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The Schoolboy Killer

First, a vulnerable man was found in a town centre park with more than 100 knife wounds. Second, a young Saudi woman was found stabbed…
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Walking the Canal after the Calder Valley Floods

Last December, a string of villages just a stone’s throw from my home town of Halifax were flooded. Villages whose impossible-sounding names you may never…
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Treasure finds in England

“Walking with a purpose.” What a great phrase! It came from a metal detectorist called Stuart Eldon while I was producing an Inside Out film…
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Unidentified bodies, Cockley Cley and the people trying to give the unnamed dead a name

I couldn’t believe there were more than 1,000 people in the UK who were dead, unnamed and with nobody to mourn them. In this age…
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Fertility and aphrodisiacs in the 17th Century

I’m a bit old fashioned. I grew up on letters rather than email and I can still remember the excitement of opening my first ever,…
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Great Faces: A personal reminder of the honour of looking people in the eye

Today I am taking stock, laying an anchor in time. For the past couple of months I’ve been leading a hybrid work existence – writing…
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Amputees: how people adjust to life after limb loss

Being the odd one out is strangely invigorating, a good-for-the-soul experience. I experienced it being the only white man on a Tanzania-bound cargo ferry, I…
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For the love of ‘Soup’

Above all else, I love spending time with people. Family. Friends. And work subjects. Yes, you can probably get what you ‘need’ from a quick…
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Looking down in Lisbon

By which I mean ‘down’ in the physical rather than spiritual sense. Never before have I spent time in a city where the tiltation of…
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From urban Harrow to rural Norfolk: Carers

Since July this year, I’ve had the great pleasure and privilege to meet and photograph carers from all works of life and situations. A few…