Norwich Magazine: A Godless City? November 2011
In the UK Census of 2001 27.8% of respondents stated they were of ”no religion” This statistic was the highest in England. For a city with two cathedrals and 32 pre Reformation churches (more than any other city North of the Alps) this figure is surprising. Ten years on much has changed; the Catholic Cathedral’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]