The 40-year-old US pop star is part of a six-woman crew flying to space on Jeff Bezos’s New Shepard NS-31 mission.

The M6 is currently closed between junctions 22 for Winwick and 23 for Haydock as emergency services tackle a huge lorry fire on the motorway.

The Army has been called in to help tackle the rubbish piling up on Birmingham’s streets as bin workers vote on a “partial deal” aimed at ending their all-out strike.