Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
UNIVERSITY funding for humanities subjects must be sustained if the UK is to keep its place on the world stage, the head of the British Academy said today. Such disciplines contribute to the UK’s health, wealth and international reputation, Sir Adam Roberts said. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
CHILDREN as young as five should be given lessons in sex and relationships, according to a health watchdog. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
TRIBUTES have been paid to a “selfless, brave and fearless” Royal Marine, from Warrington, who died in hospital in Britain after being injured in Afghanistan. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
AT FIRST glance, Paris and Liverpool make for unlikely twins. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy is looking to Liverpool for inspiration for a major regeneration of Paris. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
LABOUR councillors were last night accused of carving up key positions on a Merseyside authority for themselves and cashing in thousands of pounds in the process. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
TAXI drivers set off in convoy from Liverpool with car-loads of children for their annual trip to Camelot yesterday. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
LEADERS of each of the four bidding teams hoping to be crowned the UK’s first City of Culture have been in Liverpool to make their final pitch. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
LEISURE facilities across west Cheshire could be taken over by a charitable trust. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
A RARE single malt has sold for just over £25,000, making it one of the world’s most expensive bottles of whisky, auctioneers say. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
THE Runcorn Bridge and a new university boiler house are in the running for a top Prime Ministerial architecture prize. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
A HEALTH trust has launched an investigation after a cancer patient was allegedly told he could not book a hospital appointment – because he was dead. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
SOCIAL workers and other agencies which worked with Shannon Matthews’s family for 13 years could not have prevented her abduction by her own family, a report said last night. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
OFFICIALS at Liverpool FC have called in a top training team – to coach the Kop’s tour guides. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
THE former head of the Office of Fair Trading will lead the coalition Government’s commission to examine the potential break-up of Britain’s biggest banks, Chancellor George Osborne said yesterday. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
OVER The Rainbow contestant Stephanie Davis and former Brookside star Alex Fletcher are to join the cast of Hollyoaks as a new Liverpudlian family. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
FAILING to shop around for will preparation and executor services could be costing consumers around £40m a year, the Office of Fair Trading warned yesterday. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
HILL DICKINSON is holding its third developers conference at Chester Zoo. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
Armstrongs’ Ian Carruthers warns against ditching health and safety laws Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
LAW firm EAD is closing its Old Swan office. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
WITNESSES who are schooled in the way barristers are going to question them give more accurate court testimony, researchers in Liverpool have found. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
DAVID CAMERON sparked anger yesterday when he claimed a £1bn Labour aid fund to pump-prime vital new industries across the North had been “fiddled”. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
A MERSEYSIDE company has been convicted of health and safety breaches in connection with the Buncefield oil depot explosion. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
THE first of Wirral’s new and improved Youth Hubs has been launched in a fire station. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
AN EYESORE corner of Liverpool’s World Heritage Site is set to be transformed into an office block with space for 500 workers. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
A TELEVISION star which has been familiar to viewers for six years is to be sold off to raise cash for charity – the BBC Springwatch sofa. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
ALMOST 1,000 deaths from advanced breast cancer could be prevented each year if England’s survival rates matched those in Norway and Sweden, research showed today. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
A SAND sculpture competition and BBQ are being held in Wirral to kick off the summer’s activities. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
MERSEYSIDE tax payers could save millions of pounds if a new hi-tech waste processing plant is given the go-ahead, a public inquiry heard. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
PRIMARY school pupils have been learning about the dangers of passive smoking. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
TALKS aimed at resolving the British Airways cabin crew dispute have ended without agreement. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
CONSUMER groups voiced dismay last night after Euro-MPs rejected the most popular form of food nutrition labelling – a “traffic-light” colour coding system already in wide use. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
WIRRAL Council is to pay out more than £5,000 in compensation after a blunder by planners led to a family living in a caravan for an extra year while they waited for their home to be built. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
NORTH End Writers is holding its first songwriting project this summer. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
BUDDING John Lennons and Paul McCartneys took to the stage at Liverpool’s Royal Court for the chance to star in a musical about Lennon’s life. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
THE new OFSTED inspection regime came under fire yesterday as figures showed almost half of schools were not giving pupils a good education. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
FORMER Everton and England footballer Paul Gascoigne, is expected to remain in hospital for several more days following a serious car crash, a hospital spokeswoman said last night. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
A DRASTIC lowering of the legal drink-drive limit, random breath tests and possible permanent driving bans for persistent offenders were recommended yesterday in a Whitehall-commissioned report. Read
Jun 17 2010 | Liverpool News
SMASH hit musical Wicked has conjured up box office magic by grossing £100m in the UK. Read