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  1. A headshot of Tina Ion. She has long brown hair and is wearing red lipstick.

  2. Alison Williams, a woman in her mid-60s with short, grey hair, holding a letter from the Civil Service Pensions Scheme informing her of delays to pension payments.

  3. Stock image of two police cars. One vehicle's bonnet is in the foreground of the photograph with the other car parked behind. They both have bright yellow liveries. The car in the background has its blue flashing lights switched on.

  4. An electric bike on its stand in a car park. It has a white and yellow livery and the words "SUR RON" printed near the seat. The wheels have a thick tread.

  5. Oli Spencer with both hands wrapped around the ball to his chest, wearing Newcastle's yellow away kit

  6. Jordan Orrock is smiling in the mirror for a selfie. He has short, but full, brown hair in a bowl cut and is wearing a blue shirt. He has short, brown facial hair and is holding his black phone in a way which obscures half of his face.

  7. Rubbish, including paper, clothes and white goods, is piled up around knee-high on a tarmac courtyard next to a white building. The area is bordered by tall trees. There are two white vans parked on the courtyard too.

  8. A composite image. In the top left, there is a yellow and black cubic metro sign on top of a pole. Top right, Trevor Burn, who is wearing glasses and a has short grey hair and a manicured beard and goatee. Bottom left is Lisa Crawford, who is also smiling at the camera. She has long brown hair and silver earrings. On the bottom right, Erica Barbosa is smiling at the camera. Her hair is tied back and she is wearing metallic glasses and a puffy brown coat pulled up high around the neck.

  9. Two black male grouse stand together in grassy moorland. The birds are very visually striking, with black/dark blue feathers, a white tail and red decorative eyebrows.

  10. File photo showing children in blue jumpers sitting at school desks. They are all blurry in the background, in the foreground is a box containing pencils and other school stationery.

  11. The Byker Wall in Newcastle. The estate is a long wall consisting of number a number of homes. Green balconies run along the building.

  12. The four lane road has a metal barrier running down the central reservation. The road, which is bordered by trees, has two slip roads coming off of it at an incline on either side. There are half a dozen cars in the distance.

  13. Tony Ridley standing under a sign for Northumberland Park Metro station in 2005. He has white hair and glasses. He is wearing a black rain coat, blue shirt and burgundy tie with blue and white dots. He is leaning on the frame of the sign and smiling. The frame is blue, with a yellow sign with the name of the station written in black.

  14. Runners in the Great North Run in 2024. Men and women wearing a variety of colourful tops and vests, running on a road.

  15. Chief Fire Officer Keith Carruthers and deputy chief Stephen Kennedy are standing with their arms behind their back and smiling brightly at the camera. There white and red fire service crest is mounted on the white wall behind them. They are both wearing dark blue fire service short sleeved button-up shirts with light blue name badges.

  16. Lynda Graves, who is wearing a black star-patterned shirt and a red and purple knitted scarf, stands in front of her new white boiler. It has been installed in her kitchen after the previous boiler became faulty leaving her without any heating or hot water.

  17. The motorway has six lanes with a grass strip and a small fence down the middle. There are about a dozen cars on the rod. The road is bordered by tall green trees.

  18. The garden, which was built on an empty plot next to Chillingham Road. It features improved pathways, curved benches, trees, planters for bushes and flowers, insect boxes, and talking tubes - play equipment which allows children to talk to each other at opposite ends of the garden. On the outer wall of a house facing the garden is a brightly coloured mural painted by artist Molly Bland, which features cartoon flowers, insects, and birds. The words "Growing Together" are painted at the bottom.

  19. Crook Coroner's Court is a multi story brown/cream brick building. A silver sign on the front reads: "Durham County Council".

  20. A Google Streetview screenshot of North Road outside the bus station in Durham. A double decker bus is travelling down the road on the right-hand side. The left side of the road has road markings for a bus stand all the way along it.

  21. An elderly man holding a wooden walking stick. The man is wearing a striped shirt and a red tie. His hands are wrinkled.

  22. Mugshot of Abbie Taylor. They have very short stubble on their chin and upper lip and have shoulder length wavy brown hair