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  • People leave flowers at Cambridge Gate at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, following the announcement of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh at the age of 99. Picture date: Friday April 9, 2021.

  • Soprano singer Laura Wright poses next to the finishing post during Liverpool NHS Day of the 2021 Randox Health Grand National Festival at Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool. Picture date: Thursday April 8, 2021.

  • Chris Brown, the Town Crier and Mayor's Serjant of Wimborne Minster, in Dorset, exercises his right as an Honorary Freeman to drive sheep through Wimborne without charge, albeit through the Wimborne Model Town, to herald their re-opening on 12th April after the easing of lockdown restrictions. Picture date: Wednesday April 7, 2021.

  • Labour's Mayor of London Sadiq Khan (left) is joined by shadow business secretary Ed Miliband at the Play, Adventure & Community Engagement Fairfield Play Centre play in North London to meet with staff and children as they take part in hands-on, environmentally-friendly activities following Khan's manifesto launch for the London Mayoral election. Picture date: Tuesday April 6, 2021.

  • People enjoy the sunshine on Primrose Hill in London. Picture date: Sunday April 4, 2021.

  • A flock of Pelicans seen swimming towards a Heron in St James' Park as Londoner's take advantage of sunny weather on Easter Sunday. (Photo by Brett Cove / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

  • The PSNI on Northland in Carrickfergus near Belfast following sporadic outbursts of disorder. Picture date: Sunday April 4, 2021.

  • Manchester United's Marcus Rashford has a shot at goal during the Premier League match at Old Trafford, Manchester. Picture date: Sunday April 4, 2021.

  • Cambridge celebrate winning the 166th Men's Boat Race on the River Great Ouse near Ely in Cambridgeshire. Picture date: Sunday April 4, 2021.

  • A QPR supporters FC player pulls a goal net during the Chiswick and District Sunday League match at Brentford playing fields, Brentford. Picture date: Sunday April 4, 2021.

  • Members of the congregation social distance during the Easter Sunday service at the Holy Trinity Sloane Square church in Chelsea, London. Picture date: Sunday April 4, 2021.

  • People sat enjoying the sunshine in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. Picture date: Sunday April 4, 2021.

  • RETRANSMITTING REMOVING EMBARGO Legoland Model Maker Nicola Parker adds a brick to a model of a Lego giraffe, as finishing touches are made at the Legoland Windsor Resort as they prepare to welcome back visitors on 12th April after the easing of lockdown restrictions. Picture date: Tuesday April 6, 2021.

  • A swan on a nest at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). The grounds of the park are open and the YSP is looking forward to welcoming visitors back to other areas as soon as government restrictions allow. Picture date: Tuesday April 6, 2021.

  • George Thewlis (left) and Benjamin Thewlis play near a work titled 'Pop Galo' by artist Joana Vasconcelosat at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). The grounds of the park are open and the YSP is looking forward to welcoming visitors back to other areas as soon as government restrictions allow. Picture date: Tuesday April 6, 2021.

  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to the AstraZeneca site in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Picture date: Tuesday April 6, 2021.

  • Ground staff prepare the Trent Bridge playing surface ready for the start of the new Cricket season, which begins on Thursday. Picture date: Tuesday April 6, 2021.

  • Visitors Max Blyth (left) and Finton Blyth view a work titled 'Solitaire' by artist Joana Vasconcelos at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). The grounds of the park are open and the YSP is looking forward to welcoming visitors back to other areas as soon as government restrictions allow. Picture date: Tuesday April 6, 2021. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)

  • SHREWSBURY, ENGLAND - APRIL 06: A employee of the White Horse Pub organizes beer kegs after the delivery from Joules Brewery on April 06, 2021 in Shrewsbury, England. Joules Brewery is a small craft beer brewery producing 7,000 barrels a year or 2 million pints. Their flagship beer is Green Monkey which sells 300,000 pints a year. Pubs and restaurants are allowed to open in England from April 12 for outdoor table service only. (Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)

  • The Duchess of Cornwall during a visit to the London Islamic Cultural Society at Wightman Road Mosque in Haringey, to learn how the organisation has supported the local community through the coronavirus pandemic. Picture date: Wednesday April 7, 2021.

  • A general view of owners in the empty stands ahead of the MansionBet Bet 10 Get 20 Novice Stakes at Nottingham Racecourse. Picture date: Wednesday April 7, 2021.

  • Deliveroo riders from the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) in the City of London, as they go on strike in a dispute for fair pay, safety protections and basic workers' rights. Picture date: Wednesday April 7, 2021.

  • A Lemur near a "welcome back" sign at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, where staff are preparing the attraction ahead of reopening to the public on the 12th April when further lockdown restrictions are eased. Picture date: Wednesday April 7, 2021.

  • First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), Nicola Sturgeon, in Queen's Park, Glasgow, during campaigning for the Scottish Parliamentary election. Picture date: Wednesday April 7, 2021.

  • Leader of the Reclaim Party, Laurence Fox, at the launch of their party manifesto for the London Mayoral election, in Parliament Square, Westminster, central London. Picture date: Wednesday April 7, 2021.

  • Former soldier Lance Martin, 63, sits in the back garden of his home in Hemsby, Norfolk, where his back door is now no more than six metres (20ft) from the cliff edge after more land has been lost to the sea in the past few days. Around 30 metres of cliff were lost to the tides when the Beast from the East battered the coast in March 2018, and Mr Martin's home is the last remaining from a row of 13 houses. Picture date: Wednesday April 7, 2021.

  • Bereaved families gather to mark the completion of painting of approximately 150,000 hearts onto the National Covid Memorial Wall on the Embankment in London. More than one thousand people, including the bereaved, NHS staff, volunteers and members of the public have been painting hearts onto the wall, which now stretches for around half a kilometre, to represent loved ones lost to the virus in the UK. Picture date: Thursday April 8, 2021.

  • Staff member Perrie Hinton-Davy at Clapham Leisure Centre, south London, readies the gym facilities, as they prepare for reopening on April 12 when further lockdown restrictions are eased in England. Picture date: Thursday April 8, 2021.

  • Fantail doves are returned to the ancient dovecote at Snowshill Manor and Garden in Gloucestershire. The National Trust property has taken delivery of 40 white fantail doves after the garden's dove population dwindled in recent years. There is a long history of doves at the manor house, with the dovecote dating to the late 16th or early 17th century. Picture date: Friday April 9, 2021.

  • A police officer mans a cordon at the junction of Moor Lane and Langham Lane in Gillingham, Dorset, following the death of Sir Richard Sutton, who owned a string of top hotels in London, who died during an incident at a property near Gillingham, Dorset. A 34-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering the millionaire hotelier remains in hospital, police said. Picture date: Friday April 9, 2021.

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