Corbis has announced the launch of a million pound project that it hopes will ensure its Sygma Collection of photographs survives the test of time.

The new "shoebox" can be found in a secure location just outside a sleepy town on the outskirts...

As Corbis announces the launch of a multi-million pound facility to protect and archive its 50 million photo Sygma collection in France, what can you and I do to protect our pictures at home if we haven't got a spare couple of million kicking around?