Images Dated 12th December 2014

HMS Defender Returning to Portsmouth

HMS Defender returning home to Portsmouth after her deployment to the Middle East in 2014.
The Type 45 destroyer returned to the UK after more than six months deployed on high intensity operations in the Northern Gulf.
The ship has spent part of her deployment supporting the US-led Carrier Task Group and her F18s conducting strikes in the fight against ISIL.
Hundreds of friends and family welcomed the ship back home, joined by Portsmouth Military Wives Choir and the Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines Portsmouth

USA, New York State, New York City

USA, New York, Manhattan, advertsement for a social soup experiment by Hearth Restaurant in the 14th Street Passage on the High Line linear park on an elevated disused railroad spur called the West Side Line

© Paul Seheult / Eye Ubiquitous

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Herd of Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stags in clearing in snow covered pine forest

Herd of Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stags in clearing in snow covered pine forest, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, December

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