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  1. A red brick building, with a large set of wooden double doors with a sign reading "Advice House" above them.

  2. A smiling Michael Tafft. He is wearing black chef's clothes and against a backdrop. It has advertising on it.

  3. Flowers left at the scene. They are pink roses tied to a fence. There are shrubs behind them.

  4. A close-up side-on shot of a woman's face as she sings. She has shoulder-length blonde hair and her mouth is open as she performs. The background is blurred and dark blue. A microphone is in the bottom-right corner of the image.

  5. Illustrative plans which show a drawing of a six-storey building in brown and red brick. There are four fir trees in the picture and a blue sky in the background.

  6. A view of St Editha's Church in Tamworth, from a high vantage point. The church building rises up above the rooftop of surrounding buildings, including the town's Assembly Rooms in the foreground of the photograph.

  7. A red and yellow helicopter on the ground. Grass and trees are in the distance.

  8. A collection of pink flowers

  9. 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

  10. Fire engulfing a car and caravan parked on the side of a main road. They are close to a church lychgate on the left and a hedge on the right of the pavement.

  11. Sir Michael Fabricant, with thick blonde hair wearing a grey waistcoat and black suit, is stood smiling while holding up an open red jewellery box containing a medal.

  12. A long road with green trees either side. There are two bollards in the middle of the road with a small pedestrian crossing area

  13. Four men with blonde white hair, wearing whitewashed denim jackets and a white t-shirt, look in various directions under pink and blue lighting in a studio

  14. A street view image of a dark redish-brown building with six rows of wide windows. Attached to a fence is a yellow board with purple writing that says "For Sale, substantial office building. 102,000 SQ.FT (9,476 SQ.M.) All Enquires"

  15. A three-storey Keele University building. Trees and grass are to the far left of the photo.

  16. 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.

  17. Robins keeping calm about Potters plight

    Stoke number 10 Bae Jun-Ho is closed down by Cardiff's Luey Giles in the 3-3 draw in the Potteries in February Rex Features

    Stoke and Cardiff are both locked in a relegation fight at the bottom of the Championship

    Stoke City boss Mark Robins says he is trying to keep things calm going into Saturday's latest relegation crunch game at Cardiff City.

    After being denied three points by an injury-time equaliser from 23rd-placed Luton Town at the Bet365 Stadium, Robins' Potters now take on 22nd-placed Cardiff City.

    Cardiff are two points better off than Luton and a home win - coupled with Derby County winning at Portsmouth - would dump Stoke in the bottom three.

    But Robins knows that it is down to him to talk positively, back his players and keep the nerves out of his dressing room.

    "Unfortunately I've come into a situation when I knew this may be possible and it's proving that way," he said. "But I love the job and this is part of the job.

    "I'm just trying to get us over the line this season and then we will look to what we can do in the future so that we don't see this happen anymore.

    "There are good players, there really are. They have the talent which they can utilise to help benefit us for the rest of this season and beyond.

    "There have been circumstances around this season that I don't want to see again. There have been too many players who have missed too much football for whatever reason. At the end of all this we have to make sure that those things don't happen. But it's the here and now that matters."

    After Saturday's trip to South Wales, the Potters host Sheffield Wednesday on Good Friday before two games in five days against two of the top three - away to Leeds United on Easter Monday and a Friday night visit of Sheffield United - then the final-day trip to John Eustace's Derby.

  18. 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.

  19. A large group of people, all wearing high visibility vests and hard hats, is stood posing for the camera. The front four are holding shovels.

  20. Pick of the stats: Cardiff City v Stoke City

    Cardiff City and Stoke City club emblems

    There have probably not been many bigger meetings between Cardiff City and Stoke City.

    A victory for the Welsh side could condemn the Potters to a place in the relegation zone, but Stoke also have the chance to put some breathing space between themselves and the bottom three.

    • Cardiff are unbeaten across their past nine league games against Stoke (W3 D6), winning this fixture 2-1 at home last season.

    • Stoke have failed to win any of their past six away league games against Cardiff (D3 L3) since a 1-0 victory in August 2007.

    • Each of Cardiff's past three league games have been draws (1-1 v Sheffield Wednesday, 0-0 v QPR, 2-2 v Preston); the Bluebirds last drew four successive league games in December 2022, a run which included a 2-2 draw with Stoke.

    • Stoke have managed to win just one of their past 13 away league matches (D4 L8), a 2-1 victory at Hull in February.

    • Stoke's Lewis Baker has scored seven goals in the Championship this season; only in 2021-22 has he netted more in a single league campaign (8). Baker has five goals in his past eight league appearances, as many as his previous 52 beforehand.

  21. A four-storey brick-built building, which has been seriously damaged, can be seen with fencing around it.

  22. A woman with short grey hair in a pink jacket is walking arm in arm with a man with short grey hair, their backs are to the camera. They are walking past a black metal fence that has a large white sign. It reads "polling station" in black letters. There are bushes in the background

  23. A woman is holding her baby son in her arms. Both mother and son are dressed in red and smiling at the camera. The woman's hair is brown and cut in a bob, with a fringe, and pink bathroom tiles and a floral shower curtain can be seen behind.

  24. Police mugshots of Jack Spackman, Joe Corden and Kyle Worthington. Each is stood against a light-coloured background.