Staff at TJ Hair and Beauty prepare for the Moss Side Caribbean carnival .

Fresh from finally squaring up to Cameron , over the issue of House of Lords reform , Nick Clegg visits a boxing gym in Moss Side , Manchester .

Manchester a year after the riots and a look at the RECLAIM Project charity and their project to combat the growing demonisation of young people

read the story at   http://tinyurl.com/camy5ey

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 .