A Northern Eye 4 - more photographs from the Guardian's man in the north of England

Former Housemartin and The Beautiful South frontman Paul Heaton, about to embark on a UK solo tour, travelling between gigs on his road bike
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Paramedic David Fletcher and his 'office' - the north west air ambulance based at City airport in Manchester
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Respect party MP George Galloway in his campaign office after winning the Bradford West by-election in March
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Sheffield's Olympian Jessica Ennis has a moment of relaxing during her golden year
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Author David Park in his home city of Belfast, setting for the opening scenes in his new novel The Light of Amsterdam, which are set at the funeral of footballer George Best
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Park again, with a wall painting behind him of the Northern Irish legend of Manchester United
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Chris Peatfield, a 23-year-old graduate of Sheffield university who now works for Barratt Developments, won the Rising Star of the Year title in the 2012 Target Jobs National Recruitment awards
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Zeenat Bi at home in Bradford - one of the many local women who gave their support to Respect party candidate George Galloway in the byelection in March
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Sara Rehman, another voter in Bradford West who swung to Galloway
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Child's play in Springtime at Temple Newsam park in Leeds
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Brewer Richard Garthwaite on the Mather's Black Beer production line in Huddersfield
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Respect party candidate George Galloway, far left, and other mourners at an impromptu service in the Bradford restaurant where 24 hours earlier young campaign worker Abu-Bakr Rauf collapsed and died during the byelection in March
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Abu-Bakr Rauf's widow and their children listen to tributes from fellow Respect party campaigners and friends
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Every vote counts, but not enough did. Labour's campaign at the Bradford West byelection became a lonely affair
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Street scene in the car-making Liverpool suburb of Speke
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Dr Simon Abrams, senior partner and GP at the Great Homer Street medical centre in Everton, Liverpool
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American standup comedian Doug Stanhope in Manchester and Salford on the first day of his British tour
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A soldier adds tributes at the Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, after five colleagues from the Yorkshire Regiment were killed in Afghanistan when their armoured car hit a mine
Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian