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  1. Richard Clothier looks at the camera with the Bath and West show behind him.

  2. People using a water fountain to top up their water bottles in the Spring heat to keep cool and hydrated during the first heatwave of the year

  3. A woman shades her head with a fan in front of Jeronimos Monastery in Belem, Portugal

  4. Performer Wyn Wylie, in drag as Pattie Gonia, wearing a yellow weatherproof dress with heavy face make up and long ginger hair.

  5. Jonathan Gullis in a dark suit and blue patterned tie, with trees and a red brick building behind him

    6. A graphical composite image showing the BBC Verify logo and a temperature map of the UK.

    • An aerial shot of a white outline of a club-wielding naked man on a green grass hill. People are seen dotted around the white figure, some are crouching on the ground and others are walking and carrying some kits in their hands.

    • People walk around a fountain, with blue sky and bright sunshine in the background. One woman is holding an umbrella for shade; other people are wearing sunhats and carrying bottles of water.

    • A statue including a shiny metal tree without leaves and a person leaning up against it on a scenic base with a white brick wall behind it

    • Aerial view of Holes Bay Road, a dual carriageway alongside coastal rock defences. Behind it are houses and commercial buildings.

    • Wind turbines on top of a hill

    • Split-screen showing packed river cruise in Paris on the left, and woman wearing sunglasses on the right being interviewed

    • Paris 'punishingly hot' as Western Europe hit by heatwave

    • A triangular pink and yellow ice lolly against a bright blue sky.

    • A White-tailed Eagle is flying above heathland in Mull Island, Scotland in 2017. It has brown body with a pale head, a grey neck and white tail feathers. Its broad wings are open wide. Its chunky beak is yellow.

    • A Bournemouth beach full of people sitting under brightly-coloured sun umbrellas.

    • A woman in a grey t-shirt and blue jeans is smiling at the camera. She is standing in a grassy field and there are plastic tubes sticking up from the ground which are acting as shoots for the planted trees to grow through.

    • A teenage boy with a tote bag over his shoulder leans over a desk with a map on it. Behind the table two adult women and look downwards

      • A woman with brown hair stares directly at the camera wearing a red bandeau, using a pink and yellow fan, with sunglasses on and a white shell necklace. In the background other festival goers are blurred

      • A tractor spreading slurry in a field

      • A large yellow rose.

      • A glow worm attached to a shard of grass. Its tail is illuminated bright green/yellow

      • Three people walk past damaged houses and fallen trees. The rubble is piled up behind them as they walk from left to right. The sky is light blue with clouds.

        • BBC World Service