Roma Gypsy King Election
With a gold crown perched jauntily on his head, Britain’s first-ever elected ‘Gypsy King’ takes a bow. Ladislav Stojka, 53, was crowned after thousands of travellers in the UK’s Roma Gypsy community cast their vote in an historic ballot. Mr Stojka, was chosen from 19 candidates by representatives from 10 cities including Bolton, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford and London. He was [...]
Operation Odyssey Dawn and Ellamy.
Shooting images of heavily laden RAF Tornado GR4 Bombers from RAF Marham heading for operations to support UN Security Council Resolution 1973 for the European Pressphoto Agency this week has proved challenging to say the least. Long periods of waiting followed by a brief moment of action and a rush to file images for publication [...]
Daily Mail: The doughty dowager hits back: After Boris’s sister boasts of sexing up the most genteel magazine, the owner accuses her of being obsessed with (ahem!) male appendages
Words by Jan Moir. Photograph by Jason Bye for the Daily Mail. Today, Julia Budworth is in tweedy heather hues, a vision of genteel country living. Her good Spanish loafers march smartly across the pale green carpet in her drawing room, her good, thick hair is curled just so, the pearls at her neck gleam. [...]
Daily Mail: A naked general, the lady cricketer with a 12-bore and a village life that’s vanishing for ever.
Words by Louis De Bernieres. Photograph by Jason Bye for the Daily Mail. The Surrey village where I grew up seemed to breed eccentrics. My boyhood memories are peopled by a parade of them. We had a neighbour who kept a menagerie in her house and drove round the country lanes with a piebald goat [...]
The Sunday Times. Pilgrimage of the Sixteen.
Flowing, thrilling and subversive — the Sixteen sing Tudor choral music as it should be sung – as a labour of love Words by Hugh Canning. Photograph by Jason Bye Back in the year 2000, two of Britain’s leading specialist chamber choirs embarked on ambitious millennial concert tours. John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with [...]
Mail on Sunday Cannabis Factory Raid
Welcome to Leafy Suburbia: Skunk central Words by DAMON SYSON pictures by JASON BYE You’ll never guess what the neighbours have done now… Live joins the police as they raid a suburban semi and uncover a secret cannabis factory Dawn has just broken as we snake along a quiet street in Peterborough, a long row [...]
The Times. Interview with Author, Rose Tremain.
Rose Tremain: more than ‘just’ an historical novelist The author who made her name with Restoration deserves to emerge from the shadow of her illustrious peers Words by Erica Wagner. Photograph by Jason Bye for the Times. William Golding nicked Rose Tremain’s suitcase. Yes, really. “It was a British Council tour I did with Richard [...]