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  1. An aerial view of the new bridge being positioned over the M6. It is a light grey with bright red supports underneath rolling it into place.

  2. Durham Police Federation chair Louise Guest has a brunette bob hair cut and brown eyes. She is wearing a beige blaze with a creme top. She stands in front of a navy spotted sign which is blurred in the background.

  3. A police car pulls in front of a black car in the dark on the road. It looks like the car has been boxed in to be stopped for checks.

  4. Two racers with running poles on snow, silhouetted against a bright backlight during nightfall.

  5. A white long-haired chihuahua on a blue sledge being pulled along the snow on a promenade by a woman with red hair in a long purple puffer coat. The beach is behind them and the sea looks calm. There is no snow on the beach. St Mary's Lighthouse, which is white, can be seen in the distance.

  6. Franny Benali smiling with his arms out as he looks at the camera wearing a Saints foundation t-shirt.

  7. Floating sheets of ice have formed along the top of a river. They have formed around the shallow rocks parts in the middle of the river. A stone building can be seen on the far bank.

  8. An aerial shot of the ruin of Furness Abbey. Large portions of the abbey are still intact and it is surrounded by woodland.

  9. Gabriella, aged 10, wears a turquoise coat and holds a tree planter wrapped in clear plastic. There a several planters behind her. She sits crouched in a green garden. She has long brown hair.

  10. A blond-haired man in a white hoodie is looking at a computer screen.

  11. Seven diggers are demolishing a bridge over the M6. A dust cloud is hanging over the construction site and vehicles are waiting to carry rubble away. The motorway can be seen either side of the pile of debris.

  12. The entrance to Furness General Hospital. A blue sign shows directions to different departments in front of a road heading down to the main entrance, above which is a sign containing the hospital's name. A white car and an ambulance are parked outside. Scaffolding sits on an upper part of the low, brick-built building.

  13. Carlisle Magistrates' Court is a long, two-storey stone building with an additional floor in the roof space. It has a small grey pointed turret in the middle behind a triangular frontage. From that central point, the building stretches out in a symmetrical manner. It has several leaded windows and a ramp to the central main entrance.

  14. The outside of Futamura Chemical UK Ltd factory site. There are large metal cylinders, a large vehicle with a circular carrier and other factory equipment attached to different parts of the building. There are empty parking spots in front of the factory.

  15. A woman sits in the driver's seat of the Ullswater Hopper. The silver minibus has blue and green branding painted in the back. The driver has short white hair and wears sunglasses and a blue polo shirt. She is smiling at the camera. The bus is parked in an area surrounded by green grass and trees.

  16. A small rural road flanked by freshly-trimmed hedges has cars queueing on one side of the road.

  17. Leading councillors and officers at Westmorland and Furness Council are sitting at a desk with microphones in front of them at a council meeting

  18. A climber wearing an orange jacket, helmet, and gloves ascends a frozen waterfall using two ice axes. A pink rope is clipped into their harness, and a red backpack rests on their back. The icy rock face is steep and rugged, with patches of exposed stone.

  19. A white sign saying HM Coroners Service Cumbria

  20. A worker wearing a black beanie and an orange high-vis uniform is working on the wires in a signalling box.

  21. Councillor Brian Wernham. He has short grey curly hair and trimmed beard. He wears glasses, a light blue shirt and and outdoor grey and blue jacket. The head-and-shoulders portrait was taken against a white background.

  22. Generic white police tape with the words 'police line do not cross' in blue

  23. A collection of abandoned equipment on the shore of a large lake. Tent poles and pegs gathered together in boxes on the pebbled ground. Trees surround the equipment.

  24. A man in orange high vis clothing and a black hard hat measures an area of brown soil on an excavation with a measuring tape