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by Stephen FordDie hard collectors blow their antique whistles at 12 noon to celebrate International Whistle Day 2013. Organiser Alan 'the whistle' Kipping demonstrated some of the rare whistles in his collection after the communal sound off.
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by Stephen FordPolice taser a man wielding a knife in front of Buckingham Palace.
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by Stephen FordSand is pumped in to fill Boeung Tumpun lake in Phnom Penh and pushed up to shanty stilt houses. Residents fear eviction if they dont take money offered to them to move out of their homes by land developers.
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by Stephen FordA packet of local Cambodian ARA cigarettes costs 1400Riel, around £0.22. Government tobacco tax on local products is currently 10%. Smoking and drinking is endemic in the poor youth of Cambodia and tax hike is proposed to cut the addiction.
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by Stephen FordHeavy machinery is pumping millions of tonnes of sand from the river into the Boeung Tumpun lake in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The area is home to some 2000 families and rumours suggest they will be evicted to develop the land once the lake is filled.
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by Stephen FordMonsoon like rainfall in Derbyshire causes swollen streams to burst through their banks and flood arterial roads in Derbyshire. The steep A619 road from Chesterfield to Baslow remained open but resembled a river as traffic punched through the water.
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by Stephen FordVendors sell wild birds they catch, at a shrine in Phnom Penh on the holiday for the 76th birthday of Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk. The Buddhist worshipers pray with the birds and release them for good luck.
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by Stephen FordA small group of protesters, some just young children, released balloons and chanted songs calling for the release of the 13 jailed women detained in Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison. The 13 women were imprisoned last month for up to 2.5 years.
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