STRONG news stories dominate the Week in Pictures.

From an animal sprinting across a road as the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, burns in Plumas National Forest, to people placing messages of support on top of offensive wording on the mural of England player Marcus Rashford on the wall of the Coffee House Cafe on Copson Street, Withington, which appeared vandalised the morning after the England football team lost the UEFA Euro 2021 final.

The Prince of Wales during a visit to the Great Yorkshire Show at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and people wearing masks ahead of England's 'Freedom Day' on Monday, July 19.

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