Pictures of the day

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  Umbrellas are placed during a photo call at the Beatles statue on Liverpool's waterfront to launch Sgt Pepper at 50: Heading For Home, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album

  Peter Byrne/PA

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  Maintenance engineers on the 200th anniversary of the rollercoaster perform cleaning and service duties 205ft atop of Thorpe Park Resort's ride Stealth, ahead of the park's reopening

  David Parry/PA

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  People walk through heavy snow in Allendale, Northumberland

  Owen Humphreys/PA

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  The Prince of Wales during a visit to The Courtyard, a restored farmstead in the Yorkshire Dales that is home to local businesses including a brasserie, wine shop, cheesemonger, furniture makers, garden shop, gallery and clothing shop

  Nigel Roddis/PA

• 5/30 Royal pardon

  Prince Harry meets school children during a visit to Hamilton College in Leicester, England

  Chris Jackson/Getty Images

• 6/30 Spring's here

  Trees in blossom in Northumberland Place, London

  Jeremy Selwyn

• 7/30 Jump to it

  Contestants perform during the annual Ingoma traditional Zulu dance competition in Durban, South Africa

  Rogan Ward/Reuters

• 8/30 No, Cousin Itt has not taken to modelling

  A model displays a creation by Vietnam's Nguyen Cong Tri during the 2017 Autumn/Winter Collection at the Tokyo Fashion Week

  Shizuo Kambayashi/AP

• 9/30 Iconic tribute for an iconic singer

  Dame Vera Lynn's portrait was projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover to celebrate her 100th birthday and release of her new album

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• 10/30 Looking beautiful tonight, London

  NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough shot this incredible picture of London from space. Kimbrough who has been orbiting the planet since October 2016 took this image from the International Space Station

  @astro_kimbroug

• 11/30 Guiding trunk

  A new born male elephant-calf walks with his mother and another herd member as it appears in their enclosure in the Cologne Zoo, Germany

  Friedmann Vogel/EPA

• 12/30 President feels the heat

  A ninot representing US President Donald Trump burns on the last night of the Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain. Fallas are gigantic structures made of cardboard portraying current events and personalities in which individual figures or ninots are placed. They are burnt as a tribute to St Joseph, patron saint of the carpenters' guild

  Jose Jordon/AFP/Getty Images

• 13/30 An Irish jig? Well my husband is very good at dancing

  The Duchess of Cambridge stands with a pint of Guinness in her hand as she meets soldiers of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards in their canteen following their St Patrick's Day parade at Cavalry Barracks

• 14/30 Happy hippos

  Zoo-goers in Australia were introduced to a rare baby pygmy hippo, the first of its kind born at Taronga Zoo in seven years

  Paul Fahy/AFP/Getty Images

• 15/30 Skipping to work

  Irish dancers were at Tottenham Court Road station as Tourism Ireland started to celebrate St Patrick's Day a day early

  David Parry/PA

• 16/30 Someone told me you were painting a Zebra crossing

  Lines are painted in the drive-through animal reserve at at Blair Drummond Safari Park by line marker Steven Woods. Staff at the park near Stirling have been carrying out final checks and maintenance ahead of opening for the season on Saturday

  Andrew Milligan/PA

• 17/30 Rolling his sleeves up

  Exhibition curator Dr Matt Lodder in front of one hundred silicone arms on display at the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall, part of the exhibition Tattoo: British Tattoo Art Revealed

  Ben Birchall/PA

• 18/30 On board with protests

  A person on a skateboard jumps in front of a fire during a demonstration against a pension reform proposed by Brazilian President Michel Temer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Antonio Lacerda/EPA

• 19/30 Day for the ladies

  Female racegoers pose for photographers during Ladies Day of the 2017 Cheltenham Festival

  David Davies/PA

• 20/30 Somehow life still goes on

  Mohammad Mohiedine Anis, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom listening to music on his vinyl player in Aleppo's formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighbourhood

  Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images

• 21/30 Come Fly With Me

  David Walliams checks-in British Airways passengers at Heathrow T5 as part of the airlines Red Nose Day campaign, which launches today. Walliams was joined by Emma Bunton and Tom Daley who also dressed as British Airways staff to surprise customers for Red Nose Day

  Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

• 22/30 Celebrating Amy

  Street artist Pegasus walks past his art at an exhibition celebrating the life of musician Amy Winehouse at the Jewish Museum in Camden

  Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

• 23/30 Our city is just stunning at times

  A beautiful sunset shot from Tower Bridge, looking at the City Hall and The Shard

  @mattiabicchi

• 24/30 Putting his money where his mouth is

  A racegoer in a suit with a £50 note pattern is seen at Cheltenham Festival

  Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

• 25/30 Now where did I park the car?

  Volkswagen's cars are seen at the storage facility auto tower at the company headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany

  Andersen Odd/AFP/Getty Images

• 26/30 Good Times

  While Storm Stella brought havoc on the East Coast of the US, two men took advantage of the snow to play golf with a tennis ball Times Square

  Mark Lennihan/AP

• 27/30 A visitor from Australia

  Gold Coast Commonwealth Games mascot Borobi arrives on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace ahead of the launch of The Queen's Baton Relay for the XXI Commonwealth Games being held on the Gold Coast in 2018 at Buckingham Palace

  John Stillwell/WPA Pool/Getty Images

• 28/30 At least it is not a turtle neck

  'Prince Peep', a rooster native to Malaysia, wears a sweater at Fuller Village retirement home in Milton, Massachusetts. The sweater was one of many knitted by a group of women in the retirement home for chickens in a neighboring non-profit education programme

  Steven Senne/AP

• 29/30 Bet you didn't expect this

  Actors in prosthetic make-up portraying Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump arrived in London on horseback this morning as bookmaker Paddy Power launches a new Cheltenham-Political betting market ahead of the start of the racing festival

  David Parry/ PA

• 30/30 Green doesn't go with my eyes

  A girl reacts as coloured water is thrown on her face while celebrating Holi, the Festival of Colours in Mumbai, India

  Shailesh Andrade/Reuters