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  1. Temporary Chief Inspector Greg Owens. He has a dark short beard and his brown hair is styled-into a mohawk.

  3. Three primary school children - two girls and a boy - are wearing blue uniform hoodies and sitting reading a picture book with a beige-furred, human-sized cuddly toy bear in a school library. Beside them is a bookshelf and on the wall behind them is a mural of Winnie the Pooh in a green-grassed forest with trees.

  4. 'Unbelievable game of football' - Hellberg

    Kim Hellberg celebrates at the end of Middlesbrough's win over Sheffield United Shutterstock

    Kim Hellberg has won 10 of 14 Championship games with Middlesbrough

    Middlesbrough head coach Kim Hellberg described it as "unbelievable game of football" after their win at Sheffield United took them top of the Championship.

    Goals from Tommy Conway and Riley in the first half made it six straight league successes for Boro as they leapfrogged Coventry City at the top, with the two sides meeting at the CBS Arena next Monday.

    "The whole game was an unbelievable game of football. Two teams going at each other, two teams trying to be offensive, everything I love about football," Hellberg said.

    "After the first 10 minutes, our players were unbelievably balanced in taking the ball forward at the first opportunity, finding combinations, creating a lot of chances and we could have scored even more.

    "Against such a good team, the first half was brilliant. That performance here underlines how impressive it was from the players.

    "Of course, it's a big night. A very tough opponent away from home so those type of results to win six in a row in very different ways is impressive from the group."

  5. An aerial view of the quarry. It is a roughly rectangular light tan-coloured area surrounded by fields. A few buildings are to the left of the quarry and a large number of houses are to the right.

  6. Riley McGree celebrates scoring

  7. Pick of the stats: Sheffield United v Middlesbrough

    Side-by-side of Sheffield United and Middlesbrough club badges

    Middlesbrough could rise to the top of the table should they defeat hosts Sheffield United on Monday (20:01 GMT).

    Coventry's goalless draw to Oxford on Saturday afternoon means that Boro can retake their place at the apex with a victory, having previously been kept off the top spot by goal difference.

    But the Blades are undefeated across their past three games (W2 D1) and are proving to be difficult to beat on home soil in recent times.

    • Sheffield United have won seven of their last nine home league games against Middlesbrough, losing the others in April 2011 and February 2023.

    • Middlesbrough have won three of their last four league games against Sheffield United (L1), and are looking to complete the double over them for the first time since 2010-11.

    • Sheffield United have won each of their last four home league games, netting three goals in each match. They last won five in a row at Bramall Lane while scoring 3+ goals each time between April/August 1971.

    • Middlesbrough have won each of their last five league games, last having a longer run in September/October 2023 under Michael Carrick (6).

    • Sheffield United's Andre Brooks has scored in each of his last three league games. He'd only scored in four of his first 66 league appearances for the Blades.

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  8. Hartlepool appoint ex-defender Liddle as coach

    Gary Liddle looks on during a Hartlepool United match earlier this seasonGetty Images

    Hartlepool United have appointed former defender Gary Liddle as first team coach to strengthen manager Nicky Featherstone's backroom staff.

    The 39-year-old made 364 senior appearances for Pools over three spells with the club and helped them to promotion from the National League through the play-offs in 2021.

    Liddle, who has also worked in Hartlepool's academy as a lead professional development phase coach, has left his position as manager of Northern Premier League side Whitby Town in order to take on the role.

    "I know this club extremely well and a large part of my adult and football life has been spent here, so it means a great deal to me," Liddle said.

    "It's been great to be back around the club again through my work in the academy and now I want to help Nicky take the first team to where we believe it should be."

  9. Faith Khan is looking at her computer screen whilst smiling. She has long dark hair. The foreground is blurred but another woman can just be made out from behind. She has her hand to her face while watching Khan.

  10. Close up of sign on a hospital which reads in all caps, Royal Victoria Infirmary. There is a blue logo above it made up of the initials RVI. It is on dark cladding next to light blue panelling. The building looks futuristic.

  11. drone view of a modern multi-storey black building at the left of a pedestrian plaza with rows of shrubs and other multi-storey buildings and an old church in the background

  12. Gordon Giltrap is playing a guitar under a spotlight with other guitars on stands next to him. A packed audience can be seen in the dark beyond the stage sat on church pews.

  13. A streetview of Borough Road in Middlesbrough. There are terraced houses on the left with a large sign reading Borough Road/ Marton Road Junction. Cars are parked at traffic lights down the street.

  14. Brown takeaway coffee cup filled to the brim with coffee. The top froth has a caramel coloured swirl to it and a paler pattern drawn through it

  15. A raindrop threatens to fall off the snowdrop flower petals in the foreground. Out of focus in the background are more white snowdrops and a set of gravestones.

  16. Cockton Hill Recreation Ground is a large, grassy field behind a black metal fence. There is a black bin in the foreground and a children's play park further back. In the distance to the left, there is a single storey brick building.

  17. Joy Allen standing in front of a blue and white Durham Police sign. She has a blonde, collar-length bob with a fringe and is wearing a red blazer with black top.

  18. National League ground

  19. A view of the hedgerow and sign on the A68 with a sign pointing to Heighington in one mile.

  20. Non-League commentaries graphic

  21. An outside view of St John Church in Darlington with a pink blossom tree on the right next to the building.

  22. A brown and white spaniel dog is standing side on in a huge puddle on a path. It is looking down into the water as if sniffing the surface and has its long haired tail standing upwards. The entirety of the dog's body is captured in a clear reflection in the water. The pathway is surrounded by browning trees and overgrown bushes. There is the lower part of a lamppost on the right which is also being reflected.

  23. A satellite view of part of Port Clarence with the site where the proposed hydrogen production plant may be built in the middle. A housing estate is shown on the right of the picture. From there, and moving to the left, there is a road, then a thin line of trees followed by a single track railway line. There is further greenery before a road on the edge of the industrial site. That has a few buildings dotted around a wharf on the River Tees, the water dominating the bottom centre of the image. Much of the land around it is empty and used for parking, but there is a huge industrial unit and lots of shipping containers in the top left.

  24. Front of Hartlepool Borough Council HQ, showing the main entrance, a blue metal and glass atrium, with brick walls to the side, the right hand one featuring two hanging baskets.

  25. Hemawand Ali Hussein smiling into the camera. He is sitting in a car with black seats and is wearing a black cap and t-shirt. He has a short dark beard and moustache.