News in Pictures – 17 March 2021 By Louise Gowans March 17 2021, 4:00pm March 17 2021, 4:00pm Share News in Pictures – 17 March 2021 Share via Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Messenger Email Post link https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/uk-world/2051206/news-in-pictures-17-march-2021/ Copy Link 18-month-old Grace Wang dressed up to celebrate St Patrick's Day on O'Connell Street in Dublin. Picture date: Wednesday March 17, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story IRISH StPatricks. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire Our picture editors bring you the best breaking news images of the day. Criminal barrister Naz Hussain QC outside the Old Bailey, London. Mr Hussain is the owner of Columbo, the Persian Blue cat which recently caused a Twitter storm when he gate crashed a virtual court hearing. Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire Kimberley Seaward prepares a forge, originally built in 1860 in Watford, ahead of re-opening after lockdown of Chiltern Open Air Museum in Chalfont St Giles. Steve Parsons/PA Wire A cleaner uses a fogging machine to clean a train carriage during the night, as a team of 360 specialists work around-the-clock to deliver London North Eastern Railway’s (LNER) ‘Covid Secure’ enhanced cleaning pledge. Danny Lawson/PA Wire Zebras are fed at Blair Drummond Safari Park, near Stirling as the park prepares to reopen on Saturday. Andrew Milligan/PA Wire 18-month-old Grace Wang dressed up to celebrate St Patrick’s Day on O’Connell Street in Dublin. Brian Lawless/PA Wire Punch & Judy puppets Punch and Prime Minister Boris Johnson play tug-of-war with a slapstick during a rehearsal performance by Professor Paul Wheeler. Ben Birchall/PA Wire Security fencing is installed round a Banksy artwork which was painted on the side of the former prison in Reading after it was defaced. Steve Parsons/PA Wire Irish Guards’ new mascot, Irish Wolfhound Turlough Mor with his handler Drummer Adam Walsh at Wellington Barracks, London, before being presented with his shamrock ahead of the Regiment’s own private St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Ian West/PA Wire