Smart motorway safety tech not as effective as Highway England suggested

Technology being built into smart motorways to improve their controversial safety credentials might only detect around 85 per cent of stranded vehicles – and leave thousands of motorists a year vulnerable to potentially life-threatening collisions, a report has revealed. Stationary Vehicle Detection (SVD) systems are due to be rolled out across all smart motorways in … Read more

Redditors push silver to eight-year high after user suggested ‘punishing’ banks

Redditors have pushed silver to an eight-year record high after a user by the name of ‘TheHappyHawaiin’ suggested punishing banks for betting against a prise rise. Silver prices rose by as much as 13 percent on Monday – to $30 per ounce – putting the rare metal on course for its biggest single-day percentage gain … Read more

Carey Mulligan on why she called out a film critic who suggested she wasn’t hot enough for role

Carey Mulligan has explained why she chose to speak out about a film review that suggested she wasn’t hot enough to play the lead character in Promising Young Woman.  In the review, written by freelance film critic Dennis Harvey and first published by Variety in January last year, Mulligan is labeled as an ‘odd choice’ … Read more

Chrissy Teigen defends herself on social media after user who suggested her tweet was tone-deaf

Chrissy Teigen defends herself on social media … as she says user who suggested her tweet about a horse was tone-deaf ‘misinterpreted’ her words By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 05:22 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 05:22 GMT, 18 January 2021 Chrissy Teigen defended herself on social media Sunday, saying a tweet she sent about a … Read more

Police reveal missing British hiker’s domestic life ‘was not as idyllic as social media suggested’

Police have revealed that missing British hiker Esther Dingley’s domestic life ‘was not as idyllic as social media suggested’ as footage has emerged showing her just days before her fateful walk. CCTV video shows Miss Dingley in a supermarket in the Spanish Pyrenees, where a shopper who saw her described her as looking ‘sad and … Read more

Twitter is testing new ‘Suggested Follows’ feature that suggests dozens of accounts to add at once

Twitter is testing new ‘Suggested Follows’ feature that suggests dozens of accounts users can add all at once with a push of a button Twitter is experimenting with a ‘Suggested Follows’ feature Users can add a group of related accounts all at once, rather than one at a time Twitter suggests accounts to users based … Read more

Britons try government’s online job quiz after Rishi Sunak suggested unemployed could retrain

Hard-hit workers in Britain’s creative industries have flocked to the Government’s online ‘skills assessment’ quiz for new career recommendations after Rishi Sunak suggested people should retrain if they lose jobs to Covid. Several creatives – including actors, authors and theatre directors – took to Twitter to share the outcomes of their 15-minute questionnaire. Some had … Read more

Fauci says US fatalities NOT exaggerated after data suggested only 9,000 people died of COVID alone

The nation’s top infectious disease expert has addressed new data revealing that nearly every American who has died of coronavirus also had underlying conditions.   According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 94 percent of those who have died of COVID-19 had at least one pre-existing health issue such as high blood pressure, … Read more

Jonathan Ross’s daughter Honey slams diets suggested by parents

Jonathan Ross’ daughter Honey has revealed he and wife Jane Goldman presented her with ‘absolutely toxic’ diets when she felt unhappy about her weight as a teen.  On Loose Women on Tuesday, the writer and activist, 23, said she ‘hated her body’ and that her parents ‘tried to give her solutions to her problem’ which … Read more

Twitter mob rounds on Kirstie Allsopp after she suggested employees SHOULD return to the office

A Twitter mob of outraged work-from-home Britons who do not want to return to the office have rounded on Kirstie Allsop for suggesting that they are more at risk of losing their jobs in the coming wave of mass coronavirus redundancies.   The Location, Location, Location presenter said that those working from home should be eager … Read more