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A parade of vintage vehicles drives down Bridlington’s old High Street, once used as a location for the television series Dad’s Army. An estimated 80,000 people are expected this weekend in the east Yorkshire town for the Race the Waves motoring festival, when a host of classic cars will race along the beach
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP

A rare surviving gown worn at Queen Charlotte’s court in the 1760s and on loan from the Fashion Museum in Bath is going on display at The Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace as part of the exhibition Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians. It runs until October and brings together more than 200 works from the Royal Collection
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE

A giant depiction of George IV is among the paintings, prints and drawings on display at the exhibition. Visitors can also view jewelery and a range of accessories from snuff boxes to swords
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE

Ballet students stretch in the Chorillos district, south of Lima. Their instructor, Maria del Carmen Silva, concedes that most of the girls have little chance of becoming a professional
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A Dartmouth Steam Railway train passes beach huts on a trip along the south Devon coast. The organization is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year
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Sophie Busk checks on her blossoming pear tree at Houghton Lodge in Stockbridge, Hampshire. At 53ft 11in, it is the Guinness World Record holder for the longest cultivated plant, which are trained to grow flat against a wall or fence. The tree is thought to date to the 1800s
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Anton Du Beke and his dancers rehearse at a studio in Fulham, west London, for his UK solo tour, which begins in Northampton today
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A border terrier, just released from his lead, chases a ball across a field outside Durham
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The London Eye, photographed from Greenwich, forms a circular frame around the setting sun
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In Western Australia, people gather on a remote peninsula to observe a total solar eclipse. The sky over the town of Exmouth went dark for about a minute yesterday
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An aerial view of the Ibri solar plant in the middle of the desert in Oman shows a giant painting by the artist Saype of a boy using the sustainable technology to power a light bulb. The facility covers an area of about 13 million sq m and can supply energy to about 50,000 homes
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Swallows perch on electric power lines at sunset in Eldorado do Carajás, Pará state, Brazil
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Bikers gather at a toll bridge as they leave Dhaka to be with their families and celebrate Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan
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King Felipe VI of Spain watches an equestrian exhibition at a historic bullring in the town of Ronda, in Málaga province. The town’s royal cavalry school is celebrating its 450th anniversary
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Flight attendants for the Taiwanese airline Starlux are taught emergency landing procedures at a pool in Taoyuan, in the northwest of the country
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A baby buffalo joins a pair of adults cooling off in the Bogra Gabtoli canal in Bangladesh. The herd stayed there in the scorching sun for almost an hour and a half
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Ukrainian soldiers on the front line fire a D-30 howitzer near Bakhmut in Donetsk
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Images on social media showed hailstones the size of golf balls falling during a storm in Yukon, Oklahoma
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Sea lions relax in the sun at Pier 39 of Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco
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A resident of a “cat hotel” in Jakarta tolerates a shower. Owners going on holiday can leave their pets at the venue and the animals are monitored on 24-hour surveillance cameras
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A man celebrating 420 — or Weed Day — lights up in Melbourne. The event is marked around the world
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In Hyde Park, London, Weed Day participants were lost in the haze
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A brown bear cub at Lake Clark national park in Alaska. The photographer said the animal managed to tip over camera equipment worth thousands of pounds while larking about, but caused no damage
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