Ned Kelly bushranger and Australian folk hero

Sydney Nolan’s  ‘Ned Kelly’ 1946

The skeleton of Ned Kelly will finally be returned to his descendants 132 years after he was executed.
Last year, scientists identified Ned Kelly’s skeleton after it was found in a mass grave outside a now-closed prison.
The decision ends the family’s long quest to find and properly bury the remains of a man many Australians now consider a folk hero.

Ned Kelly is the only bushranger known to have left a detailed written justification of his actions, and his 'manifesto' is regarded by many as an early call for a republican Australia.  The 56-page document he tried to have published at Jerilderie -New South Wales, in February 1879 appears to be the final working of one that was first circulated at Euroa in December 1878.

It reflects the voice of a man who feels he has been deeply wronged. He admits to crimes but claims he was forced into them by a corrupt police force. He demands that squatters share their property with the poor.

Copies of the document were made by the police and by publican John Hanlon. John Hanlon's transcription of the Jerilderie letter was later purchased by the National Museum of Australia .

Cloud Atlas - from the Met Office archives

New Zealand plate stack: New Zealand's Southern Alps run along almost the entire length of the country's South Island.   In the bottom right of this picture you can see the peak of one of these 3,000m mountains. When the wind coming from the Pacific in the west hits them, it bounces off, causing clouds to become altocumulus lenticularis, a pile of plates shaped like the lens of an eye.

Sunset stratiformis:                                                                     Altocumulus stratiformis floating idly over central England. A stratiformis is simply a horizontal layer of cloud. They float at a medium height, which can be from around 2438m to 6096m

In this picture, windflow at Robinson Crusoe island ? off the coast of Chile ? hits the island's edge (bottom left), causing the clouds about the islands to spin off in clockwise vortices to create this incredible satellite shot

The ash cloud from the Icelandic volcanic eruption is captured on a satellite image as it approached the UK.

The drifting ash from the volcano Grimsvotn, in the top left of the picture, was taken by Nasa's Terra satellite, has been published by Dundee University's Satellite Receiving Station.

The white cloud sitting over north west Scotland is a low pressure system which has brought high winds and heavy rain to many areas of Britain.

The winds were coming from a north-westerly direction, blowing anti-clockwise round the low pressure system, drawing the ash plume from the volcano towards the northern half of Britain.