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Young woman having a driving lesson. The instructor is gesturing to the right. The BBC Verify logo appears in the top right corner of the image

Three quarters of driving test centres at maximum wait time

BBC Verify finds that three quarters of British driving test centres have a 24-week wait to book a practical test.
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  1. An image of Elon Musk holding a chainsaw above his head at the conservative conference CPAC with the BBC Verify lozenge in the top left corner.

  2. BBC Verify reporter Merlyn Thomas standing in front of a map of Ukraine and Russa, with areas under Russian control highlighted in red

  3. Promotional image for the housing target tracker. There is a young couple in the middle looking at some paperwork. Around them are various images of details from buildings and stylised charts. The palette is predominantly orange.

  4. Wind turbines and electricity pylons are seen against a blue sky. The BBC Verify logo is in the top left hand corner.

  5. Young woman having a driving lesson. The instructor is gesturing to the right. The BBC Verify logo appears in the top right corner of the image

  6. Kilmar Ábrego García wearing a black shirt and a black hat, with a BBC Verify logo in the top left corner

  7. A bin worker putting a bin bag into an orange bin lorry. He is wearing red gloves, a green hat and an orange reflective jacket with Birmingham City Council written on the back of it. The BBC Verify logo appears in the top left corner of the image. Image taken in Birmingham on 11 April

  8. An image posted by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem showing rows of tents at Guantanamo Bay in February.

  9. Bins pile up in Birmingham, England following refuse worker strikes

  10. Composite image of BBC Verify's Olga Robinson sitting in front of a large BBC sign surrounded by anonymised documents

  11. Three screenshots on a purple background, taken from viral TikTok videos which claim luxury brands are making products in China

  12. British Steel staff standing in front of blast furnaces during Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner's visit to the site in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.

  13. President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping at a meeting in 2019. US and Chinese flags are visible in the background and the BBC Verify logo is in the top left corner. Trump and Xi are wearing dark suits, with pins representing their respective nations.

  14. On the right there's an image of Pete Belton holding his dog with his clock face tattoo on his arm visible, on the left is the same tattoo on a US Department of Homeland Security document

    15. President Trump holding up his right fist. He is pictured in front of a container ship. The BBC Verify logo is in the top left of the image.

    • A screengrab from the video of the incident in Gaza in which the Israeli army killed 15 emergency workers

      • President Trump forming a first with his right hand while holding his bicep with his left hand. Behind him is a group of American coalminers. The BBC Verify logo has been placed in the top left corner of the image.

      • Merlyn Thomas on the right; Ambulances on left

      • An aerial view image of the damage in the yard of a destroyed school, following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City

      • A greyscale image of US president Donald Trump with BBC News and BBC Verify branding

      • A graphic showing the formula used by the White House

      • Luigi Mangione sits in a courtroom wearing a bulletproof vest over a dark green jumper; he has curly dark hair

      • A reconstruction of what a collapsed 12-storey tower looked like before the Myanmar earthquake

      • A composite image that shows an AI-generated image on the left, and BBC reporter Olga Robinson on the right. The AI-generated image on the left shows an aerial view of destroyed buildings, claimed to be the from aftermath of the earthquake in Myanmar. There are several tall temples and palm trees along the landscape. In front is a road with damaged buildings and debris scattered around. The BBC Verify blue logo and a red label that reads AI generated are over the top. On the right hand side, BBC reporter Olga Robinson looks into the camera with a serious expression. She has light brown hair cut in a bob, and is wearing a black blouse with small red and white flowers.