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  1. A yellow digger at work in a quarry in the distance. Five people in white hard hats are supervising. There are mounds of soil around the bomb site. Trees are in the background and railings in the foreground

  2. Dave Robertson, MP, stands up in parliament speaking, holding some papers. He has short hair and a beard, and is wearing a suit and a gold tie with a small poppy broach. There are green upholstered wooden benches behind him and four other men wearing suits, and a woman wearing a jacket and a scarf.

  3. Jon Brady claps the crowd after a Port Vale match. He is wearing a black club hoodie.

  4. Stoke City boss Mark Robins watches from the touchline. He is wearing a club sweat-top and has his hands together looking a bit like he is saying a prayer.

  5. Eight people stand next to a black podium with a laptop on top of it, with their hands raised in the air. Behind them is a multi-coloured background and a banner with a message about knife crime.

  6. The sun is rising or setting behind the distance hillside as smoke rises from a fire in the middle of a large area of heathland.

  7. A woman with grey hair and a pink jumper, standing in a high street next to another woman with long ginger hair and a red dress with a white floral pattern. Both are smiling at the camera.

  8. A wide view of smoke drifting across heathland, with fire engines visible in the distance beneath a cloudy sky.

  9. Julie Parton - a woman with brown curly hair and wearing a floral dress - stands in front of a shed in a garden.

  10. 🎧 'Pre-season state of play'

    A new episode of BBC Radio Stoke's A Cold Wet Tuesday Night podcast is now available.

    Lucas Yeomans, Matt Sandoz and Gareth Owen assess the Stoke City state of play before the new season, and discuss potential ins and outs before the closure of the transfer window.

    Listen below or on BBC Sounds here - and don't forget to subscribe to get each episode into your My Sounds feed.

    A Cold Wet Tuesday Night: 'Pre season state of play'

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  11. The back of a police officer wearing a hi-vis police jacket is to the right of the frame. Two other officers can be seen in the background.

  12. Frank Warren and Nathan Heaney

  13. A yellow digger at work in a quarry in the distance. Five people in white hard hats are supervising. There are mounds of soil around the bomb site. Trees are in the background and railings in the foreground

  14. An aerial image of an area of grassland that is completely black due to a fire. Surrounding it are a boundary of large green trees. on a small road nearby are three red and yellow fire engines

  15. A cook grills a number of sausages on a cooker. The are browned and slightly charred, the cook wears white gloves and is holding tongs

  16. A man stands in a multi-storey car park and smiles, while wearing a black hat with says Capital&Centric. There is construction work taking place behind him.

  17. Boxer Nathan Heaney, who has dark hair and a moustache, stands to the side of a promotional dais advertising his next bout. A security man stands in the background to his left

  18. A city centre high street filled with people walking along it. There is a row of shops on the left and lamp-posts and a tree in the middle of the street.

  19. A woman with tied back blonde hair, she is wearing black thick framed sunglasses and a horizontally striped top on. Behind her is a wooden sculpture of a fish.

  20. Man with black top on a street with a wall and bush behind him and a red car.

  21. Port Vale sign striker Simpson after Stevenage exit

    Striker Tyreece Simpson, wearing a purple Stevenage shirt, waves after the match away at Norwich CityGetty Images

    Tyreece Simpson has signed a one-year contract with Port Vale

    Port Vale have signed striker Tyreece Simpson on a one-year deal.

    Simpson, 24, was available on a free transfer after he left League One side Stevenage at the end of last season - and he has agreed to drop into League Two with the Valiants, who were relegated from the third tier in April.

    St Kitts and Nevis international Simpson is an Ipswich Town academy product but has, since leaving Portman Road, had permanent spells with Huddersfield Town and Stevenage as well as loan spells at Swindon Town, Northampton Town and Colchester United.

    He missed all of last term injured, having suffered a ruptured Achilles in pre-season, as Stevenage reached the League One play-offs and he was among seven senior players to leave the club at the end of their contracts.

    Vale have made him their eighth signing of a busy summer, having already recruited Lewis Montsma, Jasper Moon, Max Watters, Aaron McGowan, Kyle Dempsey, Matthew Craig and Jackson Smith.

    Remember, this is your Port Vale club page so bookmark it, or if you're on the BBC Sport app or signed in on a browser, hit 'Follow' to add it to your MySport and get more news - and also select the bell icon in the app to sign up for club notifications.

  23. Jazmin Sawyers is sideways on to the camera as she kisses her medal, in her right hand. She has tied-back black frizzy hair and is wearing a white team top.

  24. A woman with long blonde hair, tied back with a black bandana and in a pony tail which is draped over her left shoulder, smiles as she stands in a room, in front of a white wall which says Staffordshire Sight Loss. She is wearing a black shirt which says the charity's name and has the logo next to it.