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The former secretary general of the Council of Europe (CoE), Terry Davis, who has died aged 86, was a Birmingham Labour MP for 28 years, and was popular in his constituency because he understood the problems of the area, where he had been born and where he had himself worked …

‘I’m definitely feeling much better,”

Andrey Rublev

Tucked away in the village of Leasowe, near Moreton on the Wirral peninsula west of Liverpool, the US pharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) is building a new £35m glass-clad laboratory building.

It is part of a growing

life sciences cluster in and around Liverpool

Callum Simpson defended his British and Commonwealth super-middleweight titles with a second-round stoppage of Steed Woodall on an emotional night in Sheffield.

Simpson was fighting for the first time

since the death of his sister

The prospect of

a tough public sector spending review

Britain could be plunged back into months of industrial action if public spending cuts include restrictions on pay. …

Aldous Huxley wrote about the spiritual visions he had

while taking the drug mescaline

But now a growing number of …

Elena Rybakina has backed her former coach Stefano Vukov and expressed her disagreement with the Women’s Tennis Association as the governing body continued its investigation into the Croat on the eve of the Australian Open.

“I don’t agree with a lot of things what the WTA do in the sense …

A protection zone has been set up after an outbreak of bird flu in Angus, Scotland’s chief veterinary officer has said.

On Friday night Sheila Voas said a 10km (6.8-mile) surveillance zone was also declared around the area as well as the 3km protection zone in Kirriemuir after a highly …

“I’ve heard her voice in training sometimes,” Callum Simpson says quietly as looks up in his apartment in Dewsbury and remembers his sister Lily-Rae who, just over four months ago,

died tragically

Labour MPs have urged Rachel Reeves to demand Jimmy Lai’s release when she becomes the first UK chancellor to make an official visit to China in nearly a decade.

Nine Labour MPs have joined a cross-party call for Reeves to raise the detention of political prisoners in Hong Kong and …