The UK's week in pictures: Richard Ratcliffe, the Budget, and Assange protests

'The National' selects the best pictures from around the UK over the past week

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  On Monday outside the Foreign Office in London, Richard Ratcliffe, husband of British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, went on hunger strike for the second time in two years. PA

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  The Edinburgh Garden of Remembrance in Scotland opened on Monday, marking the start of the remembrance period. PA

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  Me and my shadow ... horses in a field in Swillington, West Yorkshire, on Monday afternoon. PA

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  Animal Rebellion activists on Tuesday climbed the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs building in London to demand an end to subsidies for meat and dairy farming in a protest against climate change. Reuters

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  On Tuesday, 'Little Amal', the 3.5 metre puppet representing a migrant Syrian girl, reached Oxford on the latest leg of her 8,000km journey across Europe. Getty Images

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  Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak delivered his Autumn Budget on Wednesday morning. PA

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  Also on Wednesday, supporters of Julian Assange hung yellow ribbons on the railings of the Royal Courts of Justice in London during an appeal hearing for his extradition to the United States. Getty Images

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  On Thursday, Sir David Amess's French bulldog Vivienne was announced as the winner of the Westminster Dog of the Year competition. PA

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  The 'RRS Sir David Attenborough' docked in Greenwich, London, on Thursday. The UK's most advanced polar research ship is in London to mark the start of the Cop26 climate summit. PA

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  On Friday a light projection by artist Luke Jerram and commissioned by Good Energy appeared on the UK's first wind farm at Delabole in Cornwall, to celebrate its 30th anniversary with a message aimed at world leaders ahead of Cop26. PA

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  On Friday morning the entrance of 10 Downing Street was decorated with green lights ahead of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. AP Photo

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  Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined a protest outside the headquarters of Standard Chartered in London on Friday afternoon. Climate protesters around the world are demanding that the global financial system stops its financing of fossil fuel companies. Getty Images

This week, Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, began a hunger strike in protest at the UK government’s failure to secure her return from Iran, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak delivered his autumn Budget, and protesters gathered at London's High Court as the US launched an appeal against the decision that Julian Assange should not be sent to the US.