The UK's week in pictures: Boris and Biden, the energy crisis and the Chelsea Flower Show

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

On Monday, Battersea Power Station and Nine Elms London underground stations were unveiled. It was the first major expansion of the Tube since the Jubilee Line stretched eastwards in 1999. AFP

Also on Monday, the Chelsea Flower Show, hit by pandemic closures that forced events to go online last year, opened its first autumnal show. AP Photo

On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden hosted UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the White House to discuss climate change, the Afghanistan withdrawal and the Pacific. PA

A view of the CF Industries fertiliser plant in Stockton-on-Tees. The plant, which produces CO2 as a by-product, shut on Tuesday as a result of the sudden hike in wholesale gas prices. AFP

On Tuesday, the Duchess of Cambridge boarded a boat in the Lake District to hear the moving stories of Holocaust survivors who were sent to the British beauty spot 75 years ago to recuperate from the horrors of the Nazi regime. AFP

On Wednesday, Georgie Cottle and David Charles, from Thighs of Steel, set a Guinness World Record for the largest GPS drawing by bicycle after they completed a challenge to spell out 'refugees welcome' using a tracking app. PA

Also on Wednesday, PC Lee Judge was pictured with Atla the dog, as Police Scotland's dog unit trained ahead of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. PA

On Thursday, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband Richard and daughter Gabriella marked Nazanin's 2,000th day in detention. PA

Also on Thursday, Dr Susannah Maidment displayed a specimen of the oldest ankylosaur ever discovered and the first from the African continent at the Natural History Museum in London. The fossil is believed to be at least 20 million years older than any species found before. PA

The first customers on Friday to enter the Apple Store in Regent Street, central London, received a round of applause as the new Apple iPhone 13 went on sale in the UK. PA

This week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met US President Joe Biden in Washington, the CF Industries fertiliser plant shut down amid the ongoing energy crisis and the first ever autumn Chelsea Flower Show took place.