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  1. Two grey caddies with handles and lids in front of three household bins for garden waste, recycling and regular waste.

  2. 🎧 Will Ipswich pip Boro for Championship promotion?

    The Championship top six as of 26 February and Middlesbrough's Morgan Whittaker challenging with Ipswich defender Leif Davis when the two sides met in October 2025Shutterstock

    Former Championship winger Jobi McAnuff believes Ipswich Town will win automatic promotion to the Premier League at the expense of Middlesbrough.

    The Tractor Boys are six points behind second-placed Boro with two games in hand, while Millwall are four points back in third, having played the same number of matches as the top two.

    Kim Hellberg's side have gone three games without a win, losing 3-1 to leaders Coventry before drawing at home to relegation-threatened Oxford and Leicester.

    "I was really keen to see how they reacted to that [defeat by Coventry] because they were in such good form going into that game playing some brilliant football," McAnuff told the Football Daily 72+ EFL podcast.

    "What you want to do after what was a disappointing result is get back on that winning run as quickly as you can, particularly with the situation and Ipswich lurking with a couple of games in hand."

    McAnuff says Ipswich have resources that "other clubs do not have" with the ability to bring striker George Hirst off the bench and sign players such as Anis Mehmeti and Dan Neil in January.

    "I just feel that over the course of the whole season, that will come to fruition for them," said McAnuff, who won the Championship with Reading in 2011-12.

    "You talk about the manager [Kieran McKenna], so calm, he's someone who has been there, he's got promotion from the league.

    "I think he is going to have a huge part to play and that then also radiates through the dressing room.

    "For him and Ipswich Town, that is what is going to get them over the line. I believe they will be in the top two. I genuinely do believe that."

    When asked who would drop out of the top two, McAnuff added: "I'm going to say Middlesbrough. As much as performances have been okay the last couple of games, I do think they have a little bit of an issue breaking down teams where they sit deep."

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  3. Redcar and Cleveland Council's headquarters photographed from high up. There are three, interlinked square brown buildings. They are clad with the two on either side containing large glass frontages. The middle building, which sits back slightly from the other two, has a large area of wood-effect cladding with windows in the front separated by long, thin white pillars. In front stand three large flagpoles flying the flags of, left to right, the United Kingdom, Ukraine and the council's crest in gold on a blue background.

  4. A large circle of trampled and dead grass in the middle of a graveyard. The grass is yellowed and thinned. Headstones can be seen around the edges and a church in the background.

  5. The headquarters of Durham Police is a three-storey white building mostly made of glass. It is surrounded by a small landscaped area.

  6. The coast at Horden in County Durham. A small patch of pavement and road runs in a strip in the foreground, with a slightly tattered, red-brick building to the left and a patch of grass and trees in green leaf to the right. Beyond the trees, barely visible through the leaves, are some red-brick terraced houses. Beyond those is a thin strip of sand with the North Sea behind it.

  7. National League sign

  8. An illegal fly-tip at Memorial Park, South Moor, in Stanley, where large items such as kitchenware and sports equipment have been discarded in the park's bushes. It is an eye-sore as the rubbish has been left in the decorative bushes.

  9. The headquarters of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, which is based at Teesside Airport. The entrance has wooden panels and a glass fronted entrance.

  10. Sam Garside - Middlesbrough Council's Environmental Sustainability Manager. She has blonde hair tied back and is in the radio studio talking into a microphone and wearing headphones.

  11. Boro 'not in sticky spot' despite blip - Hackney

    Middlesbrough captain Hayden Hackney says they need to be sharper and "almost force the ball in" to avoid dropping further points in their bid for automatic promotion.

    Boro are without a win in their past three Championship games following the defeat at Coventry and back-to-back home draws against Oxford and Leicester, having won six on the bounce before this recent mini blip.

    Tuesday night's 1-1 draw with the Foxes was the second time in four days Kim Hellberg's side have failed to beat a side in the relegation zone at the Riverside.

    It means Boro now sit two points behind leaders Coventry, who visit Sheffield United on Wednesday, while third-placed Ipswich are six points behind but have two games in hand.

    "That's the word, frustration," Hackney told BBC Radio Tees.

    "Maybe [we need] something falling for us inside the box, getting that half a yard to finish. Maybe [opposition teams] are sitting off a little bit more, a little bit deeper in the low block.

    "But I think it's just our sharpness and maybe what's fallen for us in the last couple of games where the run into the box would be found by the assist.

    "I know it sounds easy but maybe that - and having shots and deflections maybe fall your way."

    The 23-year-old midfielder does not think Middlesbrough are in a "sticky spot" and says it is "definitely not a lack of effort from the lads".

    "They're all giving 100%," he added. "I think it's just touching up on those areas in the final third, which we will do. We'll look back at that and try and improve."

  12. Rita Grimshaw smiling while sitting with others at a table and looking at a lit candle. She has short black hair and is wearing a smart black top and silver necklace. There is a piano behind her in the room with white walls, that appear yellow in the candlelight.

  13. Randal pictured with a bin worker in Ingleby Barwick

  14. A huge pile of recycling waste made up of plastic in a warehouse. It spans the length of a wall.

  15. Boro 'in an unbelievable position'

    Hellberg: Boro 'weren't good enough to win'

    Kim Hellberg remained defiant after his Middlesbrough side again dropped points against a team battling relegation.

    Boro have played out two draws since Coventry regained top spot in the Championship by beating them.

    Having played out a goalless draw with Oxford United at the weekend, they drew 1-1 with Leicester at the Riverside Stadium.

    A win would have taken them level on points with Coventry, but they are six clear of third-placed Ipswich and Hull in fourth, so remain very much on course for promotion.

    Head coach Hellberg told BBC Radio Tees: "It makes it one loss in the last nine, but of course you want to win games. We weren't good enough to win today.

    "From the last two games we created a lot of opportunities but for us now the ball is not going into the net to win it.

    "But in those games we have two more points to our tally. We wanted more but that's done, so we have to work from it and keep improving.

    "You take points you get at this stage of the season and keep working. We're in an unbelievable position and we will keep working hard to keep it.

    "It was two good teams going at each other. They have a lot of quality and we have the same.

  16. Darlington Town Hall. The large rectangular building is made up of horizontal rows of grey panelling interspersed with windows. Two flags, including a Union Jack flag, are flying on flagpoles on either side of the entrance.

  17. Grangetown youth and community centre is visible on the left through some fencing behind a road. It has a sports pitch and there are hills in the background. It is a sunny day. There is a blue and a red shipping container in front of the building.

  18. A young white-tailed eagle is soaring through the sky with both wings outstretched.

  19. A large office block, six storeys high with lots of windows and bleak brown walls.

  20. A lane closure on Ladgate Lane in Middlesbrough. Red reflective cones have been placed along the lane while a blue sign with a white arrow directs people to travel on an adjacent one.

  21. Stockton Riverside fireworks display in 2013. Two large blue and pink fireworks erupt in the sky. Underneath them four smaller fireworks light up in streams. On the other side of the river thousands of people watch.

  22. A mugshot of Damien Bendall. He has short, shaved hair and a lightly grown beard and moustache. He has green eyes and is wearing a grey T-shirt.