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  1. A woman with curly hair stands in front of a board smiling into the camera.

  2. Cars are parked outside houses in the cul de sac and on side of the road.

  3. The street has cars parked along it on either side in front of business premises

  4. An aerial shot Highfields Waste Disposal Site showing dirt and green fields surrounding the site.

  5. Dozens of people gather to break their fast together with a meal in the stand of a football stadium.

  6. Houses can be seen on either side of the cul de sac with cars parked on drives and on the street

  7. Five young men in black tracksuits stand at a bus stop

  8. Kabaddi match in India in 2024. One player is jumping while two opposing players reach towards him. There is a referee in the background and audience members are sitting and standing. The match is illuminated by bright lights.

  9. An artist's impression of a railway line and platform. There are two people standing on the platform on the right side of the line.

  10. Reagan smiling in hospital.

  11. A close-up of a light brown and white duck, which has a plastic six-pack beer holder around its neck.

  12. A cat rummages through furniture and uncollected refuse bags. Rubbish is piling high and there are also some fly-tipped pieces of rubbish.

  13. Birmingham Children's Hospital, a 19th Century brick building with ornamental architecture. There are steps leading to the front and there is a no entry sign to traffic. A person is walking on the pavement.

  14. Cylinders of soil with drug plants growing out of it are lined up inside a room with brick walls.

  15. Two baby wolverines with light grey fur nestle against the belly of their larger, dark-furred mother, which has an arm around one of the infants. They lie against a wooden fence, and there is a log in the foreground

  16. A large brown and beige building with dozens of windows. Cars and a zebra crossing can be seen in front.

  17. Brenda Catterall standing in her garden. She is an elderly woman and has white hair. She is wearing a bright, purple top. There is a patio with a chair and table on it and trees and a lawn are in the background.

  18. A road with terraced houses and parked cars on either side. The cars range in colour from white to red to black and there is also a white van in among them. The homes are made of brick with bay windows and small front gardens with brick walls at the front.

  19. Hollyfield Road in Sutton Coldfield, a residential area with houses on both sides of the road, wide pavements and grass verges. There are parked cars and lampposts and several trees.

  20. Two bouquets of flowers attached to a grey lamppost on a residential street. There are a few cars in the background.

  21. A composite of three men's heads and shoulders. From left to right Matt Cook, Peter Drake and Karl Denning.

  22. Computer-generated image of the proposed Birmingham tower for Gas Street Basin named The Narrowhouse. The tower is seen from its narrow side rising above older houses in the city.

  23. A composite image showing a BBC reporter on the left and piles of rubbish on the right.

  24. A skip overflowing with bin bags. The street has cobbling in parts and the yellow skip has "action" stencilled on the side. A cardboard box stands in front while dozens of bin bags are piled over the skip. Behind the skip are several homes with net curtains in their front windows.