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  1. A close-up of the Staffordshire Police badge on the side of a building. It is a several-pointed star with a round circle in the middle.

  2. A Google street view image of a main road with a large green sign on the left denoting a roundabout. Cars can be seen driving both ways.

  3. A general view of the the front entrance and courtyard outside Stafford Crown Court. The building has a rounded corner of red brick with the words "Crown Court" and "County Court" on it, underneath a metal sculpture of the monarch's crest.

  4. A woman holding a black and white racing flag and a football shirt stands in the stands of a large stadium. A football pitch can be seen behind her.

  5. A vehicle lifts up a metal statue of a steel worker with its crane. A worker can be seen operating the crane on the right.

  6. A cordon in place and several police vehicles parked at the entrance to a railway station's car park.

  7. A school classroom, with a close-up of a stationary pot full of pens, scissors, pencils etc. The background, which is blurred, shows pupil with blue tops sitting at their desks.

  8. Port Vale players celebrate their goal against Sunderland in front of a TV camera operator

  9. Pick of the stats: Stoke City v Ipswich Town

    The Stoke City and Ipswich Town club badges side by side. Stoke's has red and white stripes with the words Stoke City at the top and 1863 at the bottom. Ipswich have a horse with a hoof on a ball drawn in white on a blue background

    Ipswich have slipped five points behind the automatic promotion places in the Championship but have taken 10 points from a possible 12 in their past four matches.

    Stoke have managed only five points from their past six outings with their solitary win coming against Oxford which means they are now 10 points short of the top six going into this game on Tuesday (20:00 GMT).

    • Stoke have failed to score in their past three league games against Ipswich (D1 L2), with their two defeats in that run as many as they had suffered in their previous 16 against the Tractor Boys.

    • Following their 1-0 win in December, Ipswich are looking to complete the league double over Stoke for the first time since 1987-88.

    • Stoke won 2-1 against Oxford in their last home league game, but have not won consecutively at the bet365 Stadium since November.

    • Ipswich have alternated between victory (3) and defeat (2) in their past five away league games, beating Watford 2-0 last time out.

    • Stoke boss Mark Robins has lost each of his past five Championship games against Ipswich Town – twice with Huddersfield (2013-14), twice with Coventry (2023-24) and earlier this season with the Potters.

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  10. A man in a pink hoodie stood in front of a brown bottle kiln. He's wearing a short and blue and white apron

  11. An old grainy picture of a man and woman doing ballroom dancing in front of a crowd.

  12. A38 motorway with cars on the road, with a grass verge to the left and a sign saying Birmingham A38 with directions to M6 toll, Brownhills (A5), Burton and Derby (A38)

  13. Police cars and a police van and cordon outside the station. At the front of the picture, a police car with blue and yellow markings is positioned and there are traffic cones on the ground. Four police officers are also in the picture.

  14. 'Dreadful run of injuries decisive in Stoke decline'

    Mark Elliott
    BBC Radio Stoke commentator

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    "Here we go again," lamented Mark Robins as Stoke picked up more injuries in South Wales.

    Eric Bocat is their only fit left-back and left the game, as did captain Ben Wilmot.

    Junior Tchamadeu did return after a lengthy spell on the sidelines but by the time he came on as a second-half substitute, the game was slipping away.

    The red card Sorba Thomas received in the first half was key but Stoke conceded two poor goals and continue to slide down the table.

    It will take all of Robins' experience to turn around a run of results that's seen them take just 20 points from 22 league games since earning 27 from their first 14.

    That's almost half a season averaging less than a point a game, which can be classed as relegation form in most seasons.

    The start to the campaign showed what Stoke can be and a dreadful run of injuries has certainly been a decisive factor in their decline.

    Having said that, performance levels have dropped below what's required too often and injuries were not at fault for Zan Vipotnik's easy header from a Swansea corner that gave them the lead.

    He is the danger man and the situation should have been defended better.

    Injuries can't be blamed for some poor decision-making and execution in the final third either, an all too common theme this season.

    Stoke have been really unlucky with the injuries and the luck they've had in some of those 22 games but that isn't the whole story.

  15. A branch with the words Lloyds Bank in white above the entrance. A cash machine is on the left and there are doors in the middle.

  16. New Road cricket ground home to Worcestershire County Cricket Club which was flooded in Worcester on 9 February 2026.

  17. A black and white picture of a man, wearing a black t shirt and trousers, standing with his hands in his pocket. Behind him is an old pottery site - on the right is a bottle kiln and on the left are brick buildings.

  18. Robins laments lack of finishing touch

    Robins: ‘Just really disappointing’

    Stoke manager Mark Robins lamented his side's lack of a finishing touch in their 2-0 defeat by Swansea.

    Eric Bocat and Ashley Phillips were both denied, with Ben Wilmot seeing a goal chalked off for an offside, before the 10-man Potters conceded twice to return to Staffordshire empty-handed.

    Robins told BBC Radio Stoke: "We had two unbelievably good chances to get our noses in front. We've got to take those chances and then we had a goal disallowed.

    "Then it's compounded by Sorba having a yellow card that didn't look like one – how can you be penalised for trying to take a shot mid-air and somebody putting their head down?

    "That put him on a tightrope and then, for all the good he has done, that loss of discipline can't happen if that was a kick out. He has given the game away.

    "The goal that we conceded was really poor but we still carried a threat right up until the end. We need to lick our wounds ready for the game [against Ipswich] on Tuesday."

  19. A white football with black panels on grass, with a goal net in the background

  20. A38 motorway with cars on the road, with a grass verge to the left and a sign saying Birmingham A38 with directions to M6 toll, Brownhills (A5), Burton and Derby (A38)

  21. A view from above of train tracks coming in and out of Birmingham New Street. The tracks are empty with no passengers on the platforms. A large cylinder-shaped building is seen in the distance with other retail and leisure buildings around the station.

  22. Chris Large standing outside a council building wearing a grey suit, white shirt and striped tie. He has short grey and black hair

  23. A man with brown hair and facial hair is smiling and holding up a small lego build of a blonde woman sitting at a desk in a radio studio in front of a microphone. He is standing in front of a purple background with the BBC Radio Stoke logo in white writing

  24. A composite image for the West Midlands Quiz on 7 March, showing Cillian Murphy, Andy Warhol and specialist cleaner Iain Watson.