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10 things you can shoot and create this month, from BMXs and badgers to train sets and lakes at dawn

Although born in Doncaster during the Second World War, Peter Fitton was brought up in the Fylde, hence his interest in the L&Y – his bedroom in St Annes overlooked the then main line to Blackpool Cen

Digital Camera readers show how they’ve been getting creative, submitting images across a range of genres

5 | URBAN

Put someone in a room with 12 printers for long enough, and they’ll start running out of things to talk about. That was certainly the case with this group test, which resulted in something like 80 sca