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  1. Pick of the stats: Stoke City v QPR

    Stoke City and QPR team emblems

    Stoke City are one point clear of the Championship relegation zone as they prepare to host QPR on Saturday (15:00 GMT)

    QPR have not won an away league game since a 2-1 victory at Hull City on 21 January.

    • Stoke City have won just one of their past 11 league games against sides from London (D4 L6), failing to score in seven of those matches.

    • QPR have lost just two of their past six away league games against Stoke City (W3 D1), though one of those defeats came last season at the bet365 Stadium (1-0).

    • Stoke have lost just one of their past seven home league games (W3 D3), keeping five clean sheets across that time.

    • QPR have lost each of their past five away league games, last enduring a longer losing run on their travels between March and August 2018 (six defeats).

    • Stoke City's Sam Gallagher has scored six goals against QPR in his career – the most he's netted against any side – including one in his last home match against the London outfit, for Blackburn Rovers in February last season.

  2. A group of footbll players are huddled together on an astroturf pitch. Some of them are wearing green tabards, they are all wearing navy blue t-shirts.

  3. Man with short dark and flecks of grey hair is stood on a football pitch, with a town visible in the background. He is wearing a patterned shirt and a blue jacket.

  4. A man wearing a black top, with a cigarette in his mouth, is cupping his hands around a lighter.

  5. An area of wasteland with a multi-storey car park in the distance. There is a pigeon in the bottom left hand corner of the photo.

  6. A close-up image of a teenage boy with long curly black hair sitting in the back seat of a car.

  7. David Cox, a man wearing a grey suit and a light blue tie as well as a red lanyard indicating he is a visitor. He is standing in an office-like room.

  8. Two women, both wearing glasses, stand close together and are smiling. The woman on the left has long brown hair and is wearing dark blue dungarees over a light blue top, while the woman on the right, who has long blond hair, is wearing an orange woollen jumper.

  9. Mickey Demetriou acknowledges the Crewe fans before Saturday's 0-0 draw at Notts County

  10. The entrance of Chester Crown Court, which is a pale brick-built building. Letters above the door read "Crown Court" and with a light below.

  11. A police handout showing Darren Green, a man with dark brown hair and a beard.

  12. A group of 11 people on a ship-shaped theme park ride in the air,

  13. A woman with long dark brown hair is wearing a black dress with white spots and a denim jacket over the top. She is stood against a purple BBC Radio Stoke branded backdrop. She has her hands in her pockets and is looking at the camera.

  14. A girl with blond pigtails sitting under a black umbrella in a garden with a blanket on her lap and legs propped on a second chair, a cat by her feet.

  15. A CCTV image shows a man wearing a black cap, a black coat with a white hood, and a green top with a large Nike logo across it. He has a bag strap over his shoulder. He is seen from above and is looking down, but appears to be in a shop doorway. There is glass behind him and there are blue shopping baskets stacked on one side.

  16. A police mugshot of a man with thinning light brown hair, wearing a black jumper and stood against a grey background. He is looking downwards and has an unhappy look on his face.

  17. Wendy Jones, a woman with blonde hair, is wearing a large hoop earring and a black and white top. She is smiling as she poses for the camera.

  18. A woman with dark brown hair to her shoulders, in a white t-shirt with pink lettering, sitting in a garden next to a hedge. Brown-brick flats can be seen behind her. The woman is smiling at someone in front of her to her right and wearing a small microphone on the collar of her t-shirt.

  19. A brown bin with garden waste visible from under the lid

  20. Ben Jackson scores the only goal of the game as Barrow beat Port Vale

  21. The fluorescent yellow bonnet of a police car, with the word police in reverse letters.

  22. A huge pile of illegally dumped waste material, which appears to include housebuilding materials and tubing and various other items.

  23. A middle-aged woman with short dark hair and wearing a pale blue cardigan is holding a glass of red wine and smiling at the camera. Her other hand is on the shoulder of another woman of a similar age with shortish blonde hair, who is also smiling at the camera.

  24. Police mugshots showing Dylan Hurd Maskery and Callum Talbot. The pair are wearing grey jumpers and are standing against a white background.