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  1. Dr Fiona Hill is smiling at the camera. She has straight grey hair and is wearing a blue suit jacket, black top and a silver flower necklace.

  2. A group of four volunteers attaching native oysters to white, concrete-like oyster reef cubes ahead of their deployment in the North Sea.

  3. Shelf of stacked tins of Tesco brand chilli con carne and stewed steak, in cardboard trays with the name Tesco on them. The price label under the chilli con carne tins reads £2.10 and the price label under the steak reads £3.45 - more expensive than the prices in the largest Tesco, which are £1.81 and £3.

  4. An interior section of Durham Cathedral lit up red and purple on Tuesday 7 October 2025.

  5. John Hobbs has white hair and slightly red cheeks and is smiling close-lipped. He is wearing a light blue shirt with a navy blue and white spotted scarf or cravat at his neck inside the collar, which is open. He is standing in front of an open garage door and a garden can be seen over his left shoulder.

  6. A black and white photo of Mary Schweermann holding her baby daughter Edna. Her older daughter Delia is standing on a chair next to them. She has her arm around her mother's shoulders. Their dad, Herbert Vince, is standing next to Delia. Mary is wearing a long black dress with high neck and long sleeves. Her black hair is styled in two high buns. Baby Edna is wearing white socks and a white dress. Delia is wearing a white jumper and a white skirt. Her curly hair reaches her shoulders. Herbert is wearing a black suit with a waistcoat, white shirt and a white tie. He has short black hair and a mustache.

  7. Venerable Bede Church of England Academy is a two-storey modern building, moslty in white and beige. The entrance is in its centre. It is purple and in a cylinder shape. The school is surrounded by a hedges and a grassed area with a staircase leading to the building.

  8. Caribe Coffee. The small hut has been built in the corner of Sunderland Station. Two tables with four chairs are set out of the front of the hut. The rest of the station is empty.

  9. Workers in high visibility orange clothing and helmets inside the new Darlington train station. It's tall and light modern building with large windows and screens. Fences and machinery scattered across the hall.

  10. A crowd of men walk down a street holding banners. The eight banners are attached to large poles and are red, blue and yellow in colour with various designs including portraits of men and collieries. A row of terraced brick houses can be seen on the right and parked 1950s style parked cars can be seen on the left. The crowds of men are walking down the road. To the right, men and women look on at the crowds as they stand on a path outside the terraced houses.

  11. A blurry image of a man with glasses and grey hair looking at the camera

  12. Barry Dawson looks directly at the camera. He has a bald head and a hooped earring in his left ear lobe. He is smiling. Behind him, out of focus, are many people either queueing or waiting for something.

  13. A view of the Stadium of Light from Keel Crossing. It has brick barriers built in an undulating fashion, so they look almost like waves.

  14. An aerial photo of Durham City with the Cathedral and other buildings visible on land surrounded by a river. The leaves on the trees are turning orange and brown.

  15. Barry Dawson looks directly at the camera. He has a bald head and a hooped earring in his left ear lobe. He is smiling. Behind him, out of focus, are many people either queueing or waiting for something.

  16. A family walk through an attraction at Sunderland's Festival of Light. Trees are lit blue while dozens of ground-level lights look like red and pink flowers.

  17. Mugshot of Thomas Kwan. He is bald and clean shaven with thin framed glasses. He is wearing a light coloured striped shirt.

  18. Metro drivers Jon Doughty and Lesley Williams stood in front of a demolished train carriage.

  19. Finn Forster is singing into a microphone. He has short brown hair and is wearing a short-sleeved shirt. Stage lights are illuminating the performer in different colours.

  20. Sana el-Azab is sitting on a wall circling Durham Cathedral. She is smiling and is doing a peace sign with her hands.

  21. Steel sculpture of a Roman centurion soldier. Behind it is a tall white modern observation tower.

  22. An interior section of Durham Cathedral lit up red and purple on Tuesday 7 October 2025.

  23. A picture of one of the fields where the solar farm will be built. A metal fence has been erected around the field next to a row of hedges. A digger is parked in the field near to a white van and a pile of earth.

  24. The Reverend John Barron (left) wearing a traditional black shirt and dog collar and the Reverend Claire Cullingworth (right) wearing a multi-coloured knitted chunky cardigan. They are pictured with volunteers Denise Hall and Debbie Anderson between them, alongside the Map of Houghton at St Michael's and All Angels Church. The map is stitched on to a white fabric sheet.