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  1. Rita Grimshaw smiling while sitting with others at a table and looking at a lit candle. She has short black hair and is wearing a smart black top and silver necklace. There is a piano behind her in the room with white walls, that appear yellow in the candlelight.

  3. Randal pictured with a bin worker in Ingleby Barwick

  4. A huge pile of recycling waste made up of plastic in a warehouse. It spans the length of a wall.

  5. Boro 'in an unbelievable position'

    Hellberg: Boro 'weren't good enough to win'

    Kim Hellberg remained defiant after his Middlesbrough side again dropped points against a team battling relegation.

    Boro have played out two draws since Coventry regained top spot in the Championship by beating them.

    Having played out a goalless draw with Oxford United at the weekend, they drew 1-1 with Leicester at the Riverside Stadium.

    A win would have taken them level on points with Coventry, but they are six clear of third-placed Ipswich and Hull in fourth, so remain very much on course for promotion.

    Head coach Hellberg told BBC Radio Tees: "It makes it one loss in the last nine, but of course you want to win games. We weren't good enough to win today.

    "From the last two games we created a lot of opportunities but for us now the ball is not going into the net to win it.

    "But in those games we have two more points to our tally. We wanted more but that's done, so we have to work from it and keep improving.

    "You take points you get at this stage of the season and keep working. We're in an unbelievable position and we will keep working hard to keep it.

    "It was two good teams going at each other. They have a lot of quality and we have the same.

  6. Darlington Town Hall. The large rectangular building is made up of horizontal rows of grey panelling interspersed with windows. Two flags, including a Union Jack flag, are flying on flagpoles on either side of the entrance.

  7. Grangetown youth and community centre is visible on the left through some fencing behind a road. It has a sports pitch and there are hills in the background. It is a sunny day. There is a blue and a red shipping container in front of the building.

  8. A young white-tailed eagle is soaring through the sky with both wings outstretched.

  9. A large office block, six storeys high with lots of windows and bleak brown walls.

  10. Radio equipment

  11. A lane closure on Ladgate Lane in Middlesbrough. Red reflective cones have been placed along the lane while a blue sign with a white arrow directs people to travel on an adjacent one.

  12. Stockton Riverside fireworks display in 2013. Two large blue and pink fireworks erupt in the sky. Underneath them four smaller fireworks light up in streams. On the other side of the river thousands of people watch.

  13. A mugshot of Damien Bendall. He has short, shaved hair and a lightly grown beard and moustache. He has green eyes and is wearing a grey T-shirt.

  14. Work to do in final third - Hellberg

    Hellberg: Leicester 'have top-quality players'

    Ahead of Tuesday's visit of struggling Leicester, Kim Hellberg says Middlesbrough need to sharpen up in the final third

    Against Oxford United at the Riverside on Saturday Boro enjoyed nearly 75% of the possession and mustered 24 shots on the U's goal but had to settle for a point from a goalless draw to lose ground on leaders Coventry.

    While Boro have scored nine goals in their past six home games, conceding only once, eight of those goals came in two games against Southampton and Preston in January.

    After the frustration of Saturday, manager Hellberg told BBC Radio Tees: "It's good the games keep coming.

    "Almost every team we have played have ended up in a low block. We need to get better on it.

    "No Championship team has been in the opposition box as many times as we did against Oxford but we need to create more from it. If you look back it's unbelievable how many opportunities we should have.

    "In a normal game with some more quality maybe we could have scored four or five. We have won games at home with less opportunities than we had in this game.

    "We need to keep improving. We need to be better at putting the ball into the box from more narrow positions.

    "We need to keep working. For us it's key to hurt teams in different ways."

    Leicester are winless in eight games and sit in the bottom three thanks to a six-point deduction but stopped the rot after four straight defeats as they were pegged back to draw 2-2 at Stoke late on in Gary Rowett's first game in charge on Saturday.

    "I saw the game against Stoke," Hellberg, 38, said. "They have absolutely top-quality players who have played in the Premier League and Champions League. It's an unbelievable squad.

    "It's weird that they are so [low], though they have had the points deduction of course."

  15. Five women stand outside a court building. They are standing on steps and, as a result, are seen at different heights. Two are blond, three have dark hair and all their hair is about shoulder-length. They are all smartly dressed - four are wearing jackets (navy, cream, pink and grey) and one is wearing a black-and-white floral blouse.

  16. Pick of the stats: Middlesbrough v Leicester City

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    Middlesbrough will seek to get back to winning ways as they welcome beleaguered Leicester to the Riverside on Tuesday (19:45 GMT).

    Boro followed-up their defeat at Championship leaders Coventry with a goalless draw at home to second-bottom Oxford United on Saturday to lie three points behind the Sky Blues at the summit, though with a six-point advantage over third-placed Millwall.

    The Foxes remain in the bottom-three, a point adrift of West Brom, after being pegged back to draw 2-2 at Stoke on Saturday, though it ended a run of four straight league defeats.

    City remain winless in seven Championship games on the road since early December, however.

    • Having been winless in 14 league games against Leicester between 2003 and 2017 (D8 L6), Middlesbrough have now won two of their past three against the Foxes (D1).

    • Leicester have only lost two of their 13 league games against Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium (W6 D5), though one of these was their most recent visit in November 2023.

    • Middlesbrough are unbeaten in their past five league games against Leicester (W2 D3), last having a longer run between 1930 and 1934 (9 games).

    • Middlesbrough have alternated between defeat (2) and victory (2) in their past four midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) league games, beating Stoke City 2-1 last time out.

    • Leicester are winless in their past 12 midweek (Tues, Weds, Thurs) league games (D4 L8), alternating between a draw and a defeat in their eight in the Championship this season.

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  17. Peter Moss is looking directly into the camera and is smiling. He is wearing a grey hat, green fleece and a black overcoat. There is a grey vehicle behind him.

  18. Lesley and Robin Perkins looking into the camera with a black and white photograph of Dan behind them in a large frame. Lesley is on the left and has a slight smile. She has blonde hair which hangs around her chin and is wearing a black top. Robin is on the right and has grey hair and a goatee. He is wearing a brown, yellow and white checked shirt with the top buttons open revealing a tattoo on his upper chest and has his hands behind his back.

  19. A large amount of cables and cable sleeving coloured orange, grey, black and red have been dumped on a country road. There is other waste that has been dumped in the background.

  20. A fossil which looks like a stone that appears to have teeth

  21. Radio equipment

  22. A crowd of runners in different coloured running vests running down a hill. There are spectators lining either side of them. They are on a grassy bank which is lined with leafless trees in the background.

  23. A children's playpark which has a section cordoned off with red traffic cones, red plastic gating and red and white taping. The gating is placed over two holes in the ground where trampolines once were.

  24. Boro miss opportunity against resilient U's

    Nathan Albon
    5 Live Sport reporter at the Riverside

    Middlesbrough's Callum Brittain takes on Oxford's Jin Woo JeonGetty Images

    As the gulls swooped around the Riverside looking for tasty morsels… there were no such delights for Middlesbrough today.

    Real sense of opportunity missed as second from top played second from bottom.

    Oxford clung on at times, but came with a clear gameplan. They came on the team bus, and they parked that bus… Blocks, tackles, clearances, the lot.

    And they were a threat on the break - twice hitting the woodwork through Stanley Mills and Myles Peart-Harris in the first half.

    So Oxford drag themselves closer to safety, but they're still five points adrift.

    And Middlesbrough, who were two points clear before losing to Coventry on Monday, now find themselves winless in two and three points behind the leaders

  25. Hellberg wants to move on quickly from Oxford draw

    Hellberg: 'It wasn't our day' v Oxford United

    Middlesbrough boss Kim Hellberg refused to dwell on the disappointment of being held at home to relegation-threatened Oxford United.

    Boro missed the chance to close the gap on leaders Coventry as they drew 0-0 with Oxford, who hit the woodwork twice in the first half.

    Hellberg told BBC Radio Tees: "We knew that was going to be the game. If we score early, it could open up a little bit. We didn't, they had some chances in the first half, they could have scored.

    "We had some chances through the game, especially in the second half.

    "At the end it's 0-0, there's no goal, you have to take the point and move on.

    "This is the part when you play against these teams when they defend with their heart all the time.

    "We should have scored, that's how it is, but we didn't. It's one point to add to the tally and we keep moving on."

    Boro, who are three points off the league leaders with a six-point gap to Millwall in third, host another relegation-threatened side in Leicester City on Tuesday