A Victorian government website that provides Australians with the home addresses of strangers with a few well placed keystrokes is operating with impunity.
Lisburn blinds firm further expands with US shutter acquisition Gary McDonald Business Editor
Mzuri Holdings managing director Stuart Dickson
THE holding company of Decora Blind Systems in Lisburn has made another significant acquisition.
Mzuri Group, established in 2018 by the owners of Decora Blinds to enable a growth strategy, has bought TCMM Shutter Group for an undisclosed sum.
It’s the fourth acquisition announced by the Lisburn company since the British Growth Fund (BGF) bought a £10 million minority stake in the company two years ago.
Founded in 2002, TCMM has become one of the largest interior wood shutter distributors in the UK. Its retail brands including Shutterly Fabulous and California Blinds, and it has an additional operation in the USA under the Shutter Store brand.
Stalking victim Di McDonald wants Max Gardiner forced to wear tracker on release from prison
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Di McDonald still lives in fear of Max Gardiner who was convicted of stalking her.
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Di McDonald lives on high alert. Her stalker, Max Gardiner, gets out of jail on Sunday and she fears he will come looking for her.
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MP Tania Maxwell says stalking is not taken seriously enough
The State Government says Ms McDonald can make an application to vary Gardiner s Community Corrections Order
Earlier this week, she rang her local police station and was given the same advice that she was given five years ago when the stalking started.
Our best summer reads of 2020
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An unlikely friendship that is helping save an Indonesian island was one of our picks for summer.
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You re now about to discover if short-term pandemic brain is an actual condition or just a meme.
If you made it to the end of this sentence congratulations, you may officially be in recovery. (Not that our state-by-state outbreaks are in recovery but let s not talk about that right now: let s have a week off.)
Instead, I m delighted to wrap up for you some of our best summer reads this year some longer, some shorter depending on your end-of-year attention levels and they traverse all the good, bad and COVID-ugly terrain of the road trip from hell that has been 2020.