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  3. Full moon with a light-ish red tint. You can see the darker spots of the moon. Taken from Woodham in County Durham. The sky surrounding the moon is pitch black.

  4. Police and Crime Commissioner Joy Allen with Yasmin Khan standing inside an office with two other women.

  5. Chief the brown and black police dog trainee has his mouth wide open, tongue out, in a way that makes it look like he's smiling at the camera. He is in a room with a bright red floor, that is scuffed from use, and white walls with grey bricks lined up against the far wall.

  6. Charlton defender Conor Coady

  7. A pile of small, silver canisters of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, discarded on a patch of grass.

  8. Ben Houchen is smiling into the sun wearing a grey overcoat on top of a navy suit. He is smiling and a flat stretch of land can be seen behind him.

  9. A woman is looking at her grey laptop with an animatedly confused expression on her face. She has blonde hair which is held back by a head band and is wearing a brown t-shirt.

  10. Julie Griffiths is smiling at the camera. She has long blonde wavy hair and blue eyes. She is wearing a short-sleeved blue dress with a red Labour rosette and blue heart pendant necklace.

  11. Pick of the stats: QPR v Middlesbrough

    The QPR and Middlesbrough club badges side by side. The QPR ones shows the letters QPR entwined inside a circle on a blue background. The Middlesbrough badge shows a red lion rampant on a white background

    With this game being played on Sunday (16:30 GMT), Middlesbrough could find themselves outside the Championship's automatic promotion places if Ipswich beat Leicester on Saturday.

    QPR's only two wins in their past six league games have come against leaders Coventry and fifth-placed Hull City.

    • QPR have lost their past four league games against Middlesbrough but have never lost five in a row against Boro.

    • Middlesbrough have won on their past two league visits, having won just three of their first 26 visits beforehand between 1966 and 2022.

    • Since Christmas, only Sheffield Wednesday (0), West Brom (1) and Leicester (2) have won fewer Championship matches than QPR (3), who have lost their past two by an aggregate score of 7-0.

    • Middlesbrough have won nine away league games this season and are looking to reach double figures in a season for the ninth time – five of the previous eight have come this century (2011-12, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2018-19, 2023-24).

    • Middlesbrough defender Matt Targett scored twice in the first half of their 3-1 win over Birmingham on Monday, equalling his goals tally in his previous 74 league games combined.

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  12. Yaw Botwe and Khialah Wison standing talking on a street in Stockton

  13. An aerial view of the fields next to Levendale. A red border surrounds the area where the homes will be built, it includes three large empty fields and several with rows of greenery.

  14. The outside of Kirklevington Hall with a wide drive and a grass planter in the middle in front of a large two storey stone building.

  15. A graphic showing multiple images of Middlesbrough boss Kim Hellberg

  16. A thick, grey plume of smoke rises from a green, metal industrial warehouse. There is a fire engine parked out front and firefighters walking in front of the building.

  17. 'Game's gone' or 'everyone has something to play for'?

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    Earlier we asked what you make of the news that, from next season, the Championship play-offs will be expanded to include the teams finishing seventh and eighth?

    It was announced on Thursday morning that EFL clubs voted in favour of expanding the play-offs from four to six teams.

    Here's a selection of your comments...

    Josh, Derby: I don't believe this is necessary. I do think that the play-off format should be aligned throughout the top five leagues, but expanding isn't needed. Better distribution of the monies involved and establishing a clear matchday structure to balance various men's and women's leagues would be a better use of everyone's time. This strikes me undue American influence.

    Callum, Dartford: I think it's a good thing so teams can push for promotion that thought they wouldn't get near the play-offs.

    Cato, Sheffield: If we adopted it to this season, it means that eighth-placed Derby (on 51 points) have about as much a chance of going up as third-placed Millwall (on 63 points). Plus, to accommodate the extra games, would they extend the season into June? I don't like the idea of it at all, and I hope it's short-lived.

    Steve, London: Another example of football being ruined, week by week. Don't you dare think about implementing VAR too.

    Mark, Stafford: As a Stoke fan, I think it's good news. The season has come to a grinding halt due to being decimated by injuries. Add to that, the quality of what is coming down from the Premier League, it would mean upsets can happen and still allow teams in that mid-table race to dream of greater heights!

    Richard, Stansted: Absolutely ridiculous. What is the point of a league format if you are going to make it a bigger lottery to include even more teams at the end of the season? It also brings teams that are even less ready to actually be in the Premier League into scope. But mostly it's the undermining of the league format which makes no sense. I'm a Derby fan - and we look like we would have a chance of benefiting from this if it were in place this season.

    Andy, Nuneaton: Anything that expands the opportunities for those outside of the parachute teams is a good thing. We need to get away from this elite view of the Premier League. If it was up to them, they'd stop automatic promotion and relegation and have a system like Rugby Union, where it's based on meeting certain criteria. The eighth-placed club in the Championship getting to the PL? Bring it on!

    Ron, Hayling: Money, Money, Money. Players complain about the amount of games they play with the league games and cup competitions so the intention is to play even more at the end of the season. Owners will make some money but that's all that matters!

    Barry, Dartford: Yes it's a fantastic for everyone, all the small teams as well as the big boys, to have something to play for. It will give the end of the season something to look forward to.

    Benjamin, Poole: I'm a Charlton fan, so it's unlikely we'll come 8th in the Championship any time soon, however, this is ridiculous. More pandering to Americans to make it more likely they'll make money, which is the only thing they care about. Sporting integrity out of the window again. Shame as I felt the Championship was the last bastion of quality and integrity combined. Game has gone.

    Broughton, Derby: Absolute ridiculous, put it back to the old days of three straight up, no play-offs. If you don't make top-three you don't deserve to go up.

    Julian, London: The worst decision from a footballing point of view ever! The National League teams have been trying to change their system to be like the current EFL system so it seems a very strange decision for the EFL to take. You can finish 8th after 46 games and still get promoted - sporting integrity has been totally lost with this decision. Money over integrity every time!

  18. 🎧'Pressure ramps up in automatic promotion race'

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    Former Championship winger Jobi McAnuff says the victories Middlesbrough and Ipswich Town picked up earlier this week were "huge".

    Boro won 3-1 at Birmingham City on Monday night, while the Tractor Boys edged 1-0 past Hull City at Portman Road the following evening.

    It leaves second-placed Middlesbrough three points ahead of Ipswich, who are third but have a game in hand and a currently superior goal difference.

    "It was huge in terms of Middlesbrough just getting out of that mini slump after doing so well under Kim Hellberg," McAnuff told the BBC Football Daily 72+ podcast.

    "Losing what was a huge game at Coventry and then a couple of games against teams you would expect them to go and win that they weren't able to.

    "To go and pull off a result at St Andrew's which has been a real tough place for anyone to get results for a very long period of time, to be back in the goals, I think it was really important for them. Then it was over to you [Ipswich]."

    McAnuff, who played in the second tier for Reading, Watford and Crystal Palace, says the constant pendulum swing of results is "the beauty of this stage of the season".

    "That pressure definitely ramps up when the team you're challenging plays after and you've just got the three points," he added.

    "Again for Ipswich to find a way to win, Hull made it really tough for them. But what a strike from [Azor] Matusiwa.

    "When you've got that quality to unlock a game that looked as though it might have been drifting for a 0-0, it gives them a massive boost.

    "They [Ipswich] are the ones I've always thought they are coming with the quality they've got. They're flip-flopping Jack Clarke and Anis Mehmeti at the moment, it is ridiculous."

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  23. Kick-off change for Swansea's Easter game with Boro

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    Swansea City's Easter Monday Championship match against promotion-chasing Middlesbrough has been given a new kick-off time after being chosen for live coverage by Sky Sports.

    The match had originally been scheduled to start at 15:00 GMT on 6 April at the Swansea.com Stadium but will now move to the later time of 17:30.

    Boro won the reverse fixture 1-0 in August with Dael Fry scoring the goal.

  24. Dr Shaista Shirazi is standing and directly facing the camera with a slight smile on her face. The rolling hills of the countryside are behind her. She has long brown hair and is wearing a blue scarf and purple top.

  25. Hartlepool councillors sitting in rows at desks in a meeting chamber. There is a long desk on a podium at the top of the room, where the mayor sits. There is a lectern on the right side of the desk. Four TV screens are suspended from the ceiling.