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About Stefan RousseauFor the past fifteen years, I've spent much of my time travelling with and photographing the Prime Minister of Great Britain. This has taken me to every corner of the world and includes Tony Blair's first visits to Afghanistan, Iraq and later to Libya where he held historic talks with Colonel Gaddafi.In 2009, I became the British Press Awards Photographer of the Year and retained the title in 2010.My career began in 1988 when I started work on a weekly paper in Hertfordshire. After two and a half years of summer fetes, Christmas bazaars and golden weddings I moved to Essex to join a regional press agency and learned much about the highs and lows of national photojournalism.In 1993, the bright lights of London beckoned and after knocking on many doors, I began working for the Press Association.Here on my website are some highlights of the past few years. In this job so many pictures don't get published and never get seen by anyone other than my picture desk. I therefore wanted to show some of those photographs alongside the better known ones.I have started to expand the travel section including sets of pictures from some of the fascinating places I have visited. I intend to increase these portfolios as long as I keep travelling the world.In the Weddings gallery, again I thought it would be nice to show what are quite often very natural and revealing pictures. There is so much emotion at a wedding that it is very easy for the subjects to forget you're there. I don't make a living out of them but they're fun to do once in a while!So if you'd like to get in touch and offer me endless paid travel assignments then do write or if you'd just like to know more about the life of a news photographer, that's ok too!photography@stefanrousseau.comAbout Fr AlexFr Alex Frost is the vicar of St Matthew’s the Apostle, Burnley, where he grew up. He describes himself as the ‘fundamentally unemployable’ host of The God Cast, a podcast devoted to issues of faith and spirituality, which has featured celebrities such as Eamonn Holmes, Alastair Campbell, Edwina Currie, Dom Joly, George Galloway, Anthea Turner and football legend Lou Macari. Anthea Turner and football legend Lou Macari. Ordained in 2015 after a mixed career working as a football referee, manager at Argos and a stand-up comic, Fr Alex also served on The Church of England General Synod for Blackburn Diocese. He is married to Sarah and has three children.Fr Alex made headlines when he featured in a 2021 BBC documentary The Cost of Covid – One Year On, which has been viewed over 12 million times since it was aired. Running a food bank from a car park in Burnley, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged, Fr Alex’s down-to-earth style of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and classes across the UK in a time when the divide between rich and poor widens cataclysmically. The Church of England priest, who sports tattoos of his favourite band Depeche Mode, has become the last bastion of support for many in the aftermath of austerity measures, Government cuts and Covid 19 upon a community already ravaged by poverty, addiction and neglect. More recently Fr Alex has been front and centre campaigning for the reclassification of Ketamine, including working as part of a Government consultation, and has featured on National Media outlets including Good Morning Britain, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live. Fr Alex has also spearheaded a campaign for more working class vocations in the Anglican Communion, and in 2025 brought a Private Members Motion to the National Church. His address received a standing ovation and in January 2026 the church unanimously supported his proposals and is now pressing ahead with his plans.

#punk #music Timothy "T. V." Smith (born 5 April 1956) is an English singer-songwriter who was part of punk band The Adverts in the late 1970s. Since then he has fronted other bands, as well as pursuing a solo career..BiographySmith and Gaye Black (a.k.a. Gaye Advert) moved from, respectively, Okehampton in mid-Devon, and Bideford, a small coastal town in Devon, to form The Adverts in London in 1976.The Adverts are best known for their 1977 hit single "Gary Gilmore's Eyes" and acclaimed 1978 debut album Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts. Following unsuccessful follow-up album Cast of Thousands, The Adverts split up in late 1979, and Smith formed a new band, T.V. Smith's Explorers. They were: Erik Russell (guitar), Colin Stoner (bass), Mel Wesson (keyboards) and David Sinclair (drums). The Explorers released their debut single "Tomahawk Cruise" (a response to the installation of BGM-109 Tomahawk Cruise missiles on UK soil) in 1980, followed by an album, The Last Words of the Great Explorer. Smith then recorded as a solo artist, releasing the album Channel Five in 1983.
Fr Alex Frost is the vicar of St Matthew’s the Apostle, Burnley, where he grew up. He describes himself as the ‘fundamentally unemployable’ host of The God Cast, a podcast devoted to issues of faith and spirituality, which has featured celebrities such as Eamonn Holmes, Alastair Campbell, Edwina Currie, Dom Joly, George Galloway, Anthea Turner and football legend Lou Macari. Anthea Turner and football legend Lou Macari. Ordained in 2015 after a mixed career working as a football referee, manager at Argos and a stand-up comic, Fr Alex now also serves on The Church of England General Synod for Blackburn Diocese. He is married to Sarah and has three children.
Fr Alex made headlines when he featured in a 2021 BBC documentary The Cost of Covid – One Year On, which has been viewed over 12 million times since it was aired. Running a food bank from a car park in Burnley, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged, Fr Alex’s down-to-earth style of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and classes across the UK in a time when the divide between rich and poor widens cataclysmically. The Church of England priest, who sports tattoos of his favourite band Depeche Mode, has become the last bastion of support for many in the aftermath of austerity measures, Government cuts and Covid 19 upon a community already ravaged by poverty, addiction and neglect.
More recently Fr Alex has been front and centre campaigning for the reclassification of Ketamine, including working as part of a Government consultation, and has featured on National Media outlets including Good Morning Britain, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live. Fr Alex has also spearheaded a campaign for more working class vocations in the Anglican Communion, and in 2025 brought a Private Members Motion to the National Church. His address received a standing ovation and in January 2026 the church unanimously supported his proposals and is now pressing ahead with his plans.
He is due to travel to Pakistan in mid 2026 as part of documentary investigation into the unexplained death of his parishioner Kelsey Devlin. Kelsey features heavily in Alex's first book, and the project is being supported by documentary maker Masood Khan and ITV.

Alex is the host of The God Cast purchase his book here https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/our-daily-bread-from-argos-to-the-altar-a-priests-story-father-alex-frost?variant=40158841110606Robb recently was a member of '#churchofengland #synod About Robb from his church website https://www.holynativity.co.uk/people/revdrobb/Robb is married to Ruth. In their spare time they play in a local rock band called Silverthorn and ride motorbikes. The most exotic location they have travelled on the back of them is the Rocky Mountains.When he was at university Robb started to ask all of the Christians he met awkward questions about ‘what it means to follow this guy called Jesus’? He never really stopped asking those awkward questions so transferred from a degree in Chemistry to Religious Studies. From then he felt a persistent calling to ordained ministry. Robb became an RE teacher and taught in a local comprehensive school whilst exploring his call to the priesthood. Following ordination in 2009, he served a curacy in Morley and then came to Holy Nativity in 2012.Robb and Ruth are both musicians, writing and releasing songs together. They have many years of involvment in Alt:Worship and with their band Metanoia have developed develop the Rock Mass liturgies and worship in a culturally authentic way. A regular Rock Mass takes place here at Holy Nativity to engage with new congregations and new ways of experiencing God through worship.“He’s still asking us those awkward questions about Jesus” – Robb’s exasperated friends.BA(Hons) in Religious Studies, PGCE Secondary Education (Religious Education), MA in Theology and Ministry, MA in Liturgy.

Fr Alex Frost is the vicar of St Matthew’s the Apostle, Burnley, where he grew up. He describes himself as the ‘fundamentally unemployable’ host of The God Cast, a podcast devoted to issues of faith and spirituality, which has featured celebrities such as Eamonn Holmes, Alastair Campbell, Edwina Currie, Dom Joly, George Galloway, Anthea Turner and football legend Lou Macari. Anthea Turner and football legend Lou Macari. Ordained in 2015 after a mixed career working as a football referee, manager at Argos and a stand-up comic, Fr Alex now also serves on The Church of England General Synod for Blackburn Diocese. He is married to Sarah and has three children.
Fr Alex made headlines when he featured in a 2021 BBC documentary The Cost of Covid – One Year On, which has been viewed over 12 million times since it was aired. Running a food bank from a car park in Burnley, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged, Fr Alex’s down-to-earth style of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and classes across the UK in a time when the divide between rich and poor widens cataclysmically. The Church of England priest, who sports tattoos of his favourite band Depeche Mode, has become the last bastion of support for many in the aftermath of austerity measures, Government cuts and Covid 19 upon a community already ravaged by poverty, addiction and neglect.
More recently Fr Alex has been front and centre campaigning for the reclassification of Ketamine, including working as part of a Government consultation, and has featured on National Media outlets including Good Morning Britain, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live. Fr Alex has also spearheaded a campaign for more working class vocations in the Anglican Communion, and in 2025 brought a Private Members Motion to the National Church. His address received a standing ovation and in January 2026 the church unanimously supported his proposals and is now pressing ahead with his plans.
He is due to travel to Pakistan in mid 2026 as part of documentary investigation into the unexplained death of his parishioner Kelsey Devlin. Kelsey features heavily in Alex's first book, and the project is being supported by documentary maker Masood Khan and ITV.

#manchester #grooming #exploitation To understand why Marlon West is standing to become Greater Manchester mayor, you first have to understand what happened to his daughter. “Scarlett was groomed from the age of 14,” he says as we sit down to talk in Stockport.“Prior to that, a good kid, owned her own horse, loved her horse, spent all weekend with it and after school. And then she was groomed.” Scarlett, now 21, spoke to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) alongside her father in 2024, waiving her right to anonymity to tell her story.Since then, both have spoken publicly about what happened.Her case featured in the Baird Inquiry, which examined the experiences of women and girls arrested and taken into police custody in Greater Manchester. The inquiry found Scarlett “went missing and was raped” in 2019 by a man referred to as Adult 4. It also found another man, known as Adult 5, groomed her, with Scarlett describing being driven to hotels to take drugs and have sex.It found she was made to strip to her underwear at Bury police station after being arrested on suspicion of involvement in a car robbery in August 2019. She did not have an appropriate adult with her.The report also concluded Scarlett “didn’t feel believed” by Greater Manchester Police after the grooming and that the force “did not effectively protect her” from frightening late-night visits by men to her home. The experience has shaped almost everything Marlon West has done since.Last year he was approached by Restore Britain and asked whether he would help with the party’s own rape gang inquiry. He agreed.After Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election, attention quickly turned to the race to replace him as Greater Manchester mayor. The LDRS first revealed West was expected to become Restore Britain’s candidate before the party confirmed his selection days later.The experience of fighting for his daughter, he says, is the reason he entered politics.“The experience I had as a parent was horrific, so you can imagine what Scarlett went through, it was on a completely different level.“She was trafficked, raped, tortured, and when I say trafficked, not just Greater Manchester, across the country. People might be surprised to hear she’s not the only teenage girl from Manchester this has happened to, it is happening to hundreds.“What I quickly realised afterwards, I wasn’t getting anywhere with local authorities or Greater Manchester Police, and then I started my campaign. source https://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/ne...