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Pictures of the week: February 28 - March 6
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  • A pair of Britain's World War II Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's monogrammed midnight blue velvet evening slippers from the 1950s are displayed for photographs by specialist Julien Dineen at the Bellmans auctioneers, near Billingshurst, southern England, Thursday, March 4, 2021. The slippers are estimated to fetch 10,000 to 15,000 pounds (US $14,000 to $21,000, and 12,000 to 17,000 euro) when they feature in an auction due to take place on March 9. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

  • Students Ellie Fisher (left) and Beth Hicks (right) take Coronavirus lateral flow tests at Outwood Academy Adwick in Doncaster, ahead of schools and colleges fully reopening on Monday. Picture date: Friday March 5, 2021.

  • Jockeys leaves the weighing room ahead of the C.B.Protection Mares' Handicap Hurdle at Ludlow Racecourse. Picture date: Thursday March 4, 2021.

  • Amanda Holden transforms into the Queen of Hearts for World Book Day at Global Radio Studios in London. (Photo by Phil Lewis / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

  • The Duchess of Cornwall poses for a photograph with volunteers during a visit to the Community Vaccination Centre at St Paul's Church, Croydon, where she thanked NHS staff and church representatives supporting the UK vaccination rollout. Picture date: Wednesday March 3, 2021.

  • (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 25, 2021 shows (top) a general view of the Moroccan city of Marrakesh on February 24 , 2021, and (bottom) gallery workers pose with an artwork titled Tower of Koutoubia Mosque by Winston Churchill during a photocall at Christies auction house in central London on February 17, 2021. - Hollywood's Angelina Jolie and Britain's iconic wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, a keen artist who took inspiration from the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, are combining for a March 1 date at Christie's auction house in London. (Photos by FADEL SENNA and Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA,TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

  • TOPSHOT - Members of the public pause to look at an artwork bearing the hallmarks of street artist Banksy on the side of Reading Prison in Reading, west of London, on March 2, 2021. - The picture shows a prisoner, possibly resembling famous inmate Oscar Wilde, escaping on a rope made of bedsheets tied to a typewriter. The work has not yet been claimed by Banksy. (Photo by BEN STANSALL / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

  • The Novavax logo is seen with a hand holding a vial in this illustration photo in Warsaw, Poland on March 1, 2021. The SARS-CoV-2 vaccine produced by the US biotechnology company Novavax is 95.6% effective against the original variant of SARS-CoV-2 and also provides protection against the newer variants such as those from the UK and South Africa. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

  • Members of the Armed Forces conduct a Covid-19 asymptomatic test on a sample from a member of the public at a community hall at the Central Mosque in Glasgow as a Covid-19 asymptomatic testing centre opens there today, as lockdown measures for mainland Scotland continue. Picture date: Monday March 1, 2021. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)

  • Sophia Gibson holds a Crocus on the first day of Meteorological Spring at Kirkstall Abbey Park in Leeds, Yorkshire. Picture date: Monday March 1, 2021. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)

  • A woman sunbathes in Old Portsmouth, Hampshire, on the first day of meteorological spring. Picture date: Monday March 1, 2021. (Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images)

  • Amanda Holden and Jamie Theakston pose outside the I Heart Studios in London. (Photo by Phil Lewis / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

  • Commuters on a tube train at Canning Town station in London after a rail fare increase came into effect in England and Wales on Monday. Ticket prices will increase by around 2.6 percent, leading to accusations that the UK Government is "pricing the railways out of existence". Issue date: Monday March 1, 2021.

  • CARDIFF, WALES - MARCH 02: Children play outdoors at Bryn Hafod Primary School on March 2, 2021 in Cardiff, Wales. Children aged three to seven began a phased return to school in Wales from February 22. Wales education minister Kirsty Williams has said more primary school children will be able to return to face-to-face learning from March 15 if coronavirus cases continue to fall. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

  • Londoners in protective face masks walk in East Street Market a day before the UK"s Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to deliver his Budget, amidst the ongoing Coronavirus lockdown�on March 2, 2021, in London, England.

  • File photo dated 23/01/21 of a nurse giving a Covid-19 vaccine. The percentage of people in the UK who say they are likely to take a coronavirus vaccine has risen, but there remains a gap in willingness between white Britons and those from a minority ethnic background, a survey has suggested.

  • A protester wears a gas mask written on Liberate Hong Kong during the demonstration. About 50 Hong Kong supporters gathered in Piccadilly Circus in London to express solidarity in support of the 47 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists who helped in the primary election last year and were charged with conspiracy to subvert state power under the National Security Law as they attend their first court hearing in Hong Kong. (Photo by May James / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

  • Artist Kaya Mar holds up his painting depicting Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak near Downing Street in London, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce billions of pounds in tax cuts and spending increases to help workers and businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic when he delivers his budget to Parliament on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

  • Britain's Chancellor Rishi Sunak stands with his red briefcase in front of 11 Downing Street in London, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Sunak is expected to announce billions of pounds in tax cuts and spending increases to help workers and businesses hit by the coronavirus pandemic when he delivers his budget to Parliament on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

  • A police officer carries a balloon and a get well message for the Duke of Edinburgh outside St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he is being treated for an infection and undergoing tests and observation for a pre-existing heart condition. The Duke was previously admitted to the King Edward VII hospital on the evening of Tuesday February 16. Picture date: Wednesday March 3, 2021.

  • Shoppers at the new Amazon Fresh store, the UK�s first, in Ealing, London. Photo date: Thursday, March 4, 2021. Photo credit should read: Richard Gray/EMPICS

  • A man walks across Wanstead Park engulfed in fog for most of the morning. Most of London was engulfed in fog patches with temperatures reduced to 2 degrees. The frosty nights and low visibility is expected to remain for another week. (Photo by David Mbiyu / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

  • Ciaran Teehan watches Danny Baggish throw during day one of the Ladbrokes UK Open 2021 tournament at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes. Picture date: Friday March 5, 2021.

  • ENFIELD, ENGLAND - MARCH 05: Ria Percival and Gemma Davison of Tottenham Hotspur Women during the Tottenham Hotspur Women training session at Tottenham Hotspur Training Centre on March 05, 2021 in Enfield, England. (Photo by Tottenham Hotspur FC/Tottenham Hotspur FC via Getty Images)

  • Runners circle at the start for The BetVictor Juvenile Hurdle at Newbury Racecourse. Picture date: Friday March 5, 2021.

  • Tottenham's Harry Kane holds the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Fulham v Tottenham Hotspur at the Craven Cottage stadium in London, Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

  • An empty classroom at Great Academy Ashton, as the school prepares for its reopening on March 8 after the latest lockdown curb the spread of coronavirus, in Ashton-Under-Lyne, England, Thursday, March 4, 2021. The school for approximately 1300 pupils aged 11 to 16 in Greater Manchester will have to conduct around 450 tests per day on pupils and staff in the first 2 weeks after the return of students on Monday. (AP Photo Jon Super)

  • Joby Carter works on the restoration of Billy Smart's Royal Windsor Wagon at Carters Yard in White Waltham Berkshire, which once restored will become unique travelling AirBnB, giving guests the opportunity to experience how showmen lived. Picture date: Friday March 5, 2021.

  • Former Wales international Alix Popham training at his home in Newport, South Wales, ahead of a Head For Change Rugby Ride Challenge. Picture date: Friday March 5, 2021.

  • Embargoed to 2200hrs GMT Saturday March 6, 2020. Queen Elizabeth II walks past Commonwealth flags in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle , to mark Commonwealth Day.

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