9 h. ago Chris Kamara: ‘Speech apraxia diagnosis left me feeling rock bottom’

Chris Kamara has opened up about his battle with speech apraxia in an exclusive interview with The Independent at the Pride of Britain Awards.

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22 h. ago This Morning's Ben Shephard left 'thrilled' as he makes exciting announcement

This Morning star Ben Shephard has shared an exciting new announcement with fans, as he teams up with his long-time friend Chris Kamara.

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5 d. ago Celebrity Traitors star Alan Carr addresses health scare he 'can actually feel getting worse'

Comedian Alan Carr has opened up about a health diagnosis that has left him requiring 'frightening' treatment

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8 d. ago 'I was left in agony for seven years before finally receiving a diagnosis'

Poppy Harris, 20, from Aberdeen, was just 13 years old when she started experiencing endometriosis symptoms, but it took another seven years before she was given the official diagnosis

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1 week ago ‘Visual medicine’: Jamel Shabazz’s evocative photos of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park

The photographer’s new book collects his pictures of the mammoth New York City park from the 1980s up until nowThere is, allegedly, a commonly held belief among landscape architects familiar with New York City: for Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, the designers of both Central Park and Prospect Park, the former was merely practice for the latter.Located in Brooklyn, Prospect Park, 300 acres smaller than the Manhattan landmark, has a specifically insular quality. A surrounding urban horizon is obscured from view by old-growth forest and 175 species of trees; the park is beholden to its own rhythms, with natural waterfalls, grand lawns stretched across the borough’s glacial rock formations, and fewer adjacent towering buildings. Visiting feels like a quiet reprieve. For the Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, Prospect Park has long been, as he writes in his newly released book, Prospect Park: Photographs of a Brooklyn Oasis, 1980 to 2025, “one of my best teachers a giver ...

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1 week ago BBC Traitors' Joe Marler's devastating diagnosis that left him crying on way to work

Joe Marler is one of the 19 famous faces taking part in the new BBC reality show Celebrity Traitors

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1 week ago BBC Celebrity Traitors' Joe Marler's devastating diagnosis that left him in tears

Former rugby ace Joe Marler is one of the 19 celebrities taking part in the BBC's Celebrity Traitors

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1 week ago Joe Marler’s devastating diagnosis that left him crying ‘24 hours a day’

Rugby star Joe has signed up for the celebrity version of BBC hit The Traitors

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3 w. ago Millwall star Lukas Jensen admits dad’s prostate cancer diagnosis left him feeling helpless hundreds of miles from home

MILLWALL keeper Lukas Jensen received bombshell news from his dad Brian that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. It was a phone call that not only numbed him — but also made him feel helpless. The Danish keeper was only 23 and the fear his then 60-year-old dad may no longer be in his...

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