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  1. Pick of the stats: Middlesbrough v Preston

    The club badges of Middlesbrough and Preston side by side

    Middlesbrough have the chance to cut Coventry's lead to three points with a win over Preston on Saturday (12:30 GMT).

    Boro are looking to record four successive league wins for the second time this season.

    Preston's promotion challenge is wobbling on the back of successive home defeats by Derby and Hull City in which they have failed to score but they did win their last away game, 2-0 at Bristol City.

    • Middlesbrough are unbeaten across their past three home league games against Preston North End (W2 D1), netting nine goals in those matches. Since the start of 2022-23, it is the most goals they've scored on home soil against any side in the Championship.

    • Preston North End are unbeaten across their past four league games against Middlesbrough (W2 D2), while they last enjoyed a longer unbeaten run in this fixture between December 1951 and December 1953 (five games).

    • Following a 4-0 win against Southampton earlier this month, Middlesbrough are looking to record a clean sheet in consecutive home league games for the first time since their first two at the Riverside this season.

    • Preston have lost their past two league games, though both have come at home. They last lost more consecutively in April last season (4).

    • Morgan Whittaker has scored six goals in 12 home league appearances for Middlesbrough this season. That is at least three times as many as any of his team-mates at the Riverside (two for David Strelec, Hayden Hackney, Tommy Conway and Dael Fry).

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  3. Wes Streeting is smiling and dressed in a navy suit with a light blue shirt and maroon tie. His short brown hair is neatly combed back from his face.

  4. Inside the cab of a North East Ambulance Service vehicle. The paramedic in the passenger seat is speaking into a walkie talkie mounted on his shoulder. He is wearing a green paramedic uniform. A second paramedic on the driver side of the cab also wearing a green paramedic uniform is looking down to the back of the cab.

  5. A green double decker bus is parked up, with its lights on, inside a stadium. People are standing around admiring it. The words "Go Electric 26" are projected onto the side.

  7. Browne 'constantly learning' under boss Hellberg

    Browne: Boro 'had to dig deep' against Stoke

    Middlesbrough midfielder Alan Browne said he is "constantly learning" since being asked to play at right-back in his past three appearances by head coach Kim Hellberg.

    The Republic of Ireland international scored his second Boro goal as they regained second place in the Championship with a 2-1 win at Stoke City on Wednesday evening.

    "Obviously, I want to get back in the middle. That's where I think I'm best and where I want to play, but I'm happy to do a job for the team wherever that may be, so I've got to enjoy it and learn as much as I can in that position," the 30-year-old told BBC Radio Tees.

    "It's great playing under this manager because although you're playing full-back you find yourself in really good areas where you might also find yourself as a midfielder, so I'm constantly learning and hopefully improving every week."

    Middlesbrough had to come from a goal down in the Potteries with Browne equalising just after the interval before Tommy Conway scored the winner.

    "It was brilliant, quite tiring towards the end, but we did what we had to - showed great character in coming from a goal down away from home," Browne said.

    "We stayed calm at difficult times, stuck together, played our own football, and thankfully in the end prevailed."

    Middlesbrough host sixth-placed Preston North End on Saturday (12:30 GMT).

  8. The crenelated tower of St Cuthbert's Church emerging over a tree. The roof of the main body of the church can also be seen.

  9. Shotton Hall, where Peterlee Town Council is based, is a two-storey white building surrounded by hedges and grassland. Flower pots are hanging between the windows on the ground floor. There is a wooden bench near the building.

  10. 'We have to focus on ourselves' - Hellberg

    Middlesbrough manager Kim Hellberg celebrates the win at StokeGetty Images

    Middlesbrough manager Kim Hellberg praised his side's second-half showing as they followed up a win at West Brom last Friday with three points at Stoke.

    Alan Browne scored one and made the winner for Tommy Conway as Boro went back into the top two in the Championship.

    Hellberg told BBC Tees: "It was a terrible first 25 minutes, the worst kind of play, not being brave in your position - but in the second half we had a different attitude and turned the game around.

    "I felt we were not sharp, but that's life sometimes. We woke them up at half-time and it was a different story, we were strong.

    "We have to focus on ourselves. This period of the season is tough but we have six points from two away games and have scored five goals."

  11. Middlesbrough forward Tommy Conway

  12. An architect's digital art designs for the modernised bus depot. It is a three-storey building, with lots of glass windows. The majority of the building is black, with some brown decorative accents. There is also some greenery at the base of the corner of the building.

  13. A car is halfway on the pavement as it drives along past queuing traffic

  14. A composite image showing the faces of Christie Harnett, Nadia Sharif and Emily Moore. Miss Harness has shoulder-length auburn hair and blue eyes. She is smiling at the camera. Miss Sharif has long dark hair and brown eyes. She is looking at the camera, posing with a neutral expression. Miss Moore has long light brown hair with a side parting and brown eyes. She smiles at the camera.

  15. Daniel Ambler, a 23-year-old man with short dark hair, wearing spectacles and a grey hoodie. He is standing in what looks like a living room. There is pink and grey wallpaper on the wall behind him.

  16. Gerhard Struber wearing a Bristol City bobble hat and coat and clapping his hands while walking on the pitch at the end of the match with Ipswich

  17. EFL games to kick off late for CPR awareness

    Bristol Rovers defender Tom Lockyer wearing an Every Minute Matters t-shirt in the warm-up before a gameShutterstock

    Tom Lockyer suffered a cardiac arrest while playing for Luton Town in December 2023

    All English Football League games across a four-day period in February will begin one minute late to raise awareness for the Every Minute Matters campaign.

    The initiative will be in place for 36 matches across the Championship, League One and League Two between 5 and 9 February.

    EFL sponsor Sky Bet and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) have been working together since May 2024 to highlight the importance of speed when it comes to performing live-saving CPR.

    Later kick-off times will serve as "a stark reminder that every minute matters", the EFL said.

    Bristol Rovers defender Tom Lockyer collapsed while playing for Luton Town eight minutes into the Championship play-off final against Coventry in May 2023.

    Lockyer then suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch seven months later during a Premier League game at Bournemouth.

    "What happened to me can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time," said Lockyer, who is now a BHF ambassador.

    "Every year, more than 40,000 people in the UK suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and most of them never make it home.

    "I'm here today because of the transformative power of CPR as every minute matters when it comes to saving a life.

    "This February, we want everyone to get behind this life-saving initiative, learn the skills and be ready to step in because your actions could give someone else the chance I was given."

    Throughout February, the Every Minute Matters campaign will call on fans to learn CPR using the BHF's online RevivR tool.

    "Each minute without CPR reduces a person's chance of survival, so we're urging fans to learn the skills now, before you ever need them," said Dr Charmaine Griffiths, chief executive of the BHF.

    EFL chief executive officer Trevor Birch added: "The one minute kick-off adjustment is a simple, powerful reminder that swift CPR can be the difference between life and death."

  18. Signs showing the symbols for men's and women's facilities

  19. An aerial view of the pews inside St Cuthbert's Church in Darlington. The pews are a deep brown inside the stone archways of the church. The church is lit by warm lights high on the walls.

  20. Runner Anna Troup during the Spine Race. There is a blue-ish wash on the photo, which depicts Anna mid-running in rainy conditions. She is wearing a blue waterproof and a navy headband and a headtorch.

  21. Green and pink lights covering the night sky above a beach. The pink looks like it is lying on top of the green in the sky. Stars can be seen underneath the lights. A house can be seen in the distance. The sea is calm with a low tide and stones covering the shoreline.

  22. A street view of a brick, one-storey building with a white roof that overhangs the front door area, which has a shut roller-blind, and is held up by green poles. There are parking spaces in front of the building and trees and a field beyond.

  23. Hemawand Ali Hussein smiling into the camera. He is sat in a car with black seats and is wearing a black cap and t-shirt.

  24. A yellow defibrillator which has been kicked off the wall and as hanging by a wire.

  25. Geoff Swainston is standing next to a car on a busy street. He has short white hair and is wearing a thick grey coat over a grey sweater.
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