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  1. A man with short grey hair and goatee beard stands in a park. His white tshirt has a sun, palm tree and the letters WG forming a logo. Beneath the logo it says WINDRUSH GENERATION. There are trees and people playing cricket in the background on a sunny day.

  2. A woman wearing a white and green top stands in front of pieces of art. She is smiling at the camera. Behind her lies two paintings, as well as a piece of patchwork.

  3. A pantomime dame, in the style of Dame Edna Everage, wearing a blue dress with bright orange hair and large glasses.

  4. A seven-storey building, which is partially completed, is surrounded by scaffolding. There is a roundabout in the foreground of the image.

  5. Robins on Cisse signing and Talovierov injury update

    Robins: 'Around the place, it feels good'

    Stoke City boss Mark Robins says the signing of winger Lamine Cisse took longer than anticipated due to the Frenchman's injury.

    Cisse is currently nursing a minor shoulder injury but fans can expect to see their first glimpse of the 22-year-old, who joined the club on Thursday, sooner rather than later.

    "Thankfully, it's not as severe as we were fearing, and he's someone we've been looking at for a while," Robins told BBC Radio Stoke.

    "I look forward to him being fit, and I would imagine that won't be too long, so we are just looking forward to getting him going."

    Robins has also confirmed that summer signing Maksym Talovierov has returned to training following a minor hamstring injury.

    "It's great to have him back on the grass to see where he's at and try to get him up to speed as quickly as possible so he can play a part," the 55-year-old added.

    Listen to the full pre-match interview with Robins and more on BBC Sounds.

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  7. A road with a curved bend. On its left is a small car park with an ice cream van parked up. Beyond that is a large reservoir with green fields and trees around it.

  8. Two bitterns sat next to each other on a reed bed in front of a lake. Bitterns are large heron-like birds with light and dark brown feathers.

  9. A head and shoulders shot of Charlie Richards. He has short white hair and is smiling, while wearing a fawn v-necked juper over a grey shirt and red and grey tie. He is sitting on a grey armchair.

  10. Stoke City manager Mark Robins

  11. Port Vale manager Darren Moore in a black club t-shirt claps as he leaves the field

  12. The exterior of a red-brick school building with steps and ramps leading up to the doors. There are yellow lines marked out on the car park in front of the building.

  13. Anearial shot, showing a large plume of smoke eminating from a heavily wooded area.

  14. A teenage woman with long red hair and glasses looks at the camera. She is wearing a lanyard around her neck. In the background is a classroom environment with other students.

  15. A lorry heavily on fire on a motorway with grey smoke surrounding the vehicle

  16. A man with brown hair standing in front of a burnt field in a yellow hi vis jacket

  17. GMB boss Gary Smith, a man wearing a white shirt and dark-coloured tie with a black suit jacket. He is stood against a light purple backdrop.

  18. The front of Waterworld leisure attraction viewed from the main road. A police vehicle is parked on the entrance road.

  19. An aerial view of the Waterworld water park, showing multicolour slides twisting to the ground. The image also shows a car park and several trees next to the building.

  20. Dave Haslam, a man wearing a black coat and a dark-coloured baseball cap, is stood near some traffic lights in a city centre.

  21. Samantha Panton smiling for the camera. She is in her cafe. There is flowery wallpaper behind her. We can see a menu and some salt and pepper shakers blurred out in the background. She has long blonde hair and is wearing a colourful pink and white top.

  22. The trophy on the pitch after the Carabao Cup Final between Liverpool and Newcastle United at Wembley Stadium on March 16, 2025

  23. The bonnet of a police car, with high visibility yellow livery and reverse letters with the word police in navy blue.

  24. An small aircraft, minus its wings, is being lifted by a telehandler as two men at the fron tand back of the vehicle ensure it stays stable.