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  1. Tyler is sat in a police van wearing a police helmet. A uniformed police officer is standing at the side of the van smiling at him.

  2. A brown, pebble-dashed, semi-detached house blackened by smoke. The white front door is covered in smoke damage and the front bay window is boarded up.

  3. A white, green and yellow air ambulance stationary in a field. In the background an ambulance can be seen behind a hedge. There is a pylon and the sky is orange and yellow.

  4. Pick of the stats - Middlesbrough v Sheffield Wednesday

    Middlesbrough v Sheff Wed graphic

    Middlesbrough are currently in the final Championship play-off spot in a tight battle for the top six at the midway point of the season.

    They are level on points with seventh-placed West Bromwich Albion while just five points separate fifth-placed Blackburn Rovers and ninth-placed Sheffield Wednesday.

    The Owls travel to the Riverside having won two games in a row whereas Boro have won just once in their past four games.

    • Middlesbrough have won three of their last five league matches against Sheffield Wednesday (D1 L1) and won 2-0 at the Riverside last season.

    • Sheffield Wednesday have lost their last two league visits to Middlesbrough since a 4-1 victory under Garry Monk in September 2019.

    • This is the fourth league meeting between Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday on Boxing Day – Boro won 1-0 in 1930 but the Owls have won the last two in 1999 and 2018.

    • Middlesbrough have won nine of their last 12 league games on Boxing Day but did lose 1-0 away at Rotherham United last season.

    • Sheffield Wednesday lost 2-0 to Coventry on Boxing Day last year but haven't lost on consecutive years since 2000 (2-0 vs. Bolton) and 2001 (1-0 vs. Birmingham).

  5. A bespectacled man in a jumper and a man in a flat cap stand either side of a Christmas tree clad with tinsel. A board featuring the initials "NUM" stands to the left of the picture.

  6. Road with cars parked on either side. There are shops on the road.

  7. Gateshead v Hartlepool United

  8. Custody photographs of Mark Moran with red short hair and Daniel Livingstone with curly brown hair and beard and glasses both wear grey t-shirts

  9. Rotation will benefit squad in long term - Carrick

    Carrick's side lie sixth as they prepare to host ninth-placed Sheffield Wednesday

    Middlesbrough head coach Michael Carrick believes he will see his side reap the benefits of rotating the starting line-up during the second half of the season.

    The 43-year-old opted to select Tommy Conway ahead of Emmanuel Latte Lath for Boro's entertaining 3-3 draw with Plymouth Argyle on Saturday, one of three changes from the side that started the victory over Millwall seven days earlier.

    "I think as a whole group the boys have played a lot of games between them and that has been a big plus for us moving through the season," Carrick told BBC Radio Tees ahead of his side's Boxing Day sell-out clash with Sheffield Wednesday.

    Latte Lath was a 75th-minute substitute at Home Park, scoring nine minutes after coming on to the pitch, and Carrick believes alternating his top attacking talent will improve his side's chances of a play-off surge in the new year.

    "Tommy [Conway] scored a goal which was onside which was given offside, it was a good finish from Tommy, and Manu [Latte Lath] took his chance fantastically well and got us right back in the game so, yeah, pleased with both of them.

    "I would like to think that we'll get the benefits further through the season - I think the boys individually are looking in a good place".

  10. Yan Valery is congratulated by Sheff Wed captain Barry Bannan for his goal

  11. Three members of Blues Band DNA. Dave Penman is in the centre playing guitar he is wearing a cap and grey jumper and looking down. To his right is a band member in front of a microphone singing and to the right is a drummer.

  12. Bear the cat sitting on a fluffy blanket and wearing a cone. Bear is small and black.

  13. Five-year-old Evie hugging a snowglobe and looking at the camera

  14. A pair of elderly hands in front of an electric heater

  15. Grassed area with a purple sign on two posts reading "The Welcome Centre - A Place with a Heart". Behind it are shrubs and a two trees

  16. Taxis lined up in a street. Some are white, some black, and they have red or yellow signs on their roofs saying they are a taxi.

  17. Carrick hails Boro character after six-goal thriller

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    Michael Carrick applauds the Middlesbrough fans after their draw at Plymouth

    Middlesbrough head coach Michael Carrick was not happy with his team's defending but hailed their character after Saturday's 3-3 draw at Plymouth.

    "I was pleased with the boys' character and commitment and belief to keep pegging it back second half like we did," he told BBC Radio Tees.

    "I thought we were the better team second half, but first half we weren't at our best.

    "You can't concede that many opportunities and goals and expect to win games every week.

    "[With] the attacking play and opportunities we maybe could have scored more, but we just gave ourselves too much to do really."

  18. View of Eston High Street leading up to a curve with a church on the top right. A number of closed or empty shops can be seen on the left with a partial view of a white parked car.

  19. Artist's impression of how a new housing estate could look. The houses are large and detached, with red and beige bricks. There are cars parked outside and rows of green bushes.

  20. Part of the front of a building with glass panels around a glass front door. There are metal rails leading to the front door with the blurred figure of a man walking towards it. A sign at the top of the building reads "Tees Valley".

  21. A CGI illustration of a street of detached houses with cars parked in their drives, overlooking a field.

  22. Hayden Hackney celebrates

  23. Three-year-old Beatrix dressed in rescue uniform and riding a toy emergency service bike behind two blood bikers, standing next to two motorbikes and also dressed in florescent emergency clothing.

  24. Wayne Rooney claps