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  1. A person in a large bull costume with a white t-shirt doing a star jump in front of a square sign which reads Birmingham 2026, with the empty blue seats of a sports stadium in the background

  2. Birmingham skyline showing high-rise buildings. in the foreground is building work as part of the HS2 project

  3. Peter Kay is wearing a black polo shirt under a black jacket and smiling at the camera.

  4. Andy Reiss and Katie Leeming. Andy wears black-rimmed glasses, has short blonde hair and wears a white T-shirt. Katie has a pink baseball cap on and wears a beige jacketed over a white top. They sit in a room with blinds on the windows.

  5. On the right is a photo of the painting of the man on a brick wall as it looked before it was defaced, with the image on the left showing the painting after it was vandalised. Jeff Hall is depicted in grey and black and other bricks to the left and right of his head are green.

  6. Matt Gallagher sat in an electric wheelchair after a rugby game, posing with the team and his family

  7. Three men pictured in mug shots. Aldafin Poenaru has short black hair, dark stubble around his mouth ad wears a black and orange hood jacket. Sorin Condrache is bald and wears grey shirt, while Marian Agarlita has spikey black hair, a black moustache and black beard. He is wearing a black tshirt.

  8. A man in a white vest and with a small Chinese taijitu tattoo on his right shoulder smiling at the camera

  9. A composite of four custody images showing men from the shoulders up. They have dark hair and bears, are wearing grey T-shirts and are stood in front of a plain background.

  10. A red double decker bus, converted into a cancer hub, parked on a high street.

  11. Labour MP Jess Phillips in the studio wearing a black top, hands clenched together. Presenter Ed James also in the picture, wearing a blue blazer, glasses and both looking to the camera.

  12. The blue lights on top of a yellow ambulance vehicle.

  13. A young man in a baseball cap with black hooded jacket and blue shirt sat in a garden

  14. An image split into three, with each showing large amounts of cash stacked up. One of the images also shows gold bars, while another shows a green metallic bag. There is a West Midlands Police logo in the middle.

  15. A man smiling with his arms in the air celebrating. He is wearing sun glasses and a black vest top.

  16. Three boys lean on a fire engine in Coventry city centre

  17. Deago Martin, Keelan Brookes and Kaine Simmonds. The three men each have a straight face in front of a grey background. Martin has black hair and a patchy black beard. Brookes has short light brown hair and stubble. Simmonds has short dark hair and a thick dark beard.

  18. A black woman with long black hair sitting in a radio studio wearing headphones and talking into a microphone. She has black hair braids and is wearing a black top.

  19. Five men sat around a wooden square table smiling and holding pint glasses of beer or larger.

  20. Police custody images of Endrit Nikolli (left) with brown hair wearing a grey t-shirt and facial hair

  21. A composite image of a painting of a man on a brick wall against a blue back drop.

  22. A man with black hair, wearing a black hoodie, stands in front of a plain wall in a police mugshot.

  23. A stock photo of a police officer's handcuffs.

  24. Woakes with brown hair and a brown top is on the left of the photo. A field and other people are in the background, while trees and rooftops are in the distance.