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Council readies $15m worth of accelerated capital works
The City of Launceston expects to roll out more than $15m worth of targeted infrastructure upgrades in the first quarter of 2021 as part of its five-year $40m Accelerated Capital Works Program.
The Accelerated Capital Works Program is an initiative of the City of Launceston’s Community Care and Recovery Package, Tasmania’s largest local government response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over five years the program will bring forward a range of infrastructure upgrade and improvement projects across the municipality, aimed at sparking new economic activity and employment opportunities.
The program is designed to be agile, allowing the Council to bring forward necessary community projects, while also weighing demands on the local construction industry to ensure value for money.
Essex lorry deaths: Maurice Robinson blind to people-smuggling risks
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image captionMaurice Robinson admitted manslaughter of the 39 Vietnamese migrants
A lorry driver who found the bodies of 39 migrants in his trailer was blind to the risks of people smuggling, a sentencing hearing was told.
Maurice Robinson, 26, opened the sealed container in Grays in Essex in October 2019 and found the Vietnamese migrants had all suffocated.
His barrister told the Old Bailey that Robinson, from County Armagh, is horrified by what he saw .
He admitted manslaughter and involvement in the trafficking plot.
Robinson, who also admitted money laundering, is one of eight men being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation dating back to May 2018.
BBC News
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image copyrightEssex Police
image captionNguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex
The father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son s death through social media.
Nguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.
His father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until we saw his body by our own eyes at the hospital.
Eight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.
BBC News
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image copyrightEssex Police
image captionNguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex
The father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son s death through social media.
Nguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.
His father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until we saw his body by our own eyes at the hospital.
Eight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.