A look at religious artefacts and relics at historic Stonyhurst college in Lancashire - including part of the supposed Crown of Thorns .

read all about it here ...  http://tinyurl.com/cgcgvyp

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 ...