I must congratulate my friends at Amateur Photographer magazine for coming up with a great idea to both promote their publication and to provide a worthy and handy freebie to their readers; a lens cleaning cloth that has a summary of the rights that photographers in the UK have to take pictures in public.

Naturally, I hope nobody will ever have a need to refer to the text on the cloth, but if you are unfairly pressurised by an ignorant security guard, police officer or police community support officer (PCSO) then your will be more likely to have the cleaning cloth at hand in your camera bag and available to support your rights.

Well done AP - the cloth is cover mounted on the issue dated 10th July, which goes out to subscribers this weekend and goes on sale in the newsagents early next week.