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1. Lecture founder returns to reflect upon 25 years of the Roscoe

   Professor the Lord David Alton returned to St George’s Hall with hundreds of guests from across Liverpool and the LJMU community to reflect on the Roscoe Lecture Series.

2. Premier League match officials receive expert support from LJMU sport scientists

   Four Premier League professional match officials are receiving strength and conditioning training and physiotherapy sessions with LJMU sport scientists, under a new partnership.

3. Honorary Fellowship: Simon Kirby

   Liverpool John Moores University awards Honorary Fellowship to Simon Kirby at Liverpool Cathedral on Tuesday 12 July 2016.

4. Alcatraz, Auschwitz, Chernobyl…the appeal of dark tourism

   Is dark tourism just another fad in the age of the selfie and tick list travelling? Gillian O’Brien explains its appeal and gives it historical context.

5. Cosmic fireworks as distant star ‘squeezed’ by massive black hole

   Daniel Perley and collaborators describe only third Black Hole 'tidal event' on astronomical record in the journal Nature

6. Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age

   In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, an international research team, led by Uppsala University with co-author Linus Girdland-Flink of LJMU, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalithic tombs on Ireland and in Sweden.

7. Honouring Black History Month this October and beyond

   Our LJMU Equality team explains why BHM is so important and what's going on across the university

8. Big Ideas: "This is just the beginning of English Devolution" - expert

   Dr Paul Anderson, an expert in English politics, in a Q&A on devolution

9. 200 firms supported in drive to low carbon economy

   £5.2 million Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory hits milestone and bids for fresh funding

10. Honorary Fellow: Ramsey Campbell

    Oration for Honorary Fellowship award