The rapeseed is in bloom in Salthouse on the north Norfolk coast
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Lisa Timbs, dressed as Anne Lister, performs scores owned by the 19th-century heiress at the family’s ancestral home, Shibden Hall in Halifax. Timbs recently completed a year-long research project on Lister’s repertoire of popular scores which, she says, formed the soundtrack to her teenage years and had been bound into two volumes. Lister is portrayed in the BBC period drama Gentleman Jack
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Purple Hibiscus, 2023-24, by the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, is hung outside the Barbican. The installation comprises 100 traditional robes, called batakaris, worn by Ghanaian kings. It has been installed to coincide with the exhibition Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
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A Sikh devotee demonstrates sword-fighting techniques during the Nagar Kirtan procession in Southall, west London. Held during the festival of Vaisakhi, which celebrates the spring harvest in Punjab and northern India, the walk is often undertaken shoeless
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Sir Ed Davey meets Isabel, 7, during a visit to Snap, a children’s charity in Brentford, Essex. The Liberal Democrat leader has proposed the launch of a national agency to support youngsters with disabilities and special educational needs
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The shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, and the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, meet Casey Westwood and her baby, Ralphie, during a visit to King’s Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Starmer and Streeting have unveiled their party’s plans to digitise the “red book” of children’s health records
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These baby Bactrian camels, both boys, venture out for the first time at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, near Doncaster. The calves, which have yet to be named, were born within hours of each other one month ago
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White Cube Bermondsey will show more than 50 works by Georg Baselitz in an exhibition that has taken over the south London gallery’s entire space. Opening tomorrow and running until June 16, Georg Baselitz: A Confession of My Sins features canvases measuring over 3 x 5 metres. Each painting records the 86-year-old artist’s movements, including trails left by his walking frame and the trolley holding his paint
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An activist from Youth Demand attacks the Labour party headquarters in London. The campaign group is calling for action to curb climate change and for the end of arms sales to Israel
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About 600 tonnes of rock broke away from cliffs at West Bay, Dorset, the real-life setting for the ITV drama Broadchurch. Britain’s Jurassic Coast was battered by Storm Kathleen at the weekend
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Message in a Bottle, a dance theatre production choreographed by Kate Prince and set to the music of Sting, will be shown in UK cinemas from May 30. It is the first time Sadler’s Wells has filmed one of its works for cinematic release
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Kevin Jones has recreated, in miniature, the sitting room of Del Boy Trotter’s home in Only Fools and Horses. Jones, of Cramlington, Northumberland, spent about a month modelling his take on the flat at Nelson Mandela House, Peckham
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A Kashmiri girl displays her henna-painted hands, decorated for Eid al-Fitr, in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir. The Islamic holiday marks the end of Ramadan and will be celebrated for three days this week
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Zendaya sports a customised dress and heels, both by Loewe, to a photo call in Rome to promote her new film. In Challengers, she plays a former tennis prodigy turned coach
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A vortex ring of glowing gas rises hundreds of metres above Mount Etna. The volcano on Sicily is active once more and for days has put on a show with the rare phenomenon
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Girls dressed as the living goddess Kumari take part in a community music festival in Bhaktapur, Nepal
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A traditional dance is performed at the Nyatapola temple in Bhaktapur, Nepal, in the run up to the country’s new year festival. Biska Jatra is celebrated in the hope of a good harvest and protection from natural calamities
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Halle Berry said she was “here for the puffball jewellery” in an Instagram post as she was nuzzled by a camel
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Roman Catholics participate in a Eucharist procession in Maracaibo, Venezuela
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Nearly 3.5 million tulips were planted in Emirgan Grove, Istanbul, this year. The park, in the Turkish city’s Sariyer district, is hosting a festival devoted to the flower
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