Live experiments at science show

Scientists will be performing live experiments

One of the biggest science festivals in Europe is being launched at the University of Liverpool.

The British Association Festival of Science, will see more than 300 experts give talks and perform live experiments.

The festival dates back 175 years and is aimed at exciting public interest in work in science and discovery.

Topics to be covered this year include: What makes us human?, the environment, food and drink and the universe.

During one of the most famous festivals in 1860, the Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce and biologist Thomas Henry Huxley fell out over Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.