Sunset at the GladeSunset at the Glade during the Glastonbury festival in JunePhotograph: Jill Mead The Guardian

With his characteristic flair for terrible media opportunities Sunak travels to Manchester to announce the cancellation of HS2

this is a brilliantly observed candid shot

Rising interest rates have been a recurring story this year and much of the media discourse seemed to focus on the negative impacts this was having for those with unfixed mortgages

The brash young American boxer told reporters it would take only five rounds to finish off Britain’s Henry Cooper in their first contest in 1963 – as displayed in this memorable image by Gerry Cranham

But that’s a distraction

heads bowed

This dramatic photograph

He walked briskly towards the cow – but not too briskly so that he wouldn’t spook her or the other cattle nearby – and managed to shoot just two frames before she moved away

In the 13th century

in a state of shock

but this image is an uplifting memory from that heartbreaking summer

Gary Speed