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  1. An aerial view of the incinerator which has been built near Heighington. It is a large grey building with a car park outside. It is surrounded by trees and grassland.

  2. The top of a bronze statue of a cat. The beach can be seen behind it.

  3. Bo Willow Harris, in a black top and leopard print skirt is holding her son Hendrix. They are both smiling at the camera while standing in front of black and white photographs attached on a white wall as part of the exhibition. Hendrix has short dark blonde hair and is wearing a black and white jacket, pink t-shirt, and a black trousers. His mother has long wavy black hair.

  4. A view of the outside of HMP Deerbolt, a large fence topped with barbed wire can be seen next to a large building with a curved roof. A British flag can be seen on a flagpole outside.

  5. A green space in Leadgate, County Durham, where there is a proposal to build 97 new homes. It is an area of fairly wild grassland bordered by trees and hedges. A wide, concrete path leads a short way into the main field.

  6. Lisa Evans has blonde hair smiling at camera. She is wearing a patterned white top with designs of red and black flowers. In the background is a blue neon sign.

  7. A red and white 'Do not feed the pigeons' sign attached to a lamp post in the bottom left and Darlington clocktower in the background on the right.

  8. Brian Mole (left) and Melvyn Mole (right) at the Great Wall of China. They are wearing their hiking equipment including rucksacks. They are smiling and looking to the right of the camera.

  9. Burt, a grey parrot, tilts his head as he looks into the camera. There is a white two-tier storage shelf on the wall behind him. A vase with white lilies is placed on the top shelf. There is a framed wedding photograph on the lower shelf.

  10. Stock image of woman's black silhouette looking down.

  11. Blue logo saying call 111 when in it not an 999 emergency

  12. A police car can be seen in the foreground, parked before a zebra crossing with police tape stretched across it.

  13. Lions up, Watford down? The 2025 Championship table

    Ben Ashton
    BBC Sport England

    Graphic showing the 2025 calendar year Championship table's top six, which is: 1st Burnley 52 points, 2nd Leeds 49 points, 3rd Coventry 41 points, 4th Sheffield Utd 39 pts, 5th Millwall 37 points, 6th Bristol City 35 pointsGetty Images

    Watford are getting relegated, Plymouth are staying up, Millwall are in the play-offs and Portsmouth are also battling for a top-six spot.

    Does something sound a bit off? Well, that's what would have happened if the Championship season started on 1 January.

    Here's a look at the 2025 calendar year table, showing who the form sides were in the second half of the season and who went into freefall.

    Perhaps the most notable difference between the actual final top six and the 2025 version is that Millwall would be in the play-offs and Premier League-bound Sunderland would not.

    Burnley and Leeds still comfortably occupy the automatic promotion spots, albeit the Clarets would be unbeaten at the top of the pile with the Whites in second.

    Coventry improved significantly after Frank Lampard replaced Mark Robins and are third over the course of the year.

    The Sky Blues would instead be pitted against Bristol City in the play-off semi-final as opposed to Sunderland. Who knows what difference that would have made to their promotion bid...

    Graphic showing the 2025 calendar year Championship table from 7th to 12th, which is: 7th Portsmouth 34 points, 8th Sunderland 32 points, 9th QPR 30 points, 10th Oxford 29 points, 11th West Brom 28 points, 12th Blackburn 28 pointsRex Features

    Portsmouth - who spent much of the season battling relegation and only secured their Championship safety with two games to spare - are seventh and just one point outside a play-off spot.

    Pompey sit above Sunderland, who lost their final five games of the season and are down in eighth.

    The data perhaps shows just how long Regis Le Bris' side effectively had a play-off spot sewn up before their victory at Wembley against Sheffield United to claim promotion.

    Relegation battlers Oxford find themselves seven places higher than where they actually finished in the 2024-25 campaign (17th), reflecting the good work done by Gary Rowett after he took over as boss from Des Buckingham.

    Graphic showing the 2025 calendar year Championship table from 13th to 18th, which is: 13th Plymouth 28 points, 14th Swansea 28 points, 15th Hull City 27 points, 16th Norwich 27 points, 17th Middlesbrough 27 points, 18th Stoke 26 pointsRex Features

    Plymouth would have survived comfortably had the season begun in January 2025, showing a significant uptick after Miron Muslic replaced Wayne Rooney at the helm.

    Middlesbrough tailed off significantly in the second half of the season, underpinning why they missed out on the play-offs. It was a drop off that ultimately cost Michael Carrick his job as head coach.

    Norwich City conceded more goals (32) than any other side in 2025, which counteracted the hard work they'd done at the other end, having been the fourth top scorers (31) since the turn of the year.

    Graphic showing the 2025 calendar year Championship table from 13th to 18th, which is: 19th Sheffield Wednesday 25 points, 20th Luton 24 points, 21st Derby 23 points, 22nd Cardiff 23 points, 23rd Preston 21 points, 24th Watford 20 pointsRex Features

    Watford had a disappointing 2025, winning just five of their 23 games and losing 13 to finish bottom of the calendar year table.

    The Hornets had the joint-worst goal difference along with Cardiff (-10) and head coach Tom Cleverley was sacked following the end of the season.

    Preston and Cardiff won the fewest games of any side in 2025 (4), which cost the Bluebirds their Championship status and almost led to the Lilywhites dropping into League One as they avoided relegation by one point.

    Paul Heckingbottom's side would be down if only games this year were counted.

    Luton and Derby scored the fewest goals in 2025 (19) and attacking output was an issue that plagued both sides throughout the entire campaign.

    It had major consequences for the Hatters with back-to-back relegations, while the Rams survived by a point - and only on goal difference in the yearly table.

    Data collated from Transfermarkt

  14. A row of cars parked in front of a hedge outside the entrance to the James Cook University Hospital.

  15. A large group of male and female councillors outside Durham County Council's county hall

  16. Police officers and police vehicles in a car park in Easington. Officers are wearing dark blue overalls and caps with some wearing high visibility jackets. They are huddled in a group and standing in front of a black Range Rover and a marked police car.

  17. A stock image of the back of a police officer. They are wearing a black jacket and yellow hi-vis vest over the top that has 'POLICE' written on it in white capital letters, surrounded by a blue box.

  18. Dan in a hospital bed. He has cuts to his face and chin and has a large bandage pad taped to his forehead. He is wearing a hospital gown.

  19. A grey ankle tag being strapped on. A strap runs through a grey box and has several holes available for different sized ankles.

  20. An older man stands next to a mountain rescue vehicle. He is wearing a red waterproof jacket with a small mountain logo on the chest, a black collared top

  21. Thelma Clark has grey hair and a black top and black trousers. She is standing with her arms crossed in front of a brick wall.

  22. An artist impression of what the replica lodge would look like. It looks like the outline of a house made from brown metal. The structure is on a hard surface which is surrounded by grass and trees.

  23. Kaylee Davidson-Olley, centre, while as a baby and with short spiked up hair is being held by her late mother, Carol, who is also holding a card which says "especially for you".

  24. A man with short silver hair and a beard, is holding a laminated paper sign attached to a lamp post in front of him.