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  1. A man and a woman stand in a workshop looking at a equipment while wearing goggles. They both have purple T-shirts on and equipment can be seen behind them.

  2. A man with short hair, a black shirt and jeans, with headphones around his neck, stands next to DJ decks.

  3. Three women in a row. The woman in the middle is holding an award in a frame and has short brown hair with blonde highlights. She is wearing a dark jacket. The woman on the left is wearing a dark uniform and has medals and has her blonde hair tied back. The third woman has her blonde hair tied back and is wearing a black police uniform and also has medals on her lapel.

  4. The image shows a historic canal-side industrial scene, likely part of an open‑air heritage site. The setting appears to recreate or preserve a 19th‑ or early 20th‑century working environment, with brick buildings and traditional transport.

  5. A mugshot of a woman with brown hair and wearing a dark top.

  6. A close-up of an elderly woman with short blonde hair and wearing a black coat.

  7. A wreath of poppies and an image of three soldiers and a Lest We Forget message

  8. A large queue of people waiting in an airport.

  9. Two people sit close together on a sofa in a living room, with drinks and snacks on a table in front of them.

  10. A mugshot of a man with short brown hair, stubble around his chin and a grey top.

  11. Jon Brady

  12. A black and white cat looks up towards the camera with long white whiskers.

  13. A man in glasses, wearing a burgundy jumper, has a rodent on his shoulder. The man is smiling at the camera

  14. The entrance to Alleyne's sports centre includes a road going from the bottom right to the left of the photo and a blue sign with white letters saying "Welcome to alleyne's sports centre".

  15. A mobility scooter parked on a grassed kerb

  16. Full rebuild on the way at Potters?

    Mark Elliott
    BBC Radio Stoke commentator

    Mark Robins puts his arm around Sorba Thomas as the pair walk infront of an advertising hoarding reading Good Times.Shutterstock

    Do good times lie ahead for Mark Robins and Stoke?

    Everything about this game screamed April.

    The wind blew a gale while the sun shone and the rain poured and a huge rainbow wrapped around the stadium.

    Amongst all of that Stoke played a game that felt meaningless but did shine a light on how much there is to address this summer.

    Of the team that started, Gavin Bazunu, Ashley Phillips and Jesurun Rak-Sakyi are on loan, Lewis Baker is out of contract in the summer and Ben Gibson, Ben Pearson, Million Manhoef and Sam Gallagher are about to enter the final year of theirs.

    The same can be said of first team regulars Victor Johansson, Junior Tchamadeu, Tatsuki Seko, Bae Junho and, assuming the club trigger an additional year built into his agreement, Ben Wilmot.

    Veterans Aaron Cresswell and Steven Nzonzi see their contracts end this summer too, bringing the total number of first team players who are tied to the club for 15 months or less to 15.

    If the club can't tie Johansson and Tchamadeu down to longer deals, they may have to sell them despite not wanting to.

    Decisions on the other players are more nuanced and complicated but Stoke would surely want a fee for players like Junho and Manhoef while they still retain value if either side in each case favours a parting of the ways.

    It looks like a full rebuild could be on the way once you consider that recent signings Maksym Talovierov, Tomas Rigo, Lamine Cisse, Robert Bozenik and Milan Smit who make up the bulk of the group tied to the club long term are all yet to convince manager Mark Robins of their ability to start and contribute consistently.

    Sorba Thomas and Bosun Lawal are probably the only two obviously key players signed until 2028.

    There is an opportunity within all this to add what Stoke have lacked this season. A clearer identity, attacking threat and greater physicality.

    Progress has been made this season with the current squad but it may be a very different group of players tasked with taking the club to the next level.

  17. A man dressed in a polar bear onesie and wearing a blue bib, and looking exhausted, raises his right fist up partially while running in the London Marathon.

  18. An aerial view of a large fire with flames and smoke coming out of a mill building in the middle of a town.

  19. Pink and red tulips spread out across the image with people visible walking around them in the distance.

  20. A black and white image of three soldiers. The man on the left and man in the middle are wearing army combat uniforms and the man on right is wearing a cap and ceremonial uniform with a shirt and tie.

  21. A building that appears to be fourth storeys high is on the left of the computer generated image. Another buildings are on the right and people are in the foreground - standing up or sitting.

  22. 'Only one team trying to win' - Robins

    Mark RobinsGetty Images

    Stoke are 15th in the Championship

    Stoke City manager Mark Robins told BBC Radio Stoke: "We started off not great because the conditions were really difficult.

    "I said before we had to be patient. Michael O'Neill was going to come and make sure Blackburn push every button they possibly can to make sure we frustrate the crowd because we don't move the ball enough.

    "We want to try and be brave. There are positional things that happen that don't feel comfortable, but you have to be uncomfortable at times.

    "First half, we didn't do enough, so we gave them some impetus. Their goal, we didn't get the press right at all, you've got to win your duels. Those are the non-negotiables.

    "What I was pleased about was we kept playing and we got the equaliser. I thought we were well worthy of it and were the only team trying to win it."

  23. Several knitted characters in brown overalls lift logs into the back of a lorry.

  24. Three images side-by-side - on the left, a young boy with dark blonde hair is smiling at the camera. He is wearing a dark navy shirt with a yellow logo on the breast in the shape of a stag's head; in the middle, a man and a woman are hugging whilst standing in a street. The woman is wearing a brown coat and the man is wearing a pink shirt and holding a piece of paper which has been styled to look like a cheque; on the right, a woman with blonde hair, wearing a white top and a scarf, smiles at the camera.
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