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  1. A man with white hair and a beard in a grey suit and red tie next to a woman with blonde hair and a blue blouse and a man with short brown hair and a dark suit with a pale blue tie, all sitting on a red sofa

  2. Somerset's cricketers cheer in celebration as their captain holds up the T20 Blast Trophy their team won in the final against Hampshire at Edgbaston. They are standing insidea temporary platform that has "winners" in white letters on a red background at the bottom and at the top has "Vitality Blast 2025" also in white letters on a red background. Fireworks are going off in the background creating clouds of white sparks

  3. Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sitting togehter on a sofa with two small dogs

  4. A man with short black hair kisses another man with long slicked black hair on his cheek.

  5. A composite image. On the left is a close-up of a 2025 Great North Run medal hanging from a red ribbon. In the middle, comedian Seann Walsh is smiling at the camera. He is wearing a grey hat. On the right, there is a close up of a white football with black blue and red shapes, and written in ink "BAFC".

  6. A man with a beard and long brown hair is holding a black kitten in his arms.

    • UK
    The Northern Lights in green and edged with red over Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire. The brightest parts look like ribbons in the sky. The ruins of the abbey stand underneath with fields around them. there is a house lit up in the background.

  8. Adam Lind (right) along with John Sweeney smiling and holding a carboard sign that says "Human kindness experiment, walking from Birmingham to London."

  9. A woman with curly dark hair and black eyeliner, wearing a grey turtleneck, looks at the camera. The West Midlands Police logo is at the bottom right of the picture.

  10. A woman with grey hair and glasses and wearing a purple hoodie is sitting in a chair and the wall behind her is a peach colour with gold leaf patterns on it.

  11. An area of grassland next to a road.

  12. Three people, one woman and a man, namely, Anne Shaw, Richard Parker and Pete Bond, are standing in front of a screen displaying animated red West Midlands buses.

  13. A woman with brown hair and glasses and wearing a green apron over a check and black dress is holding a large blue flag in her right hand.

  14. A red double decker bus, converted into a cancer hub, parked on a high street.

  15. Graham Eardley is standing behind a podium with the Walsall Council name and crest on it. He is wearing a black suit, wearing a Reform UK rosette, and he's joined by four other members of the party, and he's giving a thumbs up along with two of his supporters. They are standing in front of a dark cloth background which has white fairy lights hanging from top to bottom.

  16. An artist expression of a roundabout at the new Moseley Village Railway Station. Several cars go around the junction with a u-shaped drop off area linked to it.

  17. A huge pile of rubbish on a pavement includes black bin bags, several mattresses, cardboard boxes, metal and plastic

  18. The cityscape of Birmingham showing industrial buildings in the foreground and high-rise towers on the horizon.

  19. A metal commercial unit blackened by a fire. Twisted corrugated metal can be seen around a steel-frame structure with some green trees in front.

  20. A computer generated picture showing a rail hub with red brick walls and a glass roof

  21. Paul Topham has short dark hair and a grey top on his his police mugshot.

  22. A split image of Ray Lloyd in his paramedic uniform. One black and white where he has dark hair and a thick moustache. The image on the right shows Ray now. He is bald has a white beard and goatee and is smiling and wearing a dark green paramedic uniform. He is standing next to an ambulance.

  23. Lorraine Boyce is an elderly woman. She is sitting in her lounge on a brown chair. We can see a bookcase behind her. There is a mug on the table next to her. She is wearing clear thin-rimmed glasses and a dark blue jumper.

  24. A police van parked outside a college building with a big blue sign saying 'University College Birmingham'. There are around a dozen people outside the building which also has a bus shelter in front of it.