AWARD-WINNING British film director and screenwriter Terence Davies is among those receiving honorary degrees from the University of Liverpool this week.

City-born Davies’s documentary, Of Time And The City, used vintage newsreel footage to depict post-war Liverpool.Š

TV producer Phil Redmond and Lewis Booth, executive vice-president of Ford Motor Company, will also be honoured.

Other recipients include Mark Blundell, the founder of Crosby Hall Educational Trust, which operates as a children’s residential centre to support social and educational development.

He also does community work for Tate Liverpool.

Professor Sir David Lane, the scientist who discovered the trigger behind the development of half of human cancers, is another being honoured.

Also being recognised are Dame Janet Nelson, the Royal Historical Society’s first-ever woman president; Dame Lorna Muirhead, the Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside; leading materials chemist Professor CNR Rao and Andrew Pettigrew, a professor at the Said Business School at Oxford University.