A bell is cast for St Mary’s parish church in Twyford, Hampshire. John Taylor’s bell foundry in Loughborough is the largest working bell foundry in the world and the only one left in Britain. It cast the bell for London’s St Paul’s Cathedral in 1881
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP
Ride and shine: A 1908 Rainier Model D seven-passenger touring car is given a good polish before its auction at Bonhams. The sole survivor of its model, it is estimated to fetch £170,000-£220,000
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Cushty... A three-month exhibition profiling front and backstage crew in London’s theatre industry — including the stars of the Only Fools and Horses musical — was launched by the photographer and film-maker Rankin in the West End
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The Italian air force’s aerobatic display team flies over Venice Square in Rome to mark national army day. Beauty of an older kind points them in the right direction
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Afghans head towards the reopened Pakistan-Afghanistan commercial border at Spin Boldak, nearly a month after the Taliban closed it in protest against Islamabad travel rules. The crossing had remained closed despite repeated protests
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Activists dressed as Pikachu, the Pokémon character that uses electricity in battle, descended on the Pacific Quay opposite the Cop26 campus in Glasgow to call on Japan to stop financing overseas coal projects and phase out domestic coal by 2030
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The Saatchi Gallery in west London displays a kaleidoscope of Instagram posts from 50 British stars including, from left to right, Otamere Guobadia, Ellie Goldstein, Akafi Ali, Jamie Windust and Myla. Yours To Make has been billed as a visual journey through a fantasy 3D world of self-exploration
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As far as photographs of statues go, surely none can hold a candle to this sunset image of the Statue of Liberty
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A player of the newly established Saudi women’s national football team tackles a training session at the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium in Riyadh. The session was led by their German coach Monika Staab
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Kings of the jungle enclosure: Two lion cubs made their public debut at Taronga zoo in Sydney. They were two of five born 12 weeks ago
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A cow is worshipped during the Gai Puja, also known as Cow Worship Day, as part of the Hindu Tihar festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. Cows are considered the incarnation of Lord Laxmi, the god of wealth
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The actress Gal Gadot put on a suitably coloured dress for the world premiere of Netflix's Red Notice in Los Angeles. The 36-year-old was joined on the red carpet by her co-stars Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds
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Stop and star: The northern lights were visible on Hadrian’s wall on Wednesday night after a coronal mass ejection from the sun — a solar “burp”. The heavenly spectacle could also be seen in other parts of the country
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A climate protester advertises her cause on her face as she prepares for a demonstration on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street during Cop26
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A kestrel for a knave, as the saying goes. But after squabbling over food, these two appeared to show some class by making up. They were photographed in Bourne, Lincolnshire by Nick Holland, who sat in a hide 15m away
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