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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,Creamfields 2026,Cheshire,Warrington,music,electronic,security,sign,festival site,site,perimeter,event,Police,drug,seizure,buried,drugs,MDMA,ecstasy,ketamine,nitrous,oxide,August Bank Holiday,preparation,crowd,crime,theft,criminality,trespass,trespassers,entry,road,lane,sites,camping,glamping
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FC3TYG - . A temporary roadside sign stating 'Trespassing is not allowed on the Creamfields site at any time' marks the boundary of the festival grounds at Daresbury, Cheshire, shortly before the 2026 August Bank Holiday event. Creamfields grew from Liverpool club culture: the original Cream night began at Nation in 1992, while the first Creamfields festival was held in Winchester in 1998 before moving through Liverpool and settling at Daresbury in 2006. The 2026 edition celebrates 20 years at its Cheshire home, with up to 80,000 dance-music fans expected and headline-scale artists including Calvin Harris, Swedish House Mafia, Disclosure, Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Becky Hill, Fatboy Slim, Underworld, Carl Cox and Amelie Lens. The warning also has an unusually topical security context. On 24 August 2026 Cheshire Constabulary announced that specialist pre-event searches had uncovered quantities of Class A, B and C drugs hidden and buried in the grounds, including ecstasy, MDMA, ketamine and about 204 nitrous-oxide canisters. Police said searches would continue and reiterated the festival's zero-tolerance drugs policy. Such perimeter notices are part of the temporary infrastructure that transforms normally quiet farmland near Warrington and Runcorn into one of Britain's largest electronic music gatherings. They also reflect the practical challenge of securing a huge greenfield site before tens of thousands of campers, staff, contractors and artists arrive. This documentary image is relevant to festival security, trespass prevention, event policing, drug interdiction, rural land use, temporary signage, public safety, crowd management and the impact of mass entertainment on a Cheshire village. It records the less glamorous operational side of festival culture: weeks of preparation, controlled access, searches and stewarding behind the stages, lasers and headline DJ sets. It also preserves a dated visual record of festival preparations in late August 2026.
Creamfields, Daresbury, Cheshire, England, UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,festival,music,rave,dance,electronic,Latchford,Cheshire,A50,traffic,delays,warning,sign,road,motoring,travel,event,August,2026,weekend,congestion,temporary,roadside,orange,LED,display,festivalgoers,drugs,policing,buried,DJ,DJs,management,roadside information board,MDMA,bust,ecstasy,ketamine,nitrous oxide,tickets
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3FAP99X - Electronic roadside message sign in Latchford, Warrington, Cheshire, warning motorists that delays are possible during Creamfields, the major annual electronic dance music festival held at Daresbury over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The amber LED display reads CREAMFIELDS FESTIVAL 27-30 AUG DELAYS POSSIBLE , illustrating the effect a large regional entertainment event can have on surrounding roads, neighbourhoods and everyday journeys well beyond the festival site. Creamfields 2026 runs from Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 August at Daresbury and marks 20 years at its Cheshire home. Organisers describe it as a leading dance music festival, with a large programme of DJs and electronic artists attracting visitors from across Britain and overseas. Cheshire Constabulary said up to 80,000 music fans were expected and that policing would extend beyond the site, with attention also given to minimising disruption for local communities. On 24 August 2026 police announced that specialist pre-event searches had uncovered a sizeable quantity of class A, B and C drugs hidden and buried in the festival grounds. The haul included about 204 canisters of nitrous oxide together with bags containing ecstasy, MDMA and ketamine tablets. Officers said searches would continue before opening and reiterated the festival's zero-tolerance approach to illegal drugs. The warning board therefore records both the practical transport impact of one of the UK's largest dance events and the extensive planning, traffic management, security and policing operation required around it. Latchford lies on the Warrington side of the wider road network used by residents, commuters and festival traffic travelling towards the Daresbury area, making temporary signs such as this part of the effort to alert road users to congestion and possible delays during the busy Bank Holiday period. It also provides a contemporary record of how major festivals affect transport, policing and local life in Cheshire.
Maybrook Place Bridge Shopping Centre, Latchford, Warrington WA4 1JR
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,255A1330,themed,letter,tiles,over,Greater,England,culture,art,music,museum,design,heritage,creative,Factory,records,baggy,indie,dance,acid house,rave,northern,pop,cultural,history,nightlife,legendary,nightclub,ecstasy,Shaun Ryder,Bez,Step On,Kinky Afro,Pills n Thrills,drug,drugs
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F9CT81 - . MadFrit Madchester-themed letter tiles over an Ancoats and Manchester street map, evoking Happy Mondays, the Hacienda and 1980s Mad Frit music. Photographed on 15 August 2026. The recorded location is Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. Factory Records, founded in Manchester in 1978 by Tony Wilson and partners, became central to the city's post-punk and dance culture through artists including Joy Division and New Order and through the Haçienda nightclub. Its design-led catalogue and influence on the later Madchester scene made surviving offices, signs and ephemera important pieces of British music history. Looking at concert photography, the longer history is that concert culture changed with amplification, arena touring, festivals and digital promotion, yet the basic relationship between performer, venue and audience continues to be central
Older gig photographs can gain significance as bands, buildings and local scenes change. The background to engineering history is that industrial buildings and machinery preserve the material history of manufacturing: steam power, engineering, mining, textiles, ceramics and mass production transformed both the economy and the physical character of towns
Surviving equipment is now studied as industrial archaeology. Within the history of local history, museums turn objects into interpreted past, while archives preserve documents that may have little value until researchers connect them with people, buildings or events
Interiors therefore record both collections and changing curatorial practice. In 2026, concert photography remains relevant because streaming dominates recorded music , increasing the importance of touring, merchandise and live events to many artists
Historical concert images therefore connect fan culture with the changing economics of the music business. Its wider subject context includes archive research, library service, and cultural institution.
Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 3F511YW - The entrance to Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, with a large illuminated Ozzy logo and interpretation panels introducing the Birmingham-born singer's life, solo career and discography. The exhibition title invites an interesting question about what working class hero means in Osbourne's case. His origins were undeniably working class: he grew up in Aston in a large family, left school at 15 and worked in a succession of manual jobs before music transformed his life. Black Sabbath emerged from industrial Birmingham and that background became central to both the band's identity and the city's claim as a birthplace of heavy metal. Yet Osbourne's later life was far removed from those beginnings. International success brought wealth, homes in Britain and the United States, decades of touring and a lifestyle associated with global celebrity rather than everyday working-class experience. From 2002, MTV reality series The Osbournes placed his affluent family life in Los Angeles on television, turning him into a mainstream celebrity far beyond heavy metal. That does not necessarily make the exhibition title false. Working Class Hero can be read as describing where Osbourne came from, the culture that shaped him and the extraordinary social mobility represented by his career, rather than claiming he remained economically working class throughout his life. It can equally be seen as a deliberately celebratory piece of hometown branding, simplifying a more complicated story of class, fame, wealth, migration and celebrity. The Birmingham exhibition focuses on his global achievements while repeatedly anchoring them in Aston and Birmingham. Dark walls, biography panels, discography information and the bright red and yellow Ozzy logo create a theatrical museum entrance. This indoor scene records not only a rock exhibition, but also the way museums construct and debate ideas of local identity, class origins and celebrity legacy.
Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK, B3 3DH
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RC3CHX - Ulidia Training was set up to improve opportunities for much needed up-skilling and confidence building within marginalised Loyalist communities
Ulidia Training (UT) was established in 2014 and is a voluntary community organisation with a constitution. It is currently applying for a Charities Registration Number.
UT operates from the Ulidian Centre, a shop front premises in Ballymoney, a small town in Country Antrim with a population of around 10,000 people, 80 per cent of which are from a Protestant background (2011 census).
UT was set up to provide improved opportunities for much needed up-skilling and confidence building within marginalised Loyalist communities living in the previously UDA dominated North Antrim and Londonderry constituency.
Through the provision of training, education and essential skills, UT has been assisting ex-prisoners, former combatants and their families and supporters as well as young people at risk of offending or criminal recruitment, in improving their employment and social inclusion opportunities.
UT offers five main strands of activity. -Traditional Skills Training Programme, Cultural Awareness Programme, Major Events Programme, Restorative Justice Programme, Social Enterprise Programme
Although originally intended as a single identity project, UT has played a central role in the organisation and delivery of a number of cross-community and cross-border events over the last twelve months.
The organisation has also been integral in calming volatile community situations and improving inter-community relations through meaningful dialogue with Republican and Nationalist representatives from the area.
Riverside Ct, Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK, BT57 8SF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,festival,drugs,abuse,closed,no access,music,Daresbury,Warrington,Cheshire,England,UK,WA4,road,blocked,off,problem,illegal,parking,camping,tow,away,zone,festivals,disruption,closures,Warringtonians,dance,DJ,gig,ticket,tickets,touts,profiting,buried,police,policing,dealing,dealers
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTD3PF - . This dated editorial view of the recorded location in 2022 captures more than the immediate subject, retaining clues about local use, design, activity and change. The defining feature is Closed, No access to creamfields sign, Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA4. The broader subject matter reaches into passenger information, local bus network, changing land use, roadside transit, bus infrastructure, period detail, cultural branding, local music culture, bus route infrastructure, Beatles memorabilia, public realm, music tourism, local character, and surface public transport. Today's relevance is strengthened by accessibility, reliability and the continuing question of how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare. From a 2025-onward perspective, music tourism and cultural heritage are closely linked to this subject, alongside how popular music is reused in hospitality and tourism branding. The image fixes period objects and surrounding context within the recorded location at one identifiable point, providing a benchmark against different community use. A second descriptive layer includes place identity, historical comparison, contemporary social history, visual archive, music-themed hospitality, cultural nostalgia, passenger transport, and social history. Details involving creamfields, Closed, Daresbury, and access make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. The period setting at the recorded location helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The setting also helps illustrate accessibility and how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The period view preserves a local visual benchmark for future local research. The view records a point of historical comparison before later change alters the scene.
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Her Majestys,service,prisons,here we come,The Smiths,Southall St,England,UK,M60,crime,punishment,Home,office,secretary,sentence,court,courts,system,custody,rehabilitation,smuggle,goods,into,smuggling,suicide,watch,entrance,gate,secure,security,safety,drugs,training,borstal,Cat A,early release,scheme
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JTWGGW - Exterior entrance to HMP Manchester, the high-security men's prison at 1 Southall Street in Manchester city centre, Greater Manchester, England. Still widely known by its former name Strangeways, used until 1994, the prison is one of Britain's best-known custodial institutions and remains closely associated with the landmark 1990 Strangeways riot and continuing debate over conditions, security, rehabilitation and management of the prison estate.
The image has particular editorial relevance during renewed controversy over prisoner release policy in England and Wales. The Sentencing Act 2026 introduces a Progression Model for eligible prisoners serving Standard Determinate Sentences, changing the point at which some offenders can move from custody into intensive community supervision. Government guidance says the reforms are intended to relieve pressure on prison capacity while protecting victims and the public through licence conditions, probation monitoring, risk assessment and recall powers. More than 18,000 offenders are excluded from the new model, including prisoners serving life sentences, Extended Determinate Sentences, IPP sentences and a range of specified serious offences.
The reforms remain politically sensitive. An official UK Parliament petition launched in July 2026 calls for people convicted of rape or murder to be excluded from early release on licence, illustrating continuing public and victims' concerns about risk, sentencing and confidence in the justice system.
HMP Manchester itself has faced recent serious safety concerns. An April 2026 inspection found the prison remained in a precarious condition, with drones bringing substantial quantities of illicit drugs into the jail, high levels of violence, increased assaults on staff and restricted time out of cells. Inspectors reported a 38% positive mandatory drug-test rate, while four self-inflicted deaths had occurred since the previous inspection. HM Inspectorate of Prisons said improved physi
1 Southall St, Cheetham Hill, Manchester,England,UK, M60 9AH
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,@HotpixUK,HotpixUK,England,UK,Hereford,Herefordshire,you,after,temptations,instruction,instructions,lit,lighted,ice cream,cake,cakes,expensive,to,a,an,font,calligraphy,written,writing,take time for yourself,eat,drink,drugs,pamper,personal,treat,positive,wellbeing,enjoy,your,life,its later than you think
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2JPDJJ1 - . Made at England, Great Britain , UK in 2022, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The photograph centres on Treat Yourself, red / pink sign. Another layer of the photograph includes orientation signage, regional identity, place identity, navigation aid, changing streetscape, visitor guidance, contemporary social history, changing land use, visual archive, route marker, period detail, street furniture, wayfinding marker, and public realm. The modern context includes continuing discussion of transport information, clear communication and the need for accessible information that works without digital technology. Future viewers can use this scene from England, Great Britain , UK to compare street furniture and boundaries with whatever follows after new ownership. Further associations within the scene are archival record, before-and-after reference, community identity, local history, local character, roadside information, community noticeboard, and public information signage. The recorded references to Yourself and Treat preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. Around England, Great Britain , UK, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. Another strand within the photograph is transport information and the importance of clear wayfinding in public and transport environments without losing the local specificity of England, Great Britain , UK. The setting also helps illustrate public safety and the importance of clear wayfinding in public and transport environments in a form that can be compared with future views of England, Great Britain , UK. The photograph keeps a local visual benchmark within the wider story of England, Great Britain , UK.
England, Great Britain , UK
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Glasgow,Scotland,UK,tea,restaurant,signs,G2,Chaakoo Bombay Cafe,79 St Vincent Street,G2 5TF,message,messages,warn,to,customer,customers,diner,diners,overhead,cafe,theme,Iranian,vibe,feel,atmosphere,eating,place,all,chai,without,drug,drugs,hanging,ceiling
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE4EC - . Recorded at Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF in 2019, the image fixes a particular place, use and appearance for later comparison as buildings, businesses, signs and public activity change. The view centres on Indian Sign,All Chai is coming strictly without opium,Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF. The image connects the immediate subject with traditional cuisine, comfort food, access-control notice, before-and-after reference, compliance notice, culinary tradition, place identity, public information notice, instructional sign, regional identity, customer guidance, local character, visitor instruction, and public realm. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes regional tourism alongside traditional celebrations, with particular attention to how food traditions survive alongside changing diets and lifestyles. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with venue policy, liability and the role of signs in shaping behaviour without staff intervention. For later comparison, the photograph anchors signage, materials, design and everyday use at the recorded site in Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF. The subject sits alongside ceremonial meal, historic context, safety messaging, regional food culture, rule enforcement, public-facing notice, changing streetscape, and regional speciality. The recorded references to opium, coming, Chaakoo, Indian, and Bombay preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The view records evidence of changing use for later comparison. That local specificity strengthens the long-term documentary value of image 2ADE4EC.
Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE4EY - . Made at Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF in 2019, this photograph records a real place and subject in context, allowing later viewers to compare what has survived, changed, closed, moved or been replaced. At the centre of the frame is Indian Sign,All Chai is coming strictly without opium,Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF. The wider subject matter also includes comfort food, food heritage, cultural gastronomy, contemporary social story.htm Target=_Blank>history, historic context, festive eating, local character, customer guidance, ceremonial meal, regional food culture, public realm, documentary photography, historical comparison, and period detail. Viewed from the mid-2020s, the subject sits within continuing debate about local sourcing, regional tourism and the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations. The present-day relevance extends to public safety and access rules, while a wider concern is the balance between access, safety and venue responsibility. As a dated visual record, the photograph preserves period details that may disappear after redevelopment or refurbishment within Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF. The wider local story also touches on behavioural signage, safety messaging, public-facing notice, place identity, heritage dish, traditional cuisine, food-and-drink tradition, and regional identity. The recorded references to Glasgow, without, Chaakoo, Indian, and strictly preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. For Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The scene captures details of everyday use before later change alters the scene. The period view preserves evidence of changing use as a date-specific reference.
Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Glasgow,Scotland,UK,tea,restaurant,signs,G2,Chaakoo Bombay Cafe,79 St Vincent Street,G2 5TF,message,messages,warn,to,customer,customers,diner,diners,overhead,cafe,theme,Iranian,vibe,feel,atmosphere,eating,place,all,chai,without,drug,drugs,hanging,ceiling
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2ADE4FP - . An authentic period view of Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF in 2019, showing a subject whose value extends beyond the immediate scene into local history and changing social context. The defining feature is Indian Sign,All Chai is coming strictly without opium,Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF. The photograph also reflects site information, food heritage, comfort food, public realm, food-and-drink tradition, local character, traditional cuisine, national food identity, behavioural signage, compliance notice, regional identity, culinary tradition, rule enforcement, and operational signage. The subject remains useful for current coverage of food prices and consumer spending, not least because of the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations. Today's wider story includes access rules, public safety and the practical question of the importance of clear wording in shared public environments. For retrospective editorial use, the photograph preserves the combination of built form, activity and local identity as seen at Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF. The surrounding context also covers historic context, before-and-after reference, visitor instruction, safety messaging, archival record, festive eating, period detail, and traditional recipe. Elements such as Indian, Scotland, Chaakoo, Vincent, and without add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. For Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. Another strand within the photograph is food prices and the role of ceremonial food in annual celebrations without losing the local specificity of Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF.
Chaakoo Bombay Cafe, 79 St Vincent Street, Glasgow,Scotland,UK, G2 5TF
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2RDAWNE - Manchester Pride is a charity that campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality across the United Kingdom, predominantly in Greater Manchester. The Charity offers dialogue, training, research and policy analysis, advocacy and outreach activities focusing on LGBTQ+ rights.
The Manchester Pride Festival is an annual event held on the August bank holiday weekend. It takes place in the Canal Street area, the city's gay village, and fringe locations around the city, while the parade occurs through Manchester city centre. Events have included MCR Pride Live, the Superbia Weekend, the Gay Village Party, Manchester Pride Parade, Youth Pride MCR, Family Pride, The Human Rights Forum, and the Candlelit Vigil. The parade features various supporting organisations and charities and representative floats from the ten metropolitan boroughs of Greater Manchester.
Manchester Pride's headquarters are in Piccadilly, Manchester City Centre. Manchester Pride had a total income of £3,238,817 in the financial year ending 31 December 2021, had 10 employees, and used the services of 242 volunteers. Manchester Pride is regarded as one of the leading pride movement's worldwide, often trialling new innovative initiatives. Thus, it has sponsorships with some of the largest corporations worldwide, such as Virgin Atlantic, TikTok, Starbucks, Marc Jacobs and L'Oreal.
The organisation is managed by a Board of Trustees who are, in turn, Directors of the subsidiary companies Manchester Pride Limited and Manchester Pride Events Limited. The Board of Directors delegate operational functions to a paid Chief Executive Officer who is directly accountable to the board for corporate performance.
36-38 Whitworth Street, Manchester, England, UK, M1 3NR
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy P53BTM - A PRO-DRUGS campaigner is selling cannabis products “ from a former police box.
The red box in Glasgow city centre was once used by officers. But now it is being openly used to sell a smoking product derived from cannabis.
Chris Mackenzie “ who stood for election last month for the UK's first pro-cannabis party “ is handing out drug-legalisation propaganda from the former police box in Sauchiehall Street. The self-confessed cannabis user is also selling e-cigarette liquids containing one of the active compounds found in the plant.
The 26-year-old claims his £30 ˜vape oils' “ which apparently contain cannabidiol (CBD), an extract from the cannabis plant“ can treat a range of medical conditions, including cancer, epilepsy and diabetes.
He joked with undercover reporters last week: ˜There's some irony in selling cannabis products from a
˜It gives you chilled effect but it's legal'
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Cannabis is a class B drug meaning it it is illegal to possess.
Anyone found with the drug could be imprisoned for up to five years while supplying it can be punished with a 14-year jail sentence or an unlimited fine.
The penalty depends on the amount of the drug, the person's criminal history and other aggravating or mitigating factors.
Police can also issue a warning or an on-the-spot fine of £90 to someone found with cannabis.
Alternatively, officers could issue a cannabis warning which goes on a person's record but is not revealed by a standard criminal records check.
Of the 16,101 convictions for cannabis possession in the UK in 2016, 292 were jailed.
The legality of recreational use is not up for debate, the government has said.
What is medicinal cannabis?
Cannabis also contains cannabidiol (CBD) which scientists are investigating as a medical treatment.
CBD-based treatments have shown some promising results for reducing seizures in children with severe epilepsies.
Medical trials have largely focused on pharmacological preparations.
Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MHM6B7 - . Made at the recorded location in 2018, this photograph records a real place and moment, preserving details that may later be altered by redevelopment, rebranding, changing ownership or different public use. The main point of reference is Sandrena Hormone Replacement Therapy HRT, Estradiol, drug for transdermal use on skin. Another layer of the photograph includes social history, architectural character, built heritage, historical comparison, adaptive reuse, changing land use, contemporary social history, heritage asset, everyday life, community identity, visual archive, heritage landmark, period architecture, and historic streetscape. The wider contemporary story combines embodied carbon, adaptive reuse and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility. Small period details of local activity and public use at the recorded location may become more significant with time, particularly following altered transport patterns. Other useful contextual ideas include place identity, changing streetscape, cityscape history, architectural detail, documentary photography, before-and-after reference, local character, and conservation architecture. References to Hormone, transdermal, Therapy, Replacement, and Sandrena give the picture a strong period identity and tie it closely to its named subject. Rather than relying on a broad place description, MHM6B7 gains specificity from the photographed subject, Sandrena Hormone Replacement Therapy HRT, Estradiol, drug for transdermal use on skin, and the period details visible within the frame. The setting also helps illustrate embodied carbon and the value of architectural landmarks to local identity and tourism within the specific setting of the recorded location. The image also provides a reference for adaptive reuse and the balance between conservation, retrofit and modern accessibility as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The image fixes details of everyday use for later comparison.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy H366N4 - This documentary stock photograph shows Pulling a handpull pint in a Yorkshire pub,with empty glasses, England, UK. The subject is rooted in Shipley, Yorkshire and is useful for editorial stories about Yorkshire pub culture, real ale, hand-pulled beer, traditional games and the social life of local pubs. The visible detail and caption make it more valuable than a generic bar or drink image, because it shows a real venue, real pub behaviour or a specific building connected with local social life. British pubs remain important as places to meet, eat, drink, watch sport, play traditional games and maintain informal community networks, while at the same time facing pressure from energy costs, staffing, changing drinking habits, business rates, rent, supermarket alcohol and the shift towards food-led trade. This image can support articles about real ale, hand pumps, cellar-to-bar service, drinkers, pub games such as dominoes, historic pub interiors, public house survival, tourism, hospitality employment, licensing, town-centre economies and the role of pubs in working-class and city life. It can also work for features on CAMRA, beer heritage, cask ale quality, independent pubs, after-work drinkers, railway-station pubs, local economies and nostalgia for sociable, unpretentious public houses. Search-friendly composite terms include traditional British pub culture, real ale handpull pint, Yorkshire pub games, London historic pub, pub hospitality industry, community local, cask beer service, licensed premises and UK evening economy. The documentary approach gives editors a credible image for news, magazine, web, tourism, food and drink, business, leisure, heritage and social commentary use. Where people or hands are visible, the photograph can also suggest the tactile, social side of pubs, including ordering, serving, chatting, playing and lingering rather than simply consuming a product.
Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, UK
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy MHM6BA - . A grounded documentary photograph made at the recorded location in 2018, combining the immediate subject with evidence of the surrounding streetscape, public realm, business activity or local character. At the centre of the view is Sandrena Hormone Replacement Therapy HRT, Estradiol, drug for transdermal use on skin. The frame also records themes of local character, period building, community identity, regional identity, architectural detail, changing streetscape, period architecture, everyday life, contemporary social history, urban fabric, cityscape history, conservation interest, social history, and conservation architecture. The modern context includes continuing discussion of heritage conservation, planning control and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character. For later comparison, the photograph preserves materials and architectural details at the recorded location, details that may look very different after replacement signage. A second descriptive layer includes visual archive, historic townscape, historic streetscape, architectural character, changing land use, period detail, before-and-after reference, and local history. Elements such as Replacement, Therapy, Estradiol, Hormone, and transdermal add documentary specificity and may become increasingly useful when compared with later records. For the recorded location, the photograph contributes to a cumulative visual history in which changes in use, signs, access and appearance can be traced over time. The setting also helps illustrate heritage conservation and keeping older buildings useful without erasing their distinctive character within the specific setting of the recorded location. The image also provides a reference for energy retrofit and how historic buildings acquire new uses as cities change as part of the longer story of the recorded location. The photograph keeps part of the area's social history within the wider story of the recorded location.
