B.C. Conservation officers are investigating the deaths of hundreds of fish in Sidney’s Reay Creek. On Friday afternoon, a five-year-old boy visiting the park with his parents spotted more than 300 . . .
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The lifeless fish had been spotted Friday afternoon by a five-year-old, said Bruce. The boy’s parents reported them to the Town of Sidney, which asked Bruce to investigate. He traced the contaminant to a storm drain entering the creek near the bottom of Frost Avenue. “It appears somebody did something with a lot of bleach and it dropped into their perimeter drains then flowed out through the storm drain into the creek,” he said. Bruce will pass his findings to investigative authorities in Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Ministry of Environment “and suggest they come out, knock on a few doors and do some education face-to-face.”
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UPDATE: A Crown Prosecutor has told a court the alleged murder of Whitsunday woman Dorothy Britton was âclearly a very personal killingâ and could only have been committed by her eldest son.
Christopher Mark Britton has pleaded not guilty to the shooting murder of his mother on the evening of March 6, 1996.
Dorothy was found on her bed inside her Jubilee Pocket home with a gunshot wound to her head, wearing her nightie and still clutching a piece of linen, about dusk on March 7.
âWe know the murder weapon was a shotgun,â Crown Prosecutor Sam Bain said in his closing argument to the jury.