Cutty Sark in dock, Greenwich, London

The Cutty Sark is a clipper ship. Built in 1869, she served as a merchant vessel (the last clipper to be built for that purpose), and then as a training ship until being put on public display in 1954.

The ship is named after the cutty sark, Scottish for a short chemise or undergarment. This was the nickname of the fictional character Nannie (also the name of the ship's figurehead) in Robert Burns' 1791 comic poem Tam o' Shanter. She was wearing a linen cutty sark that she had been given as a child, therefore it was far too small for her. The erotic sight of her dancing in such a short undergarment caused Tam to cry out "Weel done, Cutty-sark".

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This Manchester Mega Photo is collage of about 300 images by Aidan O'Rourke taken from the top of Manchester's Beetham Tower.

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, and was mostly part of Lancashire, with areas south of the River Mersey being in Cheshire.

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The third Rothschild giraffe calf to be born at Woburn Safari Park over the past eight months enjoys some attention from its mother in the Bedfordshire sunshine.

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The world's oldest complete steamship SS Robin passes under the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at Thurrock, Essex, as it is towed by a tug from West India Dock, Canary Wharf to Lowestoft where the ship is to undergo a six-month £2m restoration.

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Crowds get into the party spirit on the opening day of the Glastonbury music festival.

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A steam car built by a team in Hampshire was unveiled on Wednesday.

They are hoping the vehicle will beat the steam powered speed record of 128mph (206kmph) set in 1906.

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The wellies remain relatively clean as the Glastonbury Festival enters its final day with predictions of sunshine and showers.

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Prince Charles has converted his 38-year-old Aston Martin to run on bio-ethanol made from English wine

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A couple kisses at dawn in a litter-strewn field at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset

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Crows cool down in a public padddling pool on Clapham Common, London.

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Bails have gone, that's out!

It's amazing what you can catch with a camera when it's shooting six and a half frames a second ;)

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Here's the next photo in the 6.5 a second burst in case you missed which stump was hit ;)

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An RAF Typhoon fighter jet sits alongside a Battle of Britain Spitfire at RAF Conningsby in Lincolnshire.

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Elliott, a marmoset who was abandoned by his mother and is now being hand reared, cuddles his favourite toy monkey at Knowsley Safari Park in Merseyside, North West England.

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Night-swimming by the light of a full moon on the River Thames is an unforgettable way to experience England’s best known waterway.

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Stained orange by Dartmoor’s peaty soil the River Dart at Spitchwick Common in Devon is a popular swimming and jumping spot for families.

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Molly the bulldog feels the heat as she walks through Middlesbrough, NE England, where temperatures were up to 21C.

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Farmer Tom Pearcy cut this maze based on the Statue of Liberty through a field of maize in Yorkshire. It is 10 times the size of the original in New York.

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Members of the Household Cavalry, the Life Guards regiment, gallop on horseback in the surf along Holkham Beach, Holkham, Norfolk.

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One of three rare Grevy's Zebra foals stands alongside its mother at Woburn Safari Park, Woburn, Bedfordshire.

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