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Gates Foundation funds Liverpool research
The Liverpool School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine has received ?1.2 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for its work in eliminating the disfiguring disease elephantiasis. The money will enable the school to bring six students a year from countries where the disease is rife for leadership training.

Beware Teesside pop fraudsters
No pop-group auditions are taking place at Teesside University this weekend. The university has put out a warning after members of the public were duped into paying ?10 to confidence tricksters who had advertised the non-existent auditions. Anyone concerned should contact Cleveland Police on 01642 249406.

Fruit flies help tackle Alzheimer's
Fruit flies are helping scientists in their search for a cure to Alzheimer¡¯s disease. Researchers at Southampton University are looking at the nerve cells of flies in the hope of testing new therapeutic drugs.