Even Count Binface made a proxy appearance at Durham Miners Gala 2026

I headed across to Durham this morning to photograph the 140th anniversary of the Durham Miners Gala and it was… Read more Even Count Binface made a proxy appearance at Durham Miners Gala 2026

Sony announces that PlayStation games will no longer be available in a physical form and I am pissed off

Way back in 2003 I was suitably impressed with the PlayStation 2 and especially Medal of Honor Frontline which effectively… Read more Sony announces that PlayStation games will no longer be available in a physical form and I am pissed off

Yesterday I saw my third amateur rugby league match this year, at Wath Brow Hornets’ Giel Park home ground in… Read more Wath Brow Hornets fall short against Wigan St Judes

I well remember the band Martin Stephenson and the Daintees back in the mid-1980s as they were widely tipped to… Read more Martin Stephenson in Carlisle 19 years later

I attended my second rugby league match this year on Saturday when Cleator Moor’s Wath Brow Hornets faced visitors West… Read more Hornets Bounce Back to Return to Winning Ways

I realised recently that the last time I covered a rugby league match was in 1996 before I left my… Read more My return to rugby league

It is hard to believe that today is the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and I can remember seeing… Read more The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor disaster 40 years on

Read more: Antisocial yob biker I had some fun and games last year when Cumbria police started Operation Colossus which… Read more Operation Colossus

It was August 1989 and three travelling companions were set to invade France from the north-east of England to enjoy… Read more August 1989 and The Three Musketeers conquer France

They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery but I have to tip my hat to a so-called… Read more Gordon Norman caricature and the decline of traditional newspapers