The UK's week in pictures: Cop26, the northern lights, and Diwali

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

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  Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson waits to greet leaders as they arrive to attend the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland on November 1, 2021. - COP26, running from October 31 to November 12 in Glasgow will be the biggest climate conference since the 2015 Paris summit and is seen as crucial in setting worldwide emission targets to slow global warming, as well as firming up other key commitments. (Photo by Christopher Furlong / POOL / AFP)

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  Climate activists from the Ocean Rebellion group on Tuesday demonstrated outside the INEOS refinery and petrochemicals centre plant in Grangemouth, Scotland. AFP

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  Little Amal, a 3.5-metre-tall puppet – representing a young Syrian refugee child – who has spent the past three months walking 8,000 kilometres, played football with children at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium on Wednesday. Getty Images

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  On Wednesday a new outdoor remembrance display at Hampton Court Palace was unveiled. It included 25 newly commissioned near-life-sized silhouettes of First World War Indian soldiers alongside 100 British 'Tommies'. AP Photo

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  Indigenous leaders marched from Glasgow Green Park to the Cop26 venue in Glasgow on Wednesday to announce their arrival at the summit. PA

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  In the early hours of Thursday morning the Northern Lights provided a spectacular display over Derwentwater, near Keswick in the Lake District. PA

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  Christmas began to kick into gear on Thursday, with Hamleys toy shop unveiling its Christmas window displays in London. Getty Images

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  Autumn colours on Derwent island, in the Lake District, on Thursday. PA

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  People celebrate Diwali along the golden mile in Leicester on Thursday evening. PA

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  On Friday thousands of demonstrators made their way through Glasgow for the Fridays For Future march, on day six of the Cop26 Summit. Getty Images

This week, heads of state and thousands of delegates came to Glasgow to attend the Cop26 climate summit, there was a rare glimpse of the northern lights in the Lake District and Diwali celebrations took place across the country.