Sun breaks through lofty tree cover to light Umberslade Estate in Arden, Warwickshire. Conditions in England are due to improve in mid-August but no heatwave is expected
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Up, up and away: hot-air balloons launch from a park in Filton, Bristol, as part of Fiesta Fortnight, which has replaced the cancelled Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
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Sea legs: the pandemic did not stop the Sanlucar horse races on the sands in Andalucia, an annual event since at least 1845
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Chris Slee and Tom Hooper of Devon brush up for the Valais Blacknose Society’s first national show, celebrating the Swiss sheep whose long fleece and black features earn it plaudits as the cutest breed. Rams have sold for £10,000
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Boys Playing at Cricket by the 19th-century painter William Mulready has not been seen at the Royal Academy since the 1940s and will be auctioned at Bonhams on September 22 with an estimate of £8,000 to £12,000
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Extreme drought in Utah creates evaporation ponds in the Great Salt Lake which are made pinkish-red by their salinity. The largest saltwater lake in the western hemisphere, it has fallen to its lowest level on record under conditions attributed to climate change, generating dust from the exposed lakebed that could damage air quality
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Patterns are hand painted onto lanterns that light up the Vietnamese city of Hoi An at its full moon festival. Motor vehicles are banned from its old town and electricity is kept to a minimum but tourism is nonetheless seen as a threat to the port’s heritage
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