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  1. A general view of the office block of Voreda House in Penrith

  2. Sun setting in the cloudy sky, with the Sellafield nuclear site in the distance. Rolling fields can be seen in front.

  3. A general view taken from a Google Streetview screengrab of part of the land proposed for development. it is a green patch of land with a tree, off a small road. There are farming buildings and a house in the background.

  4. A male prison officer standing in a prison, in uniform, with his hands behind his back and his back to the camera. He's standing in a narrow corridor between two rows of cells with light green doors.

  5. General view of Sellafield Nuclear power plant, in Cumbria. The shot is taken from a distance with the sea on the horizon. It is a cloudy but sunny day. The foreground is green areas of land.

  6. An artist's impression of what the visitor centre would look like. It is a building shaped like a short cylinder, with rusty red cladding. It has a metal structure around it, supported by an external stone wall.

  7. Josh MacAlister standing outside Yewdale Ward. He has short brown hair and a neat beard. He is wearing a light blue shirt and dark jacket. There is a sign for the ward on a wall behind him.

  8. An Uber sticker on a dark car. The white sticker has text in it which reads: "Uber. Be booked, be insured."

  9. A Google Streetview screenshot of Mr Li's Chinese Takeaway on London Road in Carlisle. It has a white sign with red lettering and leaflets are hanging from the windows.

  10. Two teenagers, a boy and girl, stand with the sea in the background, smiling at the camera. The boy, Jim, is wearing a cycle helmet and a T-shirt with the Unicef logo on it.

  11. The early reconstruction of the face of The Kendal Woman. She is a middle-aged woman wearing a dark turban and she has blue eyes.

  12. A railway track going through a station. A beach runs alongside the right and ahead is a level crossing.

  13. Frontage of Penrith town hall, a late 18th Century sandstone and red brick building with ornate lintels and balconies and decorative stone urns on either side of the upper windows. A few trees are just poking into shot. A white flag pole stands in front.

  14. Josh MacAlister is crouching on the ground, assembling a stretcher on a path part-way up a Cumbrian fell. He's wearing a red coat with Patterdale Mountain Rescue branding on it. Stone houses can be seen at the bottom of the fell and mountains behind them.

  15. A group photo of the winners of the 2025 BBC Radio Cumbria Make a Difference Awards. They are on a purple carpet, smiling and holding their trophies. The Make a Difference Awards logo is projected on a screen behind them. The venue is lit in a dimmed purple light.

  16. A wildlife ranger walking with her black fluffy dog during deer management work in Cumbria. She is dressed in brown jacket and trousers and wears binoculars over her head. Her blonde hair is tied in a ponytail.

  17. A vintage yellow and red bus. "Ribble" is painted in red on the side. The sign at the top reads: "X Manchester".

  18. A red boat at sea appears to be facing a vertical rainbow ahead of it.

  19. Father and daughter in a grassy field. Dog is in the man's lap. The girl has her head in her hands and is crying.

  20. A selfie of Jason Dempsey with one of his pigeons. They are in a shed. Jason has short grey hair and beard and brown eyes. He is wearing a black jumper.

  21. 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".

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    Metal train tracks are being replaced. There are workers wearing orange hi-vis suits and white helmets in the background.

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    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.

  24. Kendal Highgate (the town's High Street). It is gridlocked with traffic, with large HGVs in the small road. There are cars parked the opposite direction on a one way street. There are market flags and shops on either side of the road, but this is obscured with how busy the road is.