The Guardian's chief photographer Ken Mears takes a look back at some of his favourite pictures of the week.

 

The town hall in Walthamstow shows a single light, reminiscent of a lighthouse, to mark 100 years since the start of Britain's involvement in the First World War

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Team Kinetix parkour display at the Toot Hill Country Show, Bridge Farm, Stanford Rivers. A well captured shot of the performer in action

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Members of the Woodhouse Players in costume chased a burglar down Leytonstone High Road after he was found rummaging through their bags in the dressing room of the Welsh Church Hall. A great reconstructed picture of the thespian heroes

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Judith Couchman's garden wall was knocked down by a low flying air ambulance in Waltham Abbey

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A lovely candlelit shot of people at the First World War commemorations in Chingford

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