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  1. An open 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

  2. A police mugshot of a man with short hair, brushed forward, a short moustache and a beard on his chin and neck. The West Midlands Police badge has been superimposed in the corner of the picture.

  3. A metal fence on the left side of a road has blue and white police tape knotted around it. There are trees on the right side of the road and a white building is on the left of the photo.

  4. Barry Fry

  5. A generic image of a West Midlands Metro tram. It is mainly blue and going from left to right on the photo in front of a building. Two road signs are to the right.

  6. Rover wife Gemma Cartwright and a man smiling. They are looking at the camera.

  7. Six greyhounds racing on a sandy track, having just run out of their stalls. The dogs, which are all black, are pictured from the front. It is a sunny day.

  8. An overhead view of Birmingham New Street. The station is a large glass mirrored building. There is a train driving on tracks to the left while there are numerous empty tracks on the right.

  9. A collection of pink flowers

  10. A dark grey van with damage to the front and a ladder on the roof on the back of a trailer with trees in the background

  11. A police officer with their back to the camera. They are wearing a yellow and silver hi-vis police jacket, with the word "police" on the back on a blue background. In the background, blurred, are two other police officers in the same jackets. They are also wearing black police hats.

  12. A dug-out pond on a strip of grass, with white tarpaulin inside it.

  13. Three police officers stand in a field wearing black uniform and hat and black raincoats. Two are holding large police dogs on a lead.

  14. A pile of rubbish on Bromfield Close in Aston on Tuesday 8 April. There are black bin bags and plastic carrier bags full of rubbish, with litter scattered around the heap. A brick wall stands opposite a row of terraced houses.

  15. 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.

  16. A man sits in an empty warehouse, a TV panel card is held in front of him.

  17. A police mugshot of a man with a ginger beard and short dark hair, wearing a black hoodie, with a white, lined, background behind him.

  18. A young child with dark hair and a white T-shirt, holding a card which reads "today I am 11". He sits on some form of seating, in front of a white wall.

  19. Seven men standing in a line. They are all wearing orange high-visibility tabards and all but one are wearing blue baseball caps. In front of them is a large pile of blue bin bags. A street sign nearby reads "SHAKESPEARE ST".

  20. It is Ethan's graduation day and he is staring into the camera and smiling. He is wearing a black graduation cap with a matching gown that has red and yellow and hood. Underneath that, he has a black shirt on and the collar is peeking out over the gown. Ethan is wearing black round glasses and has dark brown eyes. He has dark brown hair and a matching goatee. The bacgkround is blurred but you can see the outline of other graduates taking pictures with their families.

  21. A man with short brown hair, wearing glasses and a suit, looks to the left of the camera, talking, standing next to a canal on a sunny day.

  22. Two mugshots side by side - one man has dark hair and a dark beard, and is wearing a black top, while the other has long black hair and a goatee and is wearing a blue shirt.

  23. A close up of a hi-vis yellow jacket with a blue and white logo on it which reads 'police'

  24. A man and woman dressed in a suit and wedding dress and scuba gear, with a dozen other people dressed as wedding guests and equipped with scuba masks and air tanks