内容摘要：She told the BBC that she had been touched by their "pure selflessness", and she and her brother had one day joined them to clean a stretch of a street market in the heart of Accra.

She told the BBC that she had been touched by their "pure selflessness", and she and her brother had one day joined them to clean a stretch of a street market in the heart of Accra.

“They had a naivety and innocence but they were also super smart, and very literate – they had lots of intellectual references to books and art, and Richey was the same."He was just really lovely and really charming and cool, and really good fun to photograph.”

In a foreword at the beginning of the book, bandmate Nicky Wire said: “We thought these photos were lost but they are found."I’m so grateful to Valerie for those intense twenty months when she saw all the energy and ragged glory of Manic Street Preachers and more importantly, captured our little bit of history seen here in these vivid, beautiful photographs.“During this time she documented every element of our rise from a terraced house in Wales to our first top ten hit,” he added.

“These photographs are revelatory and so evocative – I can smell the hairspray, I can taste the alcohol.”The band's frontman James Dean Bradfield said seeing the photos for the first time brought back fond memories.

"You look at the albums and you wince at some of the haircuts," he told

"But we didn’t wince at many of the haircuts, we’re quite proud of those haircuts.”Kate Buckby, a volunteer who helps supervise woodworking sessions, said: "There's a lot of young people with learning difficulties and elderly people. I get them as a group, supervise them and jolly them along.

"There's a real mix of people - some just want to sit and enjoy the space. It just helps their headspace to be down here."BBC Radio Northampton is supporting

, an annual festival focused on mental health wellbeing with an emphasis on schools this year.Teachers at a secondary school have gone on strike over poor student behaviour, their union representatives said.