographed in black and white by German-Australian photographer Helmut Newton, have been censored with post-it notes in the window of a picture framers in Bermondsey, on 15th August 2019, in London, England.
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  • A plastic food tray of prime Maldives-sourced yellow fin tuna steaks makes its journey along a conveyor belt at New England seafood suppliers in Chessington, London England. Driven along by a blue chain it will next be sealed before shipment. Flown by air freight from the Maldives where it has been traditionally line caught in the Indian Ocean, this fish is bound for the UK's main supermarkets. New England Seafood is a major supplier of fresh and frozen premium sustainable fish and seafood in the UK and one of the largest importers of fresh tuna. Their customers are: the UK’s leading supermarkets including Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose; as well as smaller retail outlets; restaurant chains; food service markets and wholesale sectors nationwide.
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  • Families queue in the grounds of the Naval College, Greenwich past a giant inflatable figure of a member of Royal Marines Commandos. During a public open-day in Greenwich, London when the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious docked on the river Thames, allowing the tax-paying public to tour its decks before its decommisioning. Navy personnel helped with the PR event over the May weekend, historically the home of Britain's naval fleet.
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  • British-born Flight Nurse Barbara Thompson listens to a Native American patient’s breathing in the ER at the San Carlos Apache reservation hospital. British-born Barbara has worked as a nurse in the UK and US for 20 years and listens to her patient’s lungs with a stethoscope as they poor lady lays back on a gurney with an oxygen line to help her difficulties. San Carlos is a 1.8m acre area of scrub and tiny settlements 100 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona with an 11,000 population, its hospital attracting patients from a radius of 20 miles. By flying her she can have far better specialist care at the Indian Medical Center in Phoenix than can be provided in San Carlos who have only a few doctors and four beds. Native American Air Ambulance (NAAA) is the brainchild of Okalahoma native Cherokee Rick Heape Williams.
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  • A detail of a second world war Canadian veteran's chest, festooned with gleaming military campaign medals that symbolise an era of conflict, warfare and especially of survival. Seen as a close-up of polished silver, gold and zinc-alloy, we see only the upper body minus the face of this old soldier whose campaigns include the D-Day landings at Normandy in 1944 because at the bottom of his rack of fine insignia is a badge denoting the Normandy Veterans Association. Elsewhere, a medal is worn for service in Palestine. The unseen gentleman wears a Canadian pin at the top and the contribution of his fellow-countrymen as members of the British Commonwealth is recognised in battlefield cemeteries around the world. But on this day, the 11th November, old soldiers like him march past London's Cenotaph to remember friends who did not return from war.
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  • The rare Victoria Cross is worn on the chest of the celebrated Nepali war veteran Bhanu Bhagta Gurung (also written Bhanubhakta), an ex-soldier of the British Gurkha regiment who in the second world war, earned his medals from repeated bravery against Japanese positions in Burma. He sits here on the terrace of his home, above the misty valley of Gorkha, Central Nepal. He is one of the last survivors of the remarkably brave men  who helped defeat the enemy in the jungles of south-east Asia. Gurung is the name of his Nepalese tribe (like the Sherpas who also come from the high Himalayan Kingdom). His company commander described him as "a smiling, hard-swearing and indomitable soldier who in a battalion of brave men was one of the bravest". Born September 1921 - died March 1 2008.
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  • The chef Marco Pierre-White works in the kitchens of the Hyde Park Hotel. Handing a number of carefully loaded plates on to a tray, he makes sure that all is well before allowing the waiter to walk out of the kitchen, into the front of house on the main restaurant floor where diners await. Marco Pierre White (born 11 December 1961) is a British celebrity chef, restaurateur and television personality. He is noted for his contributions to contemporary international cuisine and his exceptional culinary skills. White has been dubbed the first celebrity chef enfant terrible of the UK restaurant scene and the Godfather of modern cooking. White was, at the time, the youngest chef ever to have been awarded three Michelin stars.
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  • A model's face appears to belong to a womens' fashion window mannequin in Chelsea. Juxtaposed with the woman’s head over the neck and shoulders of the mannequin, we get the sense of a whole body, as if caught as one person at a party or social event. This shop is on Chelsea’s Kings Road, one of the trendiest streets on which buy pricey clothes and accessories.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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