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  1. The Byker Wall in Newcastle. The white and red building his triangular in shape with a jagged roof. The windows of the apartments can be seen.

  2. Pairs of wet socks hanging on a washing line. The washing line is red and the socks are being hung up with pink and blue pegs. Most of the socks are white with either yellow, pink. green or blue feet and ankles. One pair has pink and red hearts and one pair has green, pink and red stripes.

  3. A woman in a purple jacket stands in the doorway of 3 East Street. The address is home to the Okehampton Community Foodbank. Outside the premises is a table with boxes of vegetables on it. A man and a woman appear to be taking vegetables as part of a foodbank package.

  4. Trestle tables with crates of non-perishable foods. Cans and packets of pasta, fruit juices and milk.

  5. Gemma Douglas is holding a green plastic box full of food, there is bread, cabbage, steaks, milk and a box of tarts.

  6. A woman with a bob wearing a denim dress, hooped earrings standing in a blurred background shop.

  7. A stock image of a woman with short brown hair, wearing a green and white stripy top. She is sitting at a table holding bits of paper, which are being made to look like energy bills.

  8. Worried-looking couple looking at a laptop computer

  9. A greyhound wearing a red balaclava. In the background, Santa Claus is looking at him.

  10. Grampian Club

  11. Paris Theodorou is surrounded by balloons at the launch of Blanket Bank. He has short dark hair and a dark beard and wears glasses. He has a black hoodie on with the words "Blanket Bank" in a circle on it and stands behind a circle with writing about the bank on it. Either side are swirls of lilac, pink and white balloons and he stands in front of white doors.

  12. A general view of the temperature control of a radiator

  13. An elderly woman holds coins in her hands

  14. Five people are in a warehouse packing cardboard boxes. They are wearing blue high-vis vests. There are two men in the foreground and a woman who is smiling.

  15. Older woman sits in front of curtains looking at paperwork.

  16. Sharon Graham, General Secretary of Unite the Union leads a small protest in the exhibition hall against the cuts to winter fuel payments during the Labour Party Conference 2024.

  17. A close-up of hands being warmed at an electric heater. The heater is burning dep red, the person appears to be female and wearing a house coat. of indeterminate light colour.

  18. A man with short dark brown hair wearing rectangular glasses, a plaid shirt underneath a green hoodie standing in an office room.

  19. Emma - a woman with short brown hair has her head turned from the camera looking out the window as sun lights up her face. She is sitting down in a kitchen and is wearing a grey turtleneck jumper with large blue spots.

  20. Seven women stand around a table-football game in blue T'shirts holding cards that breakdown where the money is going, how many people are being helped and an amount of volunteering hours the building society is involved in

  21. People living in St Peter in Jersey have been approaching parish authorities for financial help.

  22. A hand adjusts a heating thermostat. The unit is a white square with a dial in the middle.

  23. A group of people queue up to take food from a hot food counter inside a building. The people on both sides of the counter are wearing red and white Santa hats. The building has a grey ceiling with several white spotlights.

  24. Taz Khan, a man with dark hair wearing a black gilet and t-shirt, stands in front of green trays of colourful produce and tinned food with his team in a warehouse