Articles by Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers

UK academics say latest chemicals are ‘wake-up call’ and urge global action to stop weaponisation of neuroscience

Officers accused of using violence and threats to make Peter Sullivan confess to 1987 murder of 21-year-old Diane Sindall

Lisa Nandy says government hopes to build on success of cities of culture programme, with £3.5m for winner

Adrian Daulby sustained shot to chest as he attempted to prevent attacker from entering synagogue

Family of Bella Culley, 19, paid £138,000 in deal that could result in a two-year sentence in former Soviet republic

Figure caught on camera at Chester Castle among accounts of eerie goings on at historic properties

Walker Art Gallery highlights contemporary artists and ‘connections, histories and legacies’ to mark 250 years since Turner’s birth

Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated

Seventeen prints from The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate are largest group of Hockney’s iPad works to come to market

Six other men sentenced to terms of up to 29 years after two girls treated as ‘sex slaves’ from the age of 13

First named storm of season expected to bring heavy rain and winds over 80mph to northern and western regions

First named storm of season to bring heavy rain and winds over 80mph to northern and western regions