Birmingham & Black Country

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

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

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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".

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. A police mugshot of a man with dark dreadlocks and a black goatee-style beard. He is wearing a black hoodie. A West Midlands Police logo has been superimposed in the corner of the picture.

  16. A residential street has houses and flats on either side and cars parked on both sides of the street

  17. Houses are visible to the right of Crossfield Road, with some cars in front of them, but there are no vehicles on that street itself in this generic photo. Buildings are behind the roundabout in the distance.

  18. Crowds gather in the city centre waving rainbow flags. The sides and backs of people's head's can be seen and they appear to all be gazing towards the same thing. Red-brick houses can be seen in the background.

  19. Mariyah and Antonia are standing in front of a University of Birmingham building, which has statues made of stone carved into it. Mariyah is wearing a brown headscarf with a red, white, green and black keffiyeh draped over her shoulders. She has three silver nose piercings.

  20. A brick building which looks like a house. A black sign above the front door has the words "PARADISE" in white and "BAR" in red printed on it. Two red cars are parked on the road in front of it.

  21. A stock image showing the back of a police officer. They are wearing a green and yellow high-visibility tabard over a black top. The word "POLICE" is emblazoned on the back.

  22. A road leads between hedgerows, past a sign reading Aston Wood Golf Club in capital letters. A police officer and another man in civilian clothing are standing near the gate. A police car and a golf buggy are also visible.

  23. A man walks past a pile of bin bags on a residential street. There are terraced houses on either side of the street.

  24. A woman with long dark hair in a ponytail, viewed from behind her shoulder, sitting at a desk with a keyboard and several screens in front of her. She is wearing a headset and a white blouse with a black lapel labelled "enquiry officer".