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  1. Kieran Carter, a man in his late 20s with short, brown hair and a stubble beard. He is wearing a blue tartan shirt. He is stood in Newcastle's city centre near a metro station.

  2. Inside of a nightclub. The dance floor is packed full with people, and purple strobe lights shine down on them from the right and left. Above the dance floor is a screen that says 'EMPIRE' in white.

  3. Avarni-Mae being held by her dad Daniel, who is standing next to Chanelle. Avarni-Mae is looking down and is wearing pink pajamas with bows and has a blue dummy in her mouth. Daniel has grey, short hair and a dark beard. He is wearing a black t-shirt. Chanelle has brown long hair and is wearing a purple top. Both are looking into the camera and smiling. They are standing in a hospital room with a light blue wall.

  4. A red squirrel standing up leaning on a rock and looking into the camera. The background is blurred.

  5. A crowd of men on strike wave placards that carry messages such as "Not a penny off the workers' wages, not a penny tax on food".

  6. Lewis Smith stands in the sea bare-chested. He has his right arm raised with a thumbs up and is smiling. He has a gold chain around his neck.

  7. Claire Lewis is standing next to her partner Ged Mulheran holding a stab vest in front of them. They are in a garden with a fence behind them and both are wearing shorts and are in their 60s. She has ash blonde long hair, he is wearing a pink shirt and has a goaty beard and silver hair.

  8. Albie is wearing headphones and a grey sweatshirt with 'Hawkins Hitmaker' written on the front. He is standing behind a silver laptop and DJ decks and in front of a window and a closed shop front.

  9. A smiling Tom West is joining Newcastle Red Bulls from Northampton.

  10. A CGI of how the new development will look. The aerial image shows the Metrocentre surrounded by new offices and homes. The roofs are all green or covered in solar panels.

  11. Yasir Al-Rumayyan hugs Eddie Howe

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

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

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

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

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