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  1. Bishop Auckland high street has a few people walking up it in the sun. The shop closest is The Works on the left side of the street with Newcastle Building Society next along.

  3. Marton Road has four narrow lanes. It is surrounded by houses on its left side and grassland on the right. The road is lined by trees. A small grey van is travelling down towards a set of traffic lights.

  4. Matt Targett pointing at himself with his right hand after scoring for Middlesbrough. He has a big smile on his face.

  5. The underside of the A19 flyover has metal fencing and scaffolding in place underneath the section of road which has a blue van driving over it.

  6. Durham County Council councillors Karen Allison and Joe Quinn standing outside the museum. They are both wearing hard hats in front of the grey, cube-shaped building. Allison is in a yellow hi-vis waist coat and Quinn has on an orange hi-vis jacket. Allison has shoulder length dark hair and Quinn has short hair and glasses. Both are smiling.

  7. 'Our pressing was outstanding'

    Hellberg: Boro 'need to enjoy the ride'

    Middlesbrough head coach Kim Hellberg says his side's work off the ball was instrumental in claiming a crucial victory at Birmingham City in their quest for automatic promotion.

    Two goals from Matt Targett and one for David Strelec helped Boro win for the first time in four games and inflict only a second home league loss on Blues in 42 matches.

    They are back within five points of leaders Coventry City and managed their success in the west Midlands by scoring with all three of their efforts on target and under 40% possession.

    "You come to this place - one loss in two years - they've been absolutely brilliant and you can see that, a very good squad, a lot of good players," Hellberg told BBC Radio Tees.

    "For most of the game, we were very, very good, especially in the first half. It was well deserved.

    "Our pressing today was outstanding. How hard we worked, how many balls we won high, how we frustrated them. The high pressing and energy today was the key and it's good to see we can win like that, absolutely brilliant."

  8. An anonymous boy with his back to the camera in a park. He has brown hair down to his neck and is facing away from the picture. He's on a swing, wearing headphones, and is aged about 12. This is a stock picture.

  9. Matt Targett celebrates scoring

  10. A screenshot of an AI-generated image showing a group of South Asian men in black tracksuits next to a white coach in a suburban housing estate as part of a posted Facebook link. Underneath there is a headline from Darren Grimes's blog saying, Durham is Not a Dumping Ground: Fix the Great Housing Betrayal. 5,500 people have reacted to it and there are 760 comments and 665 shares.

  11. A road in very poor condition with half of it cracked off from the whole and sliding down the hill. A traffic cones can be seen at either side.

  12. A woman with light hair wearing a purple jumper smiles and holds up an open copy of an old library book. An old-fashioned issue label is stuck inside the front cover.

  13. Ann Ming holds a large glass trophy in front of a black banner with the Royal Television Society written on it. She is elegantly dressed in a dark red and black jacket, with short white hair.

  14. Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough with a cycle lane on the right side of the shot. The cycle lane is marked with a white line and black and white bollards.

  15. Randal wearing a high visibility yellow jacket with a dark top underneath and a blue baseball cap with a white log on it. He is holding his right arm up and waving

  16. Aaron McLean, Final Score EFL pundit

  17. A grey 5 litre kitchen caddy and a grey outdoor 23 litre food waste container alongside a black wheelie bin.

  18. Three men and a woman stood in fire fighter uniform in front of a fire engine. One of the men is stood on the step of the fire engine.

  19. A sunset sky in shades of pink, red and orange with dark grey clouds. A skyline of trees and hills is in silhouette against the sky, and in the foreground a road winds towards the horizon.

  20. The road junction before work has started. It has a single lane of traffic to the left. In the distance, cars are crossing a road bridge. The is also a sliproad.

  21. Mugshots of Tyler Bradley (left) and Wayne Boyd (right). Both men appear young in age. Tyler has a long brown fringe and wears glasses. Wayne has red hair and also wears glasses.

  22. Close-up of the back and shoulders of a police officer wearing his high-vis yellow uniform with reflective bands and the word police written across a blue background in grey capitals.

  23. What really is the worst EFL kit of all time?

    Coventry City's new Hummel kit, in deep chocolate plum with sky blue features.Coventry City FC

    Coventry City's new 'deep chocolate plum' fourth kit pays homage to an away strip from more than four decades ago.

    You might not hear the old terrace refrain of 'you're not fit to wear the shirt' as often as you used to, but it still has a better ring than 'the shirt's not fit for you to wear'.

    Championship leaders Coventry City launched a new collection on Friday, proudly taking inspiration from a kit widely dubbed the 'Worst of All Time'.

    A take on the club's infamous brown change strip worn away from Highfield Road from 1978 to 1981, the modern reinvention features what the club calls "a deeper chocolate plum colour with sky blue elements".

    Many would suggest it sounds tastier than it looks.

    But it's got us thinking... what are actually the worst EFL kits of all time? Let us know which of your club's shirts is hiding in the back of the wardrobe, or even if they were too ugly for you to even part money for them.

    We'll collate a list of the biggest eyesores and will give you the chance to vote on the ghastliest of all next week.

    Click here to let us know your suggestion, and you can even attach a picture if you really want to convey the horror.

  24. 'Confident' Hellberg works on Boro's scoring touch

    Hellberg: Boro 'could and should score more goals'

    Kim Hellberg said Middlesbrough are working hard to find their scoring touch but he retains "all the confidence in the world" that it will return.

    Boro have slipped five points behind Championship leaders Coventry City following defeat at the Sky Blues and frustrating back-to-back home draws against Oxford United and Leicester City.

    Hellberg's side dominated the latter two games and registered a total of 41 shots in them, but only 11 were on target with one goal to show for them, against the Foxes on Tuesday night.

    "We are trying to react to it and work from it - we keep moving forward," he told BBC Radio Tees.

    "I think we have scored the third most goals in the league since I arrived. We will continue to work on scoring more goals and finding solutions.

    "We had four games in a row [from 20 December to 1 January] when we didn't score for seven hours and we tried to work from it to become better, and we did, [scoring 13 over the next four matches].

    "Now we're doing the same thing, we don't score enough. And we're still creating a lot of opportunities, but we haven't been efficient enough in those situations."

    Hellberg refuted the suggestion his players were lacking energy against Leicester.

    "There are a lot of players who have played almost every minute," he said. "We have a thin squad, a lot of players coming back from injury.

    "I don't think the energy has been a problem but you can always have more energy. [The problem is] we haven't been quite good enough in situations where we could and should score goals."

    Despite the 'blip,' going into the weekend fixtures, with Hellberg's side headed to Birmingham on Monday (20:00 GMT), Boro remain four points clear of third-placed Millwall, though Ipswich Town, six points back in fourth, do have two games in hand.

    "I have all the confidence in the world," he said. "We have one loss in nine games, we draw two games [but] when you look at them we created a lot of opportunities.

    "We have to keep working, keep finding ways to score and improve. That's what we're trying to do."

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