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Five motorists pleaded guilty in Gladstone Magistrates Court last week to drink-driving charges.
Fiona Michelle Dwyer returned a blood-alcohol content reading of 0.085 when intercepted on Dawson Highway at Calliope on January 31.
Dwyer, 40, was fined $800 and disqualified from driving for one month.
Daniel Peter Willersdorf, 38, returned a reading of 0.081 when intercepted on Moores Creek Road in Rockhampton on January 23.
He was fined $500 and disqualified from driving for two months.
Kirk Swindale, 29, blew 0.068 on Herbert Street in Gladstone on February 12.
He was fined $400 and disqualified from driving for one month.
Mark Stewart Wllwood, 27, returned a reading of 0.154 when intercepted on Wilga Street in Gladstone on February 13.
A tiny public ‘garden’ in Paceville planted by a lifelong resident has been cleared by the St Julian s local council, which justified its removal by saying the area was overflowing with rubbish.
The little green patch on Wilga Street was planted by lifelong Paceville resident John Dingli, who died in 2014, and was previously filled with plants sown in honour of residents who passed away.
It was cleared away on Monday, with Dingli s grandson, illustrator Ed Dingli, sharing photos of it before and after the clearing.
St Julian s mayor Albert Buttigieg told
Times of Malta that the local council had decided to clear the area after residents complained that it was attracting drug users and garbage.
A returned traveller has tested positive to coronavirus after they were released from hotel quarantine in Sydney.
The Australian from Wollongong tested negative twice during their 14-day quarantine but returned a positive test two days after being released.
NSW Health announced just hours earlier earlier that returned Australians would be tested again after leaving hotel quarantine to prevent exactly this scenario.
An alert list was issued of 10 Wollongong venues and a cafe in Brighton Le Sands in Sydney s south visited by the infected case following their release from quarantine.
Other venues included Thirroul Beach, a popular shopping centre in Figtree, an Optus in North Wollongong, Woolworths in Bulli, a hotel in Austinmer and an Officeworks in Fairy Meadow visited twice in the space of 24 hours.