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The French designer Camille Walala unveils Square Eyes at The Lowry in Manchester
ANTHONY DEVLIN FOR THE TIMES
Kevin Higgins and Mandy Tarry took their 1924 Fowler roller The Highlander to Henham Steam and Country Show in Suffolk. The first British steamroller weighed 30 tons and was made in 1863, but the road authorities were unimpressed by it so it was shipped to India. Later models were lighter and more manoeuvrable
JASON BYE FOR THE TIMES
A double rainbow at Latrigg Fell in the Lake District. In the second rainbow the colours are reversed, with violet on top and red at the bottom
GEORDIE VAN LIFE/ANIMAL NEWS AGENCY
A dog was among mourners at funeral services for Cody Becker, Mark Baker and Isaiah Emenheiser, Pennsylvania detectives who were shot while investigating a domestic abuse case
MATT ROURKE/AP
A misty morning at Llwyn Onn reservoir, near Merthyr Tydfil, which is fed by Afon Taf Fawr, which means Big River Taff
ANDREW BARTLETT/COVER IMAGES
Sandro Dias reached a top speed of 64mph during the Red Bull Building Drop in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He skated from a height of 70m with a drop of 60m
MARCELO MARAGNI/RED BULL CONTENT POOL
The stars of the Milky Way glow brightly in the clear night sky above the Hardy Monument at Black Down, near Portesham in Dorset. The monument was built in 1844 in memory of the flag captain of HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar
GRAHAM HUNT/ALAMY
The Biba Story: 1964–1975 opens at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh in February and explores how Biba transformed from a mail-order boutique into the world’s first lifestyle brand
PHIL WILKINSON
The Spanish ship, Galeón Andalucía, in Liverpool, is a replica of the galleons that sailed the Atlantic, navigated the Caribbean and American coasts and covered the vast Pacific route
GREGG WOLSTENHOLME/BAV MEDIA
A giraffe reacts to a media visit to Paris Zoo in the Bois de Vincennes
TOM NICHOLSON/REUTERS
Autumn colours are at their best at A Haven Townhouse, a hotel in Edinburgh
PHIL WILKINSON
Volunteers pick comice pears at Laurel Fruit Farm at Boars Head in East Sussex. The pears, which are firm when picked but ripen over a few days, are distributed to foodbanks and schools and other people who otherwise might not have easy access to fresh fruit
JON SANTA CRUZ
Egrets, over wetlands in Orissa, India, dance both for hunting and courtship
AVIJIT GHORAI/SOLENT NEWS
About 1300 students turned out for The Hop, a fancy dress night out organised by medical students in Birmingham
BRITISH NEWS AND MEDIA/ALAMY
The Canadian Memorial on the A3 in Hampshire was planted in memory of 418 men who gave their lives in the First World War and are buried in the churchyards of Bramshott and Grayshott. The original sycamores were replaced in the 1980s by maples imported from Canada
SIMON CZAPP/SOLENT NEWS
A view of light installation during Illumination NYC, a three-night light art festival, in Wagner Park, New York
ERIK PENDZICH/SHUTTERSTOCK
Snails find a dumpy tree frog worth exploring in Jakarta, Indonesia
DZUL DZULFRIKI/SOLENT NEWS
A German soldier demonstrates the HP 47 drone jammer with which he can stop and take control of any drone that uses radio frequency communications
LISI NIESNER/REUTERS
Dakota Johnson arrived at the 21st Zurich Film Festival in a “naked dress”
ANDREAS RENTZ/GETTY IMAGES
Cosplayers dressed as Deadpool perform with a visitor at the San Diego Comic-Con Malaga, in southern Spain
MARCELO DEL POZO/REUTERS
Salmon and trout on the River Tyne at Hexham jump to reach their spawning grounds
SIMON WOODLEY/COVER IMAGES
The Dutch rider Anna van der Breggen competes in the women’s elite individual time trial event at the road cycling World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda
JEROME DELAY/AP
In Richmond, Surrey, stags often adorn themselves with bracken or foliage in their antlers to make themselves look more impressive to potential mates
ROBERT PIPER/CATERS NEWS AGENCY
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