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The Essex MPs will serve unpaid roles within the Government's functions

Jimmy's Farm has announced the death of its 16-year-old Asiatic lion, Kamal who was the oldest of its kind in captivity in Britain.

Raza Aslam, 44, was one of eleven people treated in hospital following the mass stabbing on the 6.25pm Doncaster to London King's Cross LNER service on November 1 last year.

The futuristic service promises to cut out one of the most stressful parts of flying - and travellers won't even have to hand over their keys.

If you want to do your bit to save the planet, you might think that opting for free-range organic eggs would be the most eco-friendly choice.

Greggs has set a goal of opening 100 stores a year to reach its target estate of 3,500. It has 2,773 shops currently.

The Radio 5 Live presenter to be replaced by Naga Munchetty said she was 'struggling to hold it together' as she announced she would be leaving the job on Tuesday after 15 years. 

Ofgem said it wanted to tackle speculative data centre projects clogging up Britain's electricity connections queue.

If you've ever wondered what makes a pair of eyes truly captivating, scientists may finally have the answer.

At the age of 65, I have reached crunch point. I'm sick of weird diets and I'm seriously fed up with feeling hungry. I'm also really hacked off at still being fat

He has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment

Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club has announced they are leaving Wormingford Airfield after 36 years in search of a new home.

Essex and Suffolk Gliding Club has announced they are leaving Wormingford Airfield after 36 years in search of a new home.

Lorraine Kelly's daughter Rosie is married!

Officials in Florida on Tuesday took the 'incredibly rare' step of executing two separate death row inmates - a former cop and an 80-year-old man - in a single day.

Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places

News broke on Tuesday that FIFA boss Infantino was considering selling parts of the tournament to private investors and forming a new company in a deal that could be worth around £15billion.

If approved in a planning meeting today, the 66-bed facility would be the eighth nursing home in the tiny Norfolk town of Diss, in addition to 23 residential care homes.

For more than two years, Cameron and Sue Evans carved out an idyllic life as expat retirees in the tiny rural hamlet of Fuente del Albarico, 230 miles east of Malaga in southern Spain.

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: [I]n a new study published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center in the U.S. have revealed that we can put certain tasks on autopilot in a way that enables something closer to true multitasking. Driving is the perfect example: When you take your test, your entire mental and physical energy is concentrated on executing the right combinations of movements and thoughts. After a decade behind the wheel, the brain is no longer consciously thinking everything through in great detail. In the new study, the researchers found that after extensive practice, the brain can effectively reroute some tasks around the brain's main computing center -- like a bypass road around a city -- to reduce mental overload and improve multitasking capability. "We have another stepping stone in our understanding of how the brain learns," says neuroscientist Maximilian Riesenhuber, senior author of the study. "The encouraging part is that you really can learn to multitask. There is actually a way to remodel your brain architecture and use other parts of your brain." [...] "Previous studies have shown that parts of the temporal cortex can be activated by particular object categories in experienced observers -- birds, cars, even Pokemon -- but a limitation of all of those studies is that they only looked after people became experts," says psychologist Patrick Cox, first author of the study. "We measure before and after training, so we can see that extensive training essentially put a category-selective area in the temporal lobe that was not there before." The study culminated in a dual-task experiment, in which the participants were asked to identify cars and take on another challenge. The individuals whose brains had offloaded more car-sorting work to the temporal cortex did better at the second task.

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