The Prince and the pauper - the variety of life seen during a shift for the paper

Morning spent photographing the Duke of York meeting a Nobel prize winning scientist , afternoon spent photographing an out of work cleaner , in her bedsit in Ancoats , who is fighting to get holiday pay from a former employer . Only one of them offered me a cup of tea before I took their photo .

Jamie Oliver 's new restaurant Jamie's Italian in the old HSBC bank building in Manchester .

The restaurant retains some of the bank's original features - you can even eat your dinner in the vault , surrounded by steel safety deposit boxes .....

Louise Rennison , author of fiction for teenage girls

The Infidels of Britain in Rochdale

The openly racist nationalist group The Infidels of Britain came to Rochdale on Saturday . They place themselves even further on the extreme right spectrum than groups such as the EDL . A combination of freezing weather and Police tactics of keeping them penned in and away from the expected counter protest by anti fascists meant the day passed without any trouble .

As per usual at the first sign of snow , newspapers are going weather picture crazy at the moment . This was my effort for the MEN taken in Rochdale