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A stretch of the M11 has been closed following a fence fire next to the carriageway.

Cat Deeley's heatwave outfit was not a hit with her ITV co-star Susanna Reid.

His mother is an ex-tennis player, his millionaire father bought a top-tier football club - but UK Wimbledon wildcard Arthur Fery is eyeing up sporting success of his own.

Wimbledon tennis veterans and television mingled with royalty as they took their seats in the Royal Box on Day Nine of Wimbledon today.

The group left behind a pitch strewn with dirty nappies, cans, and a car seat in the aftermath, forcing the football club to spend a day cleaning the site.

A 13-year-old had her request denied to move to an empty houseblock at St Mary's Kenmure at Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, after saying she felt 'unsafe' being with young offender adolescent boys.

All traffic has been held on the M25 following a collision near Waltham Abbey in Essex.

All traffic has been held on the M25 following a collision near Waltham Abbey in Essex.

ValueLicensing celebrates while Redmond considers next steps

Baroness Louise Casey said the current 'patchwork' system meant accessing care for elderly relatives had become 'almost impossible' for many struggling families.

n a new interview on the podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler , Matt spoke about how he had to have a 'complete' lifestyle change for The Odyssey filming.

The United States have been dumped out of the World Cup, humiliated 4-1 by Belgium - and the gleeful reaction of the rest of the world that followed. 

They now face being flooded with appeals about disciplinary matters from other World Cup teams - and the complaints have already started rolling in.

The lack of a firm target means services could be cut back, with more patients left waiting months or years while their condition worsens, she added.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has been met with huge praise in critics' first reactions after the global premiere in London on Monday.

Jenny was embarrassed to show me her rash initially, but she desperately needed relief.

Donald Trump said Keir Starmer was 'no longer there' as he again criticised the premier's refusal to join in his chaotic Iran war.

Commonly known as MS, multiple sclerosis is a debilitating disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's nervous system. It affects around 150,000 people in the UK.

As one of the foundation stones of a fully functioning and successful Manchester United team, there was a time when Rio Ferdinand could call himself an analyst.

A new study suggests multilingualism may slow brain aging, with bilingual people showing brains that appear about six years younger than monolingual speakers and people who speak four languages showing brains that appear up to 13 years younger. Researchers say earlier language learning and higher proficiency appear to strengthen the effect. The Guardian reports: Our brains are made up of billions of nerve cells that communicate with one another. But as we get older, the connectivity in our brains often deteriorates, causing memory and speed of thought to decline. While previous research had observed that people from European countries with greater language proficiency tended to age more slowly, this study measured the impact of speaking languages on individual brains. Scientists in Spain, Chile, Argentina and Dublin compared people living in the Basque region -- characterized by high levels of multilingualism -- who spoke Spanish, Basque, French and/or English. To measure neurological age, the scientists used magnetoencephalography to measure the brain activity of 728 people with varying ages and levels of linguistic ability. They then used AI to process the results to calculate a normal level of brain connectivity at any given age. A second unrelated group of 144 people were then scanned and compared, comprising equal numbers of people speaking one, two, three or four languages. Dr Lucia Amoruso, from the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in San Sebastian, said: "In simple terms, people who spoke more languages tended to have brains that looked younger than expected for their chronological age. The effect was not only related to the number of languages spoken. Higher language proficiency and earlier acquisition of a second language were also associated with more delayed brain ageing. This suggests that multilingual experience matters as a gradient: it is not simply about being bilingual or not, but about the depth and duration of language experience."

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