Roundup from the last few weeks
November 13th, 2011
I have been looking through some of my recent pictures this week as I have set about getting my archive in order, and thought I would stick a few images together from some of the events here in little old London and beyond. We have had quite a busy time actually.
Gadaffi’s death may have happened thousands of miles away but as the realisation hit for Libyan people across the world, including the many Libyan Nationals here in London, I was glad to be a part of this global event in whatever small part I could. It is impossible to know what it really meant to the hundreds of people that turned out at the Libyan Embassy in Knightsbridge, but their sense of relief was palpable and very moving. I can not imagine how this must have manifested itself on the streets of Tripoli.
We have had dodgy cricketers, dodgier bankers, bionic exoskeletons, once in a lifetime art events in the shape if the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery, protests, global summits and of course Remembrance services across the country that both myself and colleagues covered.
The ‘Occupy’ protesters kind of lost their message when they decided to occupy St Paul’s Cathedral instead of their intended target the Stock Exchange, and whom remain despite the best efforts of everyone to move them on. Syrian nationals protested in numbers as their people fell victim to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime, and more recently the student protests which thankfully managed to take place with hardly any trouble at all, and consequently probably had far greater impact than had there been violence.
I enjoyed a very wet and miserable G20 where virtually nothing was achieved, and at the end of last week covered Armistice day, which this year took me to the Cambridge American Cemetery, which I had never been to before.
So all in all an interesting few weeks, scrappy at times with a few long wet days standing on ladders thrown in for good measure, but enjoyable all the same.
And I didn’t have to wear my hard hat once. That is a result!!
