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Road chiefs are facing crisis talks with the Transport Secretary over the safety of smart motorways, it emerged last night. Grant Shapps is understood to be unimpressed with Highways England’s handling of the controversial roads, which a coroner has described as presenting an ‘ongoing risk of future deaths’. Talks with Highways England’s acting chief executive, Nick Harris, and potentially other senior officials are expected to take place in the coming days. It comes as the Daily Mail can reveal road chiefs were warned nearly ten years ago that smart motorways could lead to deaths and corporate manslaughter charges. Minutes from a 2011 meeting reveal how a lawyer for the Department for Transport raised concerns over converting hard shoulders into permanently live lanes of traffic. Road chiefs are facing crisis talks with the Transport Secretary over the safety of smart motorways, it emerged last night. Pictured: The scene of a fatal crash on the M1 near Sheffield that killed Jason Mer

Nearly two decades after Elizabeth Smart was abducted as a teenager from her Utah home and held captive for nine months, the 33-year-old kidnapping survivor says she has recently started to talk to her three children about her harrowing ordeal. Smart also revealed that her traumatic experience has made her a hyper-vigilant and cautious parent who frequently checks up on her children.  Smart spoke out about her parenting style in a new interview with E! News just days after she was revealed as being a participant on Fox's The Masked Dancer reality show competition, where she appeared as Miss Moth. Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart opened up about parenting after being revealed as Miss Moth on the Fox reality competition The Masked Dancer   Smart, 33, was on the cast of the show, which is a spinoff of the long-running Masked Singer Smart's identity was revealed on January 13, after she was defeated by other contestants  The married mom-of-three said her five-year-old daughter

Four North Carolina men are facing murder, drug and weapons charges after a police officer who pulled their car over for speeding early Monday discovered a bullet-riddled body in the trunk. The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office said a Roanoke Rapids police officer stopped the car at around 1am near the intersection of U.S. Highway 158 and Georgia Avenue. Authorities said the officer opened the trunk of the car and found the body of 23-year-old Trevon Fields, of Roanoke Rapids.    Police in North Carolina have arrested (top row, L to R) Ralik Robinson; Deluntae Squire;  (bottom row, L to R) Trevathan Shearin, and Shantron Person on murder charges after discovered a body in the trunk of a car during a traffic stop  The bullet-riddled body has been identified as that of 23-year-old Trevon Fields 'Hundreds of traffic stops and I have never in my career run across something like this,' Roanoke Rapids Police Chief Bobby Martin told CBS17. 'I had to collect myself for a moment becau

Simone Gold, 55, was among three Los Angeles residents who were arrested on Monday Dr Simone Gold, the Beverly Hills doctor who gained notoriety when she advocated for hydroxychloroquine as treatment against COVID-19, has been detained in connection with the Capitol riots. Gold, 55, was among three Los Angeles residents who were arrested on Monday for the insurrection that occurred in D.C. earlier in the month.  In addition to Gold, 52-year-old Gina Bisignano and 37-year-old John Strand also face charges in connection to the insurrection, the Daily Beast reports.    A criminal complaint for charges against Gold and Strand states that federal authorities were alerted of the pair's attendance at the Capitol after the doctor did an interview with the Washington Post. Simone Gold became easily identifiable after she staged a press conference on the steps of the Supreme Court in July with America's Frontline Doctors - a group she founded last year to speak out against the government

Ghislaine Maxwell’s second deposition in which she spoke about her sex life will be  made public next Tuesday along with dozens of other documents. But the alleged madam for Jeffrey Epstein got a break when the judge in the case ruled that anything relating to ‘private intimate conduct’ should be redacted. Judge Loretta Preska said that anything in the documents about ‘consensual adult behavior’ should stay private too. The hearing at federal court in New York was temporarily disrupted by QAnon conspiracy theorists who were livestreaming the dial-in audio hearing on YouTube.  The phone line to listen in had already hit 500 people by the time the stream posted by a YouTube personality went up and attracted 14,000 viewers. Judge Preska ordered him to stop and said he was ‘operating against the law’ and the stream went down a few minutes later. Maxwell’s case has become an obsession for conspiracy theorists who believe the world is controlled by a group of pedophile Democrats and Hollywoo

An Ohio police officer was shot dead on Monday after a two-hour armed standoff ended in gunfire and also claimed the life of a suspect who was wanted for vandalizing a Toledo cathedral by spray-painting 'Jesus is black' on its walls. Toledo Police Officer Brandon Stalker, 24, was killed at around 6.22pm when Christopher Harris, 27, emerged from a home with 'a firearm in both hands and fired shots in multiple directions,' police said. One of the shots hit and killed Stalker. According to police, multiple officers then returned fire and shot Harris. Both men were pronounced dead at a hospital. Toledo police officer Brandon Stalker, 24 , a father of two, was fatally shot in the head during an armed standoff by vandalism suspect Christopher Harris, 27 Harris was wanted for defacing Toledo's Rosary Cathedral with 'Jesus is black' graffiti and setting fire to its doors on Monday morning  Harris allegedly doused the doors of the cathedral with a flammable liquid a

A tennis star from Kazakhstan has made a sign begging for the chance for players to be let out of hard quarantine in the chaotic lead up to the Australian Open.   Yulia Putintseva is the latest in a slew of tennis stars to complain about not being allowed out of their hotel rooms for 14 days, with no chance to train, in the lead-up to the year's first Grand Slam tournament. A total of 72 players have been forced into 14 days of hard lockdown because other passengers on their incoming flights - from Abu Dhabi, Doha and Los Angeles - had tested positive for Covid-19. The players are at a significant disadvantage in preparing for the Open, as other players who were not on those flights are allowed out of their rooms for five hours a day to practice. Putintseva, No. 28 in the WTA rankings, posted a photo to Instagram of herself holding up a sign that reads: 'We need fresh air to breathe'.   Yulia Putintseva is the latest in a slew of tennis stars to slam the Victorian Governmen