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Bob Cooper of Macclesfield, Cheshire remembers: From an early age, I have always loved reading and writing. My best subject at school was English to the detriment of maths, and I managed to become top

I love this photo of my daughter Tuesday, taken in Sheffield. She’d been Christmas shopping with a friend, and was fancying a hot chocolate, when she discovered these Christmassy nutcrackers! Linda Ke

This issue’s Ten Pictures are from the various cameras of Dave McAlone, who’s been recording the railway scene since 1979. His first camera was a Zorki, manufactured in the USSR and an inferior copy o