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  1. A group of people standing in a church car park in front of a red-brick church. They are wearing various colours of coats and hi-vis. At the front, a man in a hat and a woman in a green coat are holding a large wooden cross.

  2. An overhead view of the map of the planned new ponds, detailing they would go in currently underused parts of Merton Meadow along the Yazor brook.

  3. A well is decorated with ribbons and round pictures of trees against brightly-coloured backgrounds. There is a figure wearing knotted, gold beads and there are arrangements of red grass heads. Handwritten notes are fastened to an archway made of branches and decorated with flowers.

  4. Seven children lined up in a row in a garden wearing bunny ears and holding easter egg baskets. They stand on grass in front of a fence with plants in front of it.

  5. Emergency vehicles including an ambulance are parked on a rural road. A group of emergency workers is standing near a field with a barn in the background. There are posts lining the grass verge which is next to a hedgerow.

  6. Teacher Rebecca Richardson has shoulder-length blonde/brown hair. She is wearing a black top and has her hand on a red bag strap and has sunglasses on her head. The background behind her is blurred.

  7. A close-up photograph of a teenage girl in a bedroom using a smart phone. She is wearing a striped jumper and blue trousers and her nails are painted dark blue. She has long hair and is sitting on a bed. Her face cannot be seen.

  8. The picture is taken inside an industrial-scale poultry shed. It shows six young chickens close up and dozens of chickens in the background. The animals are sitting on wood shavings and there are red water feeders hanging from a pipe at their head level.

  9. Workers at Bransford Webb Plant Company work at a table with rows of young plants that are being potted on and sold. A line of plants each with a few leaves is potted in black containers. The staff are blurred and the plants are in focus.

  10. Two images side by side show one photograph of the house with the arched window space bricked up, and another picture of the house as it will look after the mural is painted. The mural has three ornamental window spaces surrounded by stone.

  11. Adrian Herbert standing beside his mother's grave. The headstone has floral tributes but also a yellow triangular warning sticker placed on it. It is a sunny day and there is a blue sky with grass and trees.

  12. A black and white cat strolls around a university campus on a paved path. There is a red brick building behind it with a blue sign with white writing that reads Elizabeth Barrett Browning Flats 1-6.

  13. A CCTV image of a man wearing a dark flat cap, glasses and brown jacket in a shop. There are fridge shelves with bottled drinks behind him and a counter to one side.

  14. A plastic sign which says 'riverside paddling pool rules', bolted onto a gate which is locked shut, with a pool basin behind it.

  15. Inside a barber shop, the chairs are empty and in the foreground a police officer has their back to the camera. They are wearing a black stab vest with police written on it. In front of the officer a person, whose face has been blurred, is seen being handcuffed by another officer

  16. Gareth Cottrell, chairman of Toros FC, has short brown hair and a short dark and grey beard. He is wearing a blue zip up top with a collar. He is holding black bin bags full of litter cleared from the green sports field behind him, and there is a pavilion and car in the background.

  17. A woman with shoulder-length brown hair is wearing a blue top inside a room with white walls and stickers across the walls as decoration.

  18. Councillor Nick Mason (right) with fellow Herefordshire councillors Dan Hurcomb (left) and Barry Durkin (front). Mason is wearing a yellow lanyard.

  19. Leanne Hodgetts stands near a pallet laden with cheese and holds one in her hands. She is wearing a black jacket and has her hair in a ponytail.

  20. A picture of a drone being flown in the sky. The device has red lights on and its propellers or rotors are spinning. It is daytime and the sky is blue.

  21. Steven Duffield, stands next to a river - he has red and white checkered headgear on, and is wearing sunglasses and a white T-shirt. He is pointing a finger at the camera

  22. Former director of Children's Services, Darryl Freeman, wearing a shirt, jacket and rainbow lanyard. He is sitting in an office and there is a bag next to him.

  23. White vehicles on grass on the left and right of the photo. A tree is in the foreground on the left, with other trees in the background.

  24. Duncan Cooper has short grey hair. He is wearing a blue and white patterned shirt with a black T-shirt underneath. He is stood in his bookshop with children's books on white shelves behind him.