HERE are some of the best pictures of the week from around the UK and world.
From a disused sign during a tour at the Piccadilly Circus disused tube station in London as London Transport Museum are re-starting in-person Hidden London tours of disused tube stations for the first time since the pandemic, to workers surrounding the base of a crane in the centre of the circular reinforced concrete and steel home of a reactor at Nuclear Island 1, at Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant near Bridgwater in Somerset, as work on the project reaches the five year anniversary.
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