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Laura Davis: Will my melon see me safely home on the bus?

TODAY’S challenge is to work out how to get a melon home from the office.Read

Teaching teenagers to combat knife crime

Just days after a Liverpool teenager was found guilty of stabbing a friend to death, Laura Davis reports on a new scheme to deter young people from carrying weaponsRead

Laura Davis: What are the stories behind the old photos?

SHE’S pulling tongues on the photograph – eyes scrunched up behind milk bottle lenses and a tumble of curls veiling part of her face.Read

Tea from Brew

Cups of cheer from the tea sorcerer

LAURA Davis tastes the difference in the brave new world of tea-drinkingRead

Does your name suit your personality?

Jack and Grace were the most popular choices for babies born in 2008. Laura Davis asks what’s in a name?Read

Chef Nigel Paul Smith

Chef Nigel Paul Smith: Something for everyone

Laura Davis meets the head chef at National Museums Liverpool, and discovers how he manages to create dishes for all tastesRead

The making of one of our great cities

Laura Davis enjoys Adam Hart Davis’s affectionate look at LiverpoolRead

What we all really need is a wonder full life

THE tooth fairy is having a personality crisis. Somewhere between collecting a seven-year-old’s incisor and dropping it back at base, she has developed a severe case of meanness.Read

Peter Carr: Images of Liverpool

Photographer Peter Carr: The picture is always worth it

PETER Carr tells Laura Davis about his work and the city that inspired award-winning photographyRead

Style City fashion shoot with Anna Priadka and Lanie Wilson

Fashion: Don't lose your cool when keeping warm

THERE'S no need to compromise this winter – Laura Davis has ideas to keep you looking good and feeling cosyRead

Laura Davis: If guilt burned more calories, we’d all be really slim

HOW do you plan to spend your two hours 15 minutes worrying time today?Read

Kelly Reilly: I wanted DC Travis to be flawed, rather than a brilliant young police officer

Lynda La Plante’s latest TV detective is not as tough as her predecessors. Laura Davis finds out moreRead

Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral

Faith, love and prayers for our city of Liverpool

Liverpool Cathedral has asked people to share their hopes for the city in the forthcoming year. Laura Davis reportsRead

Jennie Rooney

Lawyer enters new chapter in her life nominated for book award

IT’S said that everybody has a book inside them, but it’s another matter retrieving the plot from inside your imagination and forming it into words and chapters on a page.Read

A good night is all about the thrill of the chase

IN MY kitchen, Nigella is the oracle. There isn’t a recipe of hers I’ve followed that hasn’t been a total success and, given that I have been known to add a cup of salt instead of a teaspoon or forget the sugar in a Christmas cake, that’s no mean feat.Read

Rescuing the city’s history from the flames

The Bluecoat fire threatened to be the biggest disaster of Liverpool's Culture Year. Laura Davis meets the team who helped save the dayRead

Some traditions are better left in the past

DO ASTRONAUTS, mid-bite of freeze-dried ice cream, look back at the pretty blue-green planet they were standing on only days earlier, and think: “Well, I never thought I’d be doing this”?Read

Professor Garstang, Mrs Garstang, Harold Jones, and an unknown woman, taking tea in a tomb at Beni Hassan

Uncovering ancient Egyptian secrets

As the first visitors take in World Museum Liverpool’s new Ancient Egypt gallery, Laura Davis explores the city’s long-standing fascination with the Land of the PharaohsRead

Obituary: Charles Van Dell Johnson

MEN would usually boast about impressing the silver screen goddess Ingrid Bergman with their wit, charm or large wallet.Read

Real friends never let a good argument get in the way

GREEN shoots burst from tiny seeds and grew into great rainforests that tickled the clouds with the tips of their branches before laying their weary bodies on the ground, where they slowly became thick seams of coal.Read