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  1. An elderly lady wearing a red jumper is holding a penguin. She is sitting in a pink chair with a tall back. Next to her is another woman, sitting in a similar chair which is green.

  2. Championship clubs spend more than £69m on agents fees

    Sindre Walle Egeli in an a blue Ipswich Town shirtGetty Images

    Ipswich signed Sindre Walle Egeli for a club record £17.5m in January

    Championship clubs spent just over £69.5m on agents fees over the past 12 months according to figures released by the Football Association, an increase of £6m on the previous year.

    The figures cover the period from February 2025 with Ipswich Town the top spenders, paying £11.7m having spent the first three months of the accounting period in the Premier League.

    Southampton (£8.3m) and Leicester (£5.8m), who were relegated alongside Ipswich are the second and third-highest payers on the list.

    Troubled Sheffield Wednesday were the most frugal when dealing with agents, spending £534,559.

    Wrexham come in sixth on the list with an outlay of £3.6m while current Championship leaders Coventry spent just short of £1.5m.

    Championship agents' fee spending

    • Ipswich - £11,738,920

    • Southampton - £8,381,358

    • Leicester City - £5,866,587

    • Sheffield United - £5,005,498

    • Norwich - £4,020,206

    • Wrexham - £3,660,584

    • Swansea - £3,088,645

    • Middlesbrough - £2,900,314

    • Bristol City - £2,774,990

    • Hull City - £2,450,431

    • Stoke City - £2,088,886

    • Birmingham City - £1,996,502

    • Millwall - £1,982,348

    • Preston North End - £1,831,233

    • QPR - £1,829,036

    • Watford - £1,612,833

    • Coventry - £1,497,990

    • Derby - £1,409,507

    • West Brom - £1,346,030

    • Oxford - £1,235,536

    • Charlton - £904,698

    • Portsmouth - £831,818

    • Blackburn - £676,980

    • Sheffield Wednesday - £534,559

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  3. A man wearing a navy blue T-shirt is smiling at the camera while leaning on a table. In front of him is a cocktail with a straw. There is ambient yellow lighting behind him.

  4. A woman wearing a blue scarf is standing in a sports hall with a blue wall. There are chairs and other people behind her. She is smiling for the photograph.

  5. Photo of the entrance to Telford College. It's a large, three-storey building with white columns holding up a porch over the entrance. There are floor-to-ceiling windows on the right-hand side of the building and its entrance, while the left-hand side is black and brown bricks. Over the entrance, there is a white sign with blue letters that reads, "Welcome to Telford College".

  6. A police mugshot of a man wearing a grey top, standing against a light-coloured background. He has black hair and dreadlocks.

  7. Thomas scores for Wales on international duty

    Sorba Thomas, wearing Wales' red home shirt, holds the ball in his left hand and raises his right hand after scoring in the 1-1 draw with Northern Ireland in CardiffGetty Images

    Stoke City striker Sorba Thomas scored his second senior international goal for Wales in a 1-1 home draw with Northern Ireland in a friendly on Tuesday night.

    The 27-year-old poked home from close range to equalise less than a minute into the second half to cancel out Jamie Donley's 22nd-minute opener for the visitors.

    Both nations were still reeling from their World Cup play-off semi-final defeats last Thursday against Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy respectively, resulting in a relatively lacklustre encounter at Cardiff City Stadium.

    Thomas has 25 international caps and his only previous goal for Wales came in World Cup qualifying in June 2025 in a 4-3 defeat by Belgium in Brussels.

    He will now return to the Potters before they host already-relegated Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship on Saturday (15:00 BST).

  8. A woman with long blonde hair tied in a pony tail and over her left shoulder, stands and smiles in a room. She is wearing a black bandana on her head and a black shirt.

  9. A woman wearing a black helmet, white top and black trousers, is mid-air while she performs a trick on a BMX.

  10. A Google street view image of a McDonald's viewed from its car park.

  11. A mugshot of a man with short black hair, a beard and grey hooded top.

  12. A large multi-storey building seen from the air at night with fire completely engulfing it.

  13. A person holding small potato and carrot peelings above a small green food bin, with a green liner in it. On a chopping board next to the bin are carrots, potatoes and an courgette

  14. A woman with long brown hair and a flowery dressed smiles as she looks at and puts her arm around a young girl while sitting down and holding a glass of red wine in her right hand. The girl standing next to her has dark brown hair and is wearing a white headband and dark blue outfit.

  15. An investiture ceremony taking place at St James's Palace. Ann Marie-Riley, wearing a dress and hat, can, is standing in front of Princess Anne while others look on in the background. The room has a large red carpet and contains many regal decorations.

  16. A silver and red Crosscountry train pulled up at a platform at Wolverhampton rail station

  17. The shell of an old five or six-storey mill is being demolished by a large yellow vehicle. It is behind some trees and some houses.

  18. A number of homes in a row at an under-construction housing development. Scaffolding has been set up in the foreground.

  19. A woman with a uniform which says Trading Standards on the back is on the floor on all fours looking into a hole in the floor where cigarettes have been stored in a small orange crate. A panel has been lifted up to reveal the compartment.

  20. A road junction, with a brick building on the right hand side. Black hoarding surrounds a site on the left, with signs on them reading: Etruscan Square

  21. A large multi-storey building seen from the air at night with fire completely engulfing it

  22. A bearded man in a blue puffa jacket with the hood up looks at the camera. He is wearing a backpack on a woodland path