![Summer nights: a fine sunset across Greenwich Park, southeast London. Showers or longer spells of rain are expected across much of the country today, some of it with thunder](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F9ec4cc00-7bb1-11e7-a055-7c0a66949601.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
Summer nights: a fine sunset across Greenwich Park, southeast London. Showers or longer spells of rain are expected across much of the country today, some of it with thunder
GUY CORBISHLEY/ALAMY
![Outfoxed: undeterred by the family’s dog, foxes have become regular visitors to the garden of Annie Brookes in Leicester](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fbeb56004-7b6d-11e7-bc64-877969c68864.jpg?crop=3200%2C2133%2C0%2C0)
Outfoxed: undeterred by the family’s dog, foxes have become regular visitors to the garden of Annie Brookes in Leicester
ANNIE BROOKES/LNP
![Green fingers: Kylie Dibb, 11, tends flowers at Sladen Bridge, West Yorkshire](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F60316694-7b6e-11e7-bc64-877969c68864.jpg?crop=4960%2C3307%2C0%2C0)
Green fingers: Kylie Dibb, 11, tends flowers at Sladen Bridge, West Yorkshire
LORNE CAMPBELL/GUZELIAN
![Some light gardening: it takes two weeks to trim the world’s tallest yew hedge on the Bathurst Estate, Gloucestershire. The mountain of cuttings from the 300-year-old plant are used to make cancer drugs](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fcaf93720-7bb1-11e7-a055-7c0a66949601.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
Some light gardening: it takes two weeks to trim the world’s tallest yew hedge on the Bathurst Estate, Gloucestershire. The mountain of cuttings from the 300-year-old plant are used to make cancer drugs
PETER MACDIARMID/LNP
![Leading the pack: the Cranwell Bloodhounds have their first exercise of the season in Lincolnshire. They take part in about 20 hunt days between September and March](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fb2cd82c8-7bb1-11e7-a055-7c0a66949601.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
Leading the pack: the Cranwell Bloodhounds have their first exercise of the season in Lincolnshire. They take part in about 20 hunt days between September and March
MATT LIMB OBE/ALAMY
![Drummer girl: the Scots School Albury pipe and drums band have travelled from New South Wales to take part in this year’s Glasgow International Piping Festival](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F2309e8c6-7b9c-11e7-a055-7c0a66949601.jpg?crop=3280%2C4920%2C0%2C0)
Drummer girl: the Scots School Albury pipe and drums band have travelled from New South Wales to take part in this year’s Glasgow International Piping Festival
WATTIE CHEUNG
![World of bounty: chillis are dried in Sariakandi, Bangladesh](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F97c2af08-7bb1-11e7-a055-7c0a66949601.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
World of bounty: chillis are dried in Sariakandi, Bangladesh
ABDUL MOMIN/SOLENT
![Minority report: a Burmese government inquiry has cleared its forces of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. Amnesty International called it a whitewash](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fc04d52a2-7bb1-11e7-a055-7c0a66949601.jpg?crop=1500%2C1000%2C0%2C0)
Minority report: a Burmese government inquiry has cleared its forces of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. Amnesty International called it a whitewash
YE AUNG THU/AFP