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  1. Aerial view of the fire, showing rows of houses with an industrial site on fire immediately behind. A big plume of smoke dominates the photo, with some flames visible in a building on the right

  2. A black and white image of a smiling woman with shoulder-length hair wearing a leather jacket and necklace

  3. A team of seven medical staff in a hospital room. Five wear pink medical scrubs while the two on the right wear dark blue scrubs. They all smile at the camera and wear medical caps.

  4. Benjamin Zephaniah stands with his left hand held up slightly in the middle of a wooded area.

  5. A gate on a road with green hedges on either side and a police car parked on the other side of the entrance. A police officer in a high-vis jacket and black hat can be seen at the entrance near a man with his back to us wearing a brown jacket and green trousers.

  6. A woman in a hat and sunglasses, grey hoodie and blue jeans carrying black bin bags of rubbish. She is stood infront of a bin lorry with various people loading it with rubbish

  7. A National Highways road traffic officer stands next to a vehicle. He is wearing a high-vis orange and yellow jacket with a mobile phone and body-worn camera.

  8. Dennis Taylor holding the trophy above his head in 1985. He is wearing glasses and a black bow tie and smiling, looking at the camera.

  9. Tania and Charlotte are standing together in front of a view of blue water with green hills covered in trees, plants and grass. There is a house on a cliff in the background. They are both smiling at the camera, and both have long brown hair in two braids, and are wearing white tops.

  10. Piles of uncollected waste on the side of road alongside cars.

  11. Police officers with batons and shields try to protect themselves from flares as disorder breaks out in street at night.

  12. A busy main road with shops and pubs either side. A service station board is pictured on the right, alongside cars queuing for traffic.

  13. A hand holding a syringe with a small amount of clear liquid. The needle is held by a blue plastic surround, and the image is taken against a black background.

  14. A bin worker putting a bin bag into an orange bin lorry. He is wearing red gloves, a green hat and an orange reflective jacket with Birmingham City Council written on the back of it. The BBC Verify logo appears in the top left corner of the image. Image taken in Birmingham on 11 April

  15. A lorry with a scoop attached is gathering up rubbish littering a pavement. Waste looks to have spilled out of bin bags and is scattered along a grass verge.

  16. A gate on a road with green hedges on either side and a police car parked on the other side of the entrance. A police officer in a high-vis jacket and black hat can be seen at the entrance near a man with his back to us wearing a brown jacket and green trousers.

  17. A man with short white hair and glasses is wearing a navy blue suit jacket over a white shirt with an open collar. He is standing with his hands clasped in front of a set of glass doors under a sign reading "Wolverhampton Bus Station".

  18. Emergency service personnel and other people gather next to a fairground ride. A section of the ride, where people sit, appears to have crashed into a post on the right.

  19. A document showing the proposed public square. The central part of the image is mainly brown, with some green and yellow sections inside it. Around that are buildings and roads in white and grey.

  20. Two men wearing coats, with one wearing blue gloves, playing saxophones.

  21. A man wearing a grey sweater and a black coat stands in a park and looks into the camera. Trees, bushes and a river can be seen in the background behind him.

  22. A gate on a road with green hedges on either side and a police car parked on the other side of the entrance. A police officer in a high-vis jacket and black hat can be seen at the entrance near a man with his back to us wearing a brown jacket and green trousers.

  23. A large pile of black bin bags, with a few cardboard boxes and other bits of rubbish interspersed. The pile appears to be partly on the pavement and partly on the road.

  24. Residents hand rubbish to refuse workers at a Mobile Household Waste Centre in Senneleys Park on 8 April. One woman in a long beige cardigan is handing over two black bin bags and another in a pink coat is walking up with bags to deliver.