A trip to the USA - NYC and Surf City , North Carolina .

Professor Bernard Richards photographed for a feature to mark the centenary of Alan Turing 's birth .

Professor Richards provides a fascinating human link to a period that can easily be seen as consigned to the history books . As a young masters student at Manchester University he worked alongside Turing . He then spent most of his life working at the University where  he still works as a Professor aged 80 .
Read the Manchester Evening story at http://tinyurl.com/bw9gkv7

A beacon is lit by the Lord Mayor of Manchester Cllr Elaine Boyes on the roof of Manchester Cathedral to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II 's Diamond Jubilee .

In a shocking news story , a car chase in Bury ended with the occupants of a crashed vehicle being stabbed and beaten with baseball bats by masked men .

read the story at  http://bit.ly/KWfABr

Glorious sunshine for the Race for Life at Offerton Park near Stockport

DIY CSI in MCR

Rachael Turner and Asa Calow , directors of DIYBIOMCR at their DIY biology group at MadLab , Edge St , Manchester . They have been invited to the USA to discuss their work with the FBI . That's enough acronyms for one post now ...

Little Clay Men invade Manchester

Artist Lawrence Epps has created 8,000 little clay men and distributed them around Manchester city centre as part of the Future Everything Festival . Members of the public are encouraged to tweet pictures of any clay men spotted with the hashtag  #littleclaymen . Read more at http://bit.ly/Jv8dqG