More than 100 cars and lorries have been involved in three pile-ups on a fog-shrouded Belgian autoroute leaving at least one person dead and 54 injured.

ROLLING hills, scattered woodland and quaint towns known for their breweries in South West Belgium are the very picture of rural charm.

Belgians marked the 87th anniversary of the end of the First World War today, with sombre ceremonies planned at the nation’s tomb of the unknown soldier and the playing of the Last Post at the famous Menen Gate in the town of Ieper, which saw some of the fiercest fighting of the “Great War”.