"I said, 'Great - so was I'."

Bristol is known for its festivals, particularly in the summer, and this weekend the biggest event in the city returned.Temperatures soared on Friday as the Bristol Harbour Festival kicked off with an evening of live music.

It is also graduation season for our two universities, and good news for one of the biggest primary schools in the city.Brave souls: The biggest event that takes place in the city - the Bristol Harbour Festival - began on Friday. One of the mainstays of the annual celebration of the city's waterways is the cardboard boat race, which many crews took part in on Saturday (above and below).The Harbour Festival continues

Studies over: It's graduation time and thousands of students from both UWE and the University of Bristol have been putting on their robes and mortar boards for the ceremonies to honour their academic studies.A new venue: For the first time, UWE is holding its graduation ceremonies at Bristol Beacon, with some 6,000 graduates expected to pass through the doors to celebrate this month.

Go west: Off Piste Ski Trip - the largest black winter sports group in the UK – swapped snowboards for surfboards with 60 people from London spending time at The Wave in Bristol this week. Off Piste was set up to encourage more members of the black community to try skiing and snowboarding, and is now looking at other sports where black communities are under-represented.

Taking their time: Kingswood RFC Titans hosted what the club believes is the largest walking rugby festival in the world on 13 July, with 44 teams from 34 clubs participating - 450 players in total.While the group gave space to walkers to open up about specific events or experiences, Mr Winterson explained it was also an opportunity to escape the pressures of day-to-day life.

"Men tend to bottle everything up - 'pull your socks up', 'stiff upper lip', 'man up,' - which is a phrase I think we've all used over the years but the world's a changing place."Just being there for each other, being there to listen, being there to support is really important and that's why we come out every week."

A paedophile who stole a terminally ill man's identity and spent almost three decades on the run has been convicted of 54 child sex abuse charges.Richard Burrows "acted like a coward and fled the country" leaving his victims to suffer, police said after he was convicted at Chester Crown Court.