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In Pictures: Review of the year 2018

A selection box of the year’s best images.

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From snow to sunshine and a series of royal celebrations, here’s a selection of the best pictures of the year from the Press Association’s archive.

JANUARY

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Tom Cruise runs along Blackfriars Bridge in London, during filming for Mission: Impossible Fallout (Victoria Jones/PA)
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Elizabeth Lewin, 10, in a snow tunnel near Newby Head Farm in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace after they announced their engagement (Jonathan Brady/PA)
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The blue moon rising over Hull (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Keeper Zu Zanna counts penguins during the annual stocktake at ZSL London Zoo (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
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Players during the annual Royal Shrovetide football match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, which takes place over two eight-hour periods, on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday with the goals three miles apart (Aaron Chown/PA)
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Soldiers from the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards line up to be inspected at Victoria Barracks in Windsor, Berkshire, in preparation for Trooping the Colour (Steve Parsons/PA)
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Victor the polar bear enjoys the snow at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster, South Yorkshire (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Giant waves crash over Seaham lighthouse near Durham (Owen Humphreys/PA)
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle talk to sisters Jean Dickinson and Irene Gould on a walkabout during a visit to Millennium Point in Birmingham, part of the regional tours the couple undertook in the run-up to their May wedding (Victoria Jones/PA)
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Emma Thompson takes part in an anti-fracking walk and silent protest at the Cuadrilla site in Preston New Road, Preston (Peter Byrne/PA)

APRIL

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The Prince of Wales is given a grass skirt to wear prior to receiving a chiefly title during his visit to the South Pacific island of Vanuatu (Steve Parsons/PA)
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Forrest the Humboldt penguin enjoys a cold shower at Blair Drummond Safari Park near Stirling (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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A full moon, known as a Pink Moon in the month of April, rises behind the bronze sculpture of an Arctic Tern on the sea front at North Berwick in East Lothian (Jane Barlow/PA)
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Meghan Markle walks down the aisle of St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle for her wedding to Prince Harry (Danny Lawson/PA)
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The new Duke and Duchess of Sussex ride in an Ascot Landau along the Long Walk in Windsor after their wedding (Yui Mok/PA)
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Students from the University of St Andrews take part in the traditional May Day Dip on the East Sands. Plunging into the freezing North Sea at dawn on the first of May is said to bring good luck in exams (Jane Barlow/PA)
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Members of 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards ahead of the Trooping the Colour ceremony at Horse Guards Parade, as the Queen celebrated her official birthday (Victoria Jones/PA)
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The Duchess of Sussex and the Queen at the opening of the new Mersey Gateway Bridge in Widnes, Cheshire (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Firefighters tackle a blaze at the Glasgow School of Art in the historic Mackintosh Building (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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England fans in Nizhny Novgorod ahead of their match against Panama during the World Cup in Russia (Aaron Chown/PA)

JULY

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The ‘Baby Trump’ balloon flies over central London as part of protests against the visit of US President Donald Trump to the UK (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
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‘Stop Trump’ demonstrators march through London (Yui Mok/PA)
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Achilles, a male Sumatran tiger, has a drink in the warm weather as he made his public debut at Howletts Wild Animal Park, near Canterbury in Kent (Gareth Fuller/PA)

AUGUST

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The Queen talks to Pony Major Mark Wilkinson with regimental mascot Cruachan IV, alongside Officer Commanding Major Johnny Thompson, as she inspected Balaclava Company, 5 Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland at the gates at Balmoral (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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Boris Johnson brings tea for the press outside his house in Thame (Aaron Chown/PA)
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Flames from a major blaze which broke out at the Primark store in Belfast city centre (Liam McBurney/PA)

SEPTEMBER

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Staff prepare a Superman costume worn by Christopher Reeve in the 1978 film outside the Prop Store film memorabilia exhibition at the BFI IMAX at Waterloo (Victoria Jones/PA)
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The Duchess of Sussex welcomes the women behind a cookbook she has championed to Kensington Palace (Ben Stansall/PA)

OCTOBER

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Princess Eugenie arrives for her wedding to Jack Brooksbank at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle (Yui Mok/PA)
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Princess Eugenie and her new husband Jack Brooksbank kiss as they leave St George’s Chapel (Yui Mok/PA)
Royal tour of New Zealand – Day Three
The Duchess of Sussex takes part in a welly wanging contest in New Zealand (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
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The moon rises over the illuminated ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Piper Louise Marshall plays Battle’s O’er, the traditional Scottish lament played at the end of battle, at dawn alongside the Forth Bridge at North Queensferry on the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice which marked the end of the First World War (Jane Barlow/PA)
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The unveiling of artist Rob Heard’s Shrouds of the Somme installation, honouring the dead of the First World War, at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
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The gilded statue of Victory, holding a laurel wreath, on top of the central dome of the Bank of Scotland headquarters in Edinburgh (Jane Barlow/PA)
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Members of the Anstruther Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) form a Christmas tree shape as they get together ahead of the festive period for practice drills and exercises at the Lifeboat Station in Anstruther, Fife (Jane Barlow/PA)
Downing Street Christmas tree
Prime Minster Theresa May switches on the Christmas tree lights in Downing Street (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
Christmas lights
The home of David Brown in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, which is illuminated with over 6,000 Christmas lights. Money raised by visitors to the house is donated to Marie Curie Cancer Care in memory of his late wife Anne (Jane Barlow/PA)
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