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Linhof Super Technika: Wheat and flowers

Mr Carl Zeiss Tessar 105 has become virtually unusable with extreme balsam separation spreading out across the glass. So I bought another one, even older,…
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The Funeral of Margaret Thatcher

I have been having a look back over a number of assignments from the past few years. One of them was the funeral of Margaret…
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Shafts of Light, Holland on Sea

Taken on an otherwise overcast day in Holland on Sea, Essex. The turbines on which some of the light falls are the Gunfleet Sands array, a…
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NHS at 70: A&E in single words

Last year I was part of a team that reported live from inside a hospital emergency department. I was interested to know what single word…
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The asylum seekers, migrants and refugees in search of legitimacy

This is the scene. A BBC crew arrives at a Red Cross refugee drop-in centre with a large camera and a long furry microphone. Is…
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In the footsteps of Corrie McKeague

The last known images of Corrie Mckeague alive are grainy, monochrome pictures captured by a town centre CCTV system. The 23-year-old airman had been for…
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Copenhagen: Four scenes of flatness

A Yorkshireman, I am most at home on and in the hills. If you are not walking upwards or downwards in West Yorkshire, chances are…
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Teaching bans: Gathering the numbers

Months ago, I sent a Freedom of Information request to the Department for Education asking for details of all teachers banned in the past five…
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The once homeless father who got a new home

It’s easy to take things for granted. I met a father-of-two a few weeks back whose relationship break up had left him homeless. Lee Mobley,…