Salford Royal's Special Delivery

A 350 ton crane delivers a new 6 ton plant room to the roof of the new radiology department at this hospital just outside of central Manchester. Down in the bowels of the building, a construction worker stands in what will eventually be a radiotherapy room.

Ria & Bex's Civil Partnership

About 18 months after Bex wrote a proposal to Ria in the sand while hung over on a beach one morning, their civil partnership ceremony took place at Shrigley Hall in Cheshire. They're now on holiday in the Maldives, where I expect there's a lot more sand to write in!

Schoolbags weigh how much?

The same as twelve house bricks, apparently. A tough job for a schoolboy, since we could only load Abbas with seven before he began to struggle! More proof that academic study is bad for you.

Hannah Whelan, Champion Gymnast

A young Olympic hopeful who won a gold medal in a national competition. Strong arms. Eyes peeled for London 2012.

The Clothes Show, Earl's Court

A job for a beer company brought me unexpectedly to the Clothes Show, where grumpy models in strange clothes were interspersed with gym-buffed, lolloping performance numbers. I'm no tree hugger, but performing an energetic dance routine to Lily Allen's 'The Fear' ('I want loads of clothes and I want lots of diamonds') in this monument to consumerism must've been a lost irony on this crowd..

Land's End to John O' Groats via Trafford

Don't care if silhouettes are cheating, they're pretty. These cyclists are on a long charity bike ride, stopping overnight at Red House Farm in Dunham Massey. Taken on a new 5d mk2, which is, so far as I can tell, a total stonker.

A Certain Ratio

Manchester band 'A Certain Ratio' photographed for a music magazine in one of those brilliant old mills off the Mancunian Way. In no particular order, Martin Moscrop on guitar, Tony Quigley on sax/keyboard, Jeremy Kerr on vocals and bass, Liam Mullan on keyboard and Donald Johnson on percussion. ACR are playing the Platt Fields Park festival June 11th.