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  1. A woman with long wavy hair smiles at the camera. She is standing to the side of a yellow wall with a bright picture on it. There is a glass door behind her.

  2. A football in a net

  3. Anderson exit may free up room for signing - Cowan

    Shrewsbury Town head coach Gavin Cowan points and shouts instructions from the touchline during a game. He is wearing a dark three-quarter zip top.Shutterstock

    Gavin Cowan has won 10, drawn six and lost 14 of his 30 games in charge of Shrewsbury Town

    Shrewsbury Town head coach Gavin Cowan says the departure of Tom Anderson to Carlisle on loan this week has potentially freed up some funds to add to the squad.

    Anderson dropped into the National League in the search for regular football and will be with Carlisle until January.

    Cowan said he was "gutted" to see the defender leave, adding the door to a return to the Salop first team will always be open.

    "It's an absolute brilliant signing for them. If he comes back in I'll be I'll be over the moon because he is one class act," he told BBC Radio Shropshire.

    "I did inherit three centre-halves who are very similar. That's tough to facilitate and Tom unfortunately experienced the brunt of that.

    "There's other areas of the club that we need to make sure that are intact and that's above my pay grade but I have to trust what we're doing is right.

    "We want to add [to the squad] whether it's now or in the window and we have to prepare ourselves for that and that's that's what this is part of."

    Cowan said anyone who does come in will have to be "part of a bigger plan for either now or January" adding he is constantly "knocking on the door" and revealing the club were negotiating with striker Tom Eaves before he joined Gillingham.

    "I've also got a lot of belief with the players we've got and I do feel like it takes a bit of time - players can't just be dropped into our formation, our way of playing, they need to learn it," Cowan added.

    "So these lads here are learning every day, every week, every month. I'm really excited about the team getting better and better each week."

    Shrewsbury are unbeaten in their last three games in League Two and go to sixth-placed Grimsby Town on Saturday (15:00 BST).

  4. A woman with long blonde hair, a grey cardigan and white shirt standing on grass with trees behind her

  5. A dark-haired man wearing a blue short and high vis vest, standing in front of a white lorry with a red trailer. "Dulson Training" can be read on the front of the lorry.

  6. A woman with shoulder length blonde hair wearing large sunglasses. She is smiling at the camera

  7. A woman with dark hair stands in front of four mascots. She is smiling and has glasses on.

  8. Three women in fancy dress on a charity challenge

  9. Two men with brown hair and facial hair stand behind pub bar taps with bottles on shelves behind them.

  10. A band performs on stage, including brass players and an accordion player. They are all wearing hats, with the men in Oktoberfest-style outfits and one woman seen wearing a blue floral dress. They have music stands and sheet music in front of them.

  11. Emma with her son Bert, who's holding his hands up. She is smiling and has her hair tied back, wearing a blue and white striped shirt.

  12. A man with a bald head and a beard in military camoflage standing on an airfield with a blue and yellow helicopter behind him

  13. A composite image. On the left is Josie with dry, flaky skin covering her face. She is wearing a sun hat. On the right is a photo of her with clear skin, wearing the same hat.

  14. A graveyard with graves surrounded by tall trees, flowers and grass

  15. A row of cars in a narrow street in a town with both sides lined with spectators and a number of people holding flags

  16. Nadia Shireen has dark curly hair and a blue and white spotted top in a room with a white background

  17. Tom Anderson playing for Shrewsbury on a sunny afternoon

  18. Two yellow ambulances outside a grey one-storey hospital building

  19. A large red brick building with white sign posts outside and metal fencing surrounding it

  20. The side of a beige-coloured building with the side badly damaged with bricks scattered around and the interior of the building visible

  21. Ed Barnard looking straight ahead and holding the County Championship trophy in his hands

  22. There is a woman with a purple and black stripey jumper and grey hair. She is wearing glasses and is sorting some carbohydrate products like donuts, pretzels and bread. To her left, there is a white wall with a radiator and holders that have leaflets on it.

  23. Composite image of two pole climbers

  24. A narrow road with a pavement and a fence along one side and a brown sign on the other which reads RAF Museum