I took around 30,000 photos this year and picking favourites is never easy, but here are a few of the pictures I'm fondest of since January. Read More
It's a strange thing to return to a childhood home and find it somehow changed. Walls repainted. The conservatory added, or gone. Hedges cut down, or new ones planted. Stranger still to find the place surrounded by razor wire fencing. Watched by surveillance cameras. Patrolled by guards in blue-light trucks. Not only the house where you grew up, but the entire town. Read More