Pictures of the day

• 1/30 Fighting the cold snap

  Waitrose partner Paul Hewitt tends to one of hundreds of candles which were lit in the vineyard of Waitrose's Leckford Estate farm in Hampshire to protect the grape vines from the late spring frost, as the cold snap continues. The candles are used to create air movement and stop the frost from taking hold around the vines

  Andrew Matthews/PA

• 2/30 Hanging around

  One of The Flying Frenchies, stars of the new film The Free Man, rehearses at BBC Broadcasting House

  Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images

• 3/30 Stroke

  A stand-up-board rider paddles on the Emmarencia Dam as mist rises off the water in Johannesburg, South Africa

  Kim Ludbrook/EPA

• 4/30 You'd have to be a bit La La

  Dancers from Bandaloop aerial dance troupe perform to a medley of songs and dances from the movie La La Land off the side of Los Angeles City Hall, during La La Land Day festivities

  Reed Saxon/AP

• 5/30 London remembers the ANZACs

  The shadow of a soldier falls on the Australian War Memorial during an Anzac Day dawn service at the Australian War Memorial at Hyde Park Corner

  Dominic Lipinski/PA

• 6/30 Haring around London on the morning commute

  Three white rabbits posed for selfies with commuters at London Waterloo and on the Underground to promote Alice's Adventures Underground. The Olivier nominated show opens tonight at The Vaults and runs until 23 September 2017

• 7/30 Golden heroes

  Olympians Jason and Laura Kenny after they received their CBEs for services to cycling from Princess Anne during an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace

  John Stillwell/PA

• 8/30 Protest the penguins

  On World Penguin Day, scientists demanded more protection for the Antarctic wilderness to help halt species decline

  AFP/Getty Images

• 9/30 A face only a mother could love

  Clyde waits to be judged during the 38th annual Drake Relays Beautiful Bulldog Contest in Des Moines, Iowa. The pageant kicks off the Drake Relays festivities at Drake University where a bulldog is the mascot

  Charlie Neibergall/AP

• 10/30 Charles in charge

  The Prince of Wales, known as the Duke of Rothesay while in Scotland, drives the steam train "Salmon" during his visit to the Royal Deeside Railway in Banchory

  Andrew Milligan/PA

• 11/30 You're kidding me

  Sgt Daniel Fitzpatrick of the Belfast Police Department in Belfast, Maine drives around with two lost goats in his police car looking for their owner

  Sgt. Daniel P. Fitzpatrick II/Belfast Police Department via AP

• 12/30 Gleaming spire

  The sun reflects off St George Wharf Tower, also known as the Vauxhall Tower in London. The capital is set to be gripped by a cold snap as temperatures plunge towards freezing, the Met Office has warned

  Jeremy Selwyn

• 13/30 Protest

  A demonstrator returns a canister of tear gas towards security forces during anti-government protests in Caracas, Venezuela

  Fernando Llano/AP

• 14/30 Just Bazaar

  US model Stephanie Seymour's photograph is projected onto the Empire State Building's north facade to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Harper's Bazaar Magazine in New York

  Jason Szenes/EPA

• 15/30 Mirror balls

  Two visitors walk between three spheres of the art installation '24 Hours in Singapore' by Baet Yeok Kuan, an interactive audio sculpture near the city's Asian Civilisations Museum. The arrangement of a total five spheres made of stainless steel is not only offering unique views when looking at them from various angles, they also play audio recordings of the daily life in Singapore

  EPA / Wallace Woon

• 16/30 I think we're going to need a bigger boat

  Residents view the first iceberg of the season as it passes the South Shore, also known as "Iceberg Alley", near Ferryland Newfoundland, Canada

  Jody Martin/Reuters

• 17/30 Colourful life

  A woman poses for a photographer in a buttercup flower field near Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak in southern Israel

  Amir Cohen/Reuters

• 18/30 Stepping into history

  Prime Minister Theresa May as she stepped out of 10 Downing Street to declare she wanted a snap General Election to be held on June 8

  Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

• 19/30 'Anyone seen my husband?'

  First lady Melania Trump, accompanied by the Easter Bunny, speaks from the Truman Balcony during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the Presidential abode

  Carolyn Kaster/AP

• 20/30 Horse of the Rising Sun

  The sun is caught just above a horse statue at Newmarket Racecourse ahead of day one of the bet365 Craven Meeting

  John Walton/PA

• 21/30 Maunday Thursday

  The Queen and Prince Philip at the Royal Maundy Service at Leicester Cathedral. The Maundy Service happens each year on Thursday before Easter Sunday where the queen distributes Maundy coins according to the number of years she has lived

  Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

• 22/30 Easter treat. Simples

  Meerkats are given an Easter treat at London Zoo

  Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

• 23/30 This is not going to end well

  A gaucho is thrown of a wild horse during the Criolla del Prado rodeo in Montevideo, Uruguay

  Matilde CampodonicoAP

• 24/30 Cutty Spark

  A firework display over the Cutty Sark marks the start of Sail Royal Greenwich, during which a number of tall ships will visit London

  Victoria Jones/PA

• 25/30 Myanmar Calling

  A seven-year-old Myanmar punk (left) wearing a mohawk hairstyle sits in Mahabandoola park during a punk gathering ahead of the Thingyan water festival in Yangon, Myanmar

  Lyn Bo Bo/EPA

• 26/30 Who's that coming to the rescue?

  Peter Capaldi, in costume as Doctor Who, and Pearl Mackie as his new companion Bill Potts, pose with a 3D alien landscape pavement painting, to celebrate the new TV series on the Southbank in London

  Yui Mok/PA

• 27/30 Support from the Yellow Wall

  Fans hold posters 'You'll never walk alone' as Borussia Dortmund player Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang leaves the side's training ground the after an explosion injured one of his team-mates and a police officer

  Marius Becker/dpa via AP

• 28/30 Well of Death

  A stuntman rides a motorcycle inside the "Well of Death" attraction during a fair in Bhaktapur, Nepal

  Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

• 29/30 Pink Un

  April's full moon, also known as a 'Pink Moon', is seen through a cherry blossom tree in Dubli

  PA

• 30/30 How do you do?

  The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh with an elephant at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, where they officially opened the zoo's new Centre for Elephant Care

  Chris Radburn/PA