England's year in pictures: Part One

A whale swam up the River Thames in January - as far as the Houses of Parliament. But the northern bottle-nosed whale died as rescuers tried to move her to deeper water.

Large parts of the South East were hit by unseasonably late snow on 10 April, two weeks after the start of spring. Horses in a field near Tunbridge Wells found themselves in the cold.

Paddington Bear joined commuters at his namesake station on his way to an event at Buckingham Palace. Some passengers seemed too busy to notice a bear was sharing their platform.

Three Egyptian tortoises were hatched at Chester Zoo in May. Each of them were smaller than a raspberry. The breed is critically endangered in the wild.

A rocket crashing into a London street would probably attract attention at any time. But this one was only placed there for an outdoor theatre production called the Sultan's Elephant.

World Cup fever gripped England for a while during June, with even baboons at Knowsley Safari Park in Merseyside getting in on the act after stealing flags from visitors' cars.

Nelson's Column had its first major clean-up for 20 years, with the statue scrubbed and pigeon-proofed and lightning damage on its arm repaired. The £420,000 work took four months.

Hot weather in August saw fast-growing duck weed turn a six mile stretch of east London's canals green. This picture shows a boat making its way through green water at Limehouse Cut.

Cattle grazing in the floodplain at Cuckmere Valley downstream from Litlington, near Eastbourne in East Sussex, during August.

Cyclists racing in the Tour of Britain catch the eye of a man painting his house in the village of Sheriffhales near Telford on 1 September.

Birds fly around Tynemouth Priory near Newcastle during a spectacular sunrise on 25 October.

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