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This Week in Pictures: Peterborough

News imageTipsy Cow Freya, a woman with brown hair, wearing a green jersey holding a white and blue football, smiling for camera.Tipsy Cow
Freya works at Tipsy Cow, one of the venues in Peterborough screening World Cup Matches. The venue hopes it can help boost its business

From World Cup screenings to new 'basketball hoop' waste bins and a visit from a government minister, a lot has happened in Peterborough this week.

Here are some pictures to recap the past seven days.

You can send us your images at shariqua.s.ahmed@bbc.co.uk.

News imageElliot Deady/BBC Three people installing a bin on a lamp-post. The bin is made from an orange basketball hoop with a translucent plastic bag attached to it. All three volunteers are wearing high visibility jackets.Elliot Deady/BBC
A litter group in Peterborough installed upside down basketball hoops to cope with a lack of bins and reduce littering
News imagePeterborough Walks A fox standing on the railway tracks, with his face turned to the camera.Peterborough Walks
"What are you looking at?" Mr Fox posing by the railway tracks by Nene Valley Railway
News imageJOANNA TAYLOR/BBC Jan Forster smiling at the camera and holding a small black-and-white dog. She is wearing a blue raincoat with the hood up and tinted glasses with brightly coloured frames. behind her is the field, fence and a white van. JOANNA TAYLOR/BBC
Jan Forster was among the residents who spoke out after campaigners lost a key battle in the Ken Stimpson fencing row in Peterborough
News imageShariqua Ahmed/ BBC A group of people - including a woman in white, a man in a red checked shirt, another woman who is facing her back to camera and Andrew Pakes - all chatting to Steve Reed.Shariqua Ahmed/ BBC
Steve Reed (Centre in the grey suit) visited the Brookside Methodist Church in Gunthorpe, and spoke to local residents during a weekly lunch club, about the Pride in Place initiative
News imageNational Trust Images/Mike Selby A view of Lyveden Lodge through trees and across grass. It shows a roofless late Elizabethan stone built building. National Trust Images/Mike Selby
A Tudor lodge famed for Catholic symbolism reopened near Peterborough

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