It's Lights, camera, action, for young film makers from Hull whose work will be shown at a prestigious national film festival.

Thousands of people are expected to gather in the centre of Hull this weekend for the Freedom Festival. Final preparations are being made for Saturday's event, which starts at noon and ends with a fireworks display. It promises to be one of the city's biggest live music and drama shows.

A REVAMP of the national curriculum will see secondary school pupils learn about Britain's involvement in the slave trade. The abolition of slavery and how the trade was linked to the British Empire, are to be taught in schools.

By Richard Garner Radical changes to the secondary school timetable will be introduced next week when England's three million secondary school pupils return to the classroom.

Of the two historically black universities near Dayton, Central State University has been most often in the news. It has gone through major and painful changes, and has done so publicly, because it is a public institution. How much money it has depends a lot upon politicians.