For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here. Victoria will get an extra 1500 Pacific Islander workers to fill shortages on farms, but the farming federation has warned more quarantine facilities are urgently needed to meet the agriculture industry’s needs. The state government has faced criticism in recent weeks from the sector amid fears that demand for workers would […]

For years, Dr Tarmo Raadik had heard rumours of extra-large yabbies from the old farmers and fishermen he met in his job as an aquatic research scientist. But it wasn’t until a woman who lived near Lake Nillahcootie in central Victoria brought him an exoskeleton – the tough outer shell – of an unusual crayfish in 1995 that he had […]

Tony Blair calls for more UK counter-terrorism measures We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Tony Blair spoke at the RUSI think tank to commemorate 20 years […]

BREAKING NEWS: Girl, 6, is killed in accident on Haunted Mine Drop ride at Colorado amusement park which plunges 110 feet into a mountain Girl, 6, was visiting Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park with family on Sunday  She suffered fatal injuries while riding the Haunted Mine Drop  Haunted Mine Drop is ride inside mountain which plunges some 110 feet  Ride, which […]

Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt remains an “unavoidable and inconvenient” distraction although the Invercargill City Council is in a vastly better place, a new review of the embattled council says. In his six-month review report, released yesterday, Richard Thomson largely focused on how the council was performing, both in governance and management, much more cohesively than it was half a year […]

‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson says Scotland’s Covid cases are already ‘plateauing’ three weeks after secondary school surge in hope for rest of UK as millions of pupils go back today Professor Neil Ferguson said data suggested Scotland was seeing the ‘hint of a plateau’ in daily infections Cases more than doubled in the country after children returned to classrooms following […]

The wife of a surfer who was torn apart by a Great White Shark has described their final moments together as he said goodbye to her and their unborn child. Dad-to-be Timothy Thompson, 31, died after the shark tore his arm off in the waters off Emerald Beach in Coffs Harbour, Australia. One witness told how they heard the mortally-injured […]

BRITAIN and the EU are set to shake on ANOTHER delay to tricky Brexit border rules in Northern Ireland to avoid a new Sausage War. No 10 is on course to seal a further stay of execution from a planned Brussels ban on exports of Great British bangers to NI. But the two sides look destined to clash over how […]

‘I didn’t ask for this – I tried to stop him but I couldn’t’: Girl, 15, who was raped in the sea in front of thousands of holidaymakers speaks about horrific ordeal for the first time as she says she now can’t face going out Girl, 15, was playing in the sea at Bournemouth surrounded by holidaymakers  She was approached […]