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A day of drinking to celebrate being named captain of his Yeppoon Swans Aussie Rules team ended badly for Jack James Bailey.
The 30-year-old pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on Thursday to high-range drink-driving.
The court heard that Bailey had attended a Yeppoon Swans open day where he was named captain, and a day of celebratory drinking ended with him trying to drive home in a mate’s car.
At 1.35am on April 17, police intercepted Bailey driving on Appleton Drive and after a random breath test, he returned a blood alcohol contentr reading of .172.
The court heard Bailey, an apprentice builder, was trying to drive just 3km to his residence and could have walked the distance.
OTTAWA Two cats died in an apartment fire in Ottawa s Pineview neighbourhood Thursday afternoon, one of three fires firefighters responded to in a span of three hours. Just before 5 p.m., Ottawa Fire received a 911 call from a resident reporting a kitchen fire on Appleton Drive, between Meadowbrook Road and Beaverpond Drive. The kitchen fire was located in a unit on the fourth floor of the four storey residential building. The fire damage was limited to the unit. One person has been displaced. Ottawa Fire on scene of a Working Fire on Appleton Drive off Meadowbrook in Pineview. Fire has been contained to one unit on the top floor of a 4-storey apartment building. No injuries reported. #ottnews#OttFire#OttCitypic.twitter.com/lTWFJXyQqs
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A resident living in an east-end apartment building has been displaced following a kitchen fire on Thursday.
Two cats perished in the blaze, which was reported to Ottawa Fire Services at 4:46 p.m.
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Firefighters arrived at the building on Appleton Drive between Meadowbrook Drive and Beaverpond Drive in the Pineview neighbourhood and found smoke in the corridor of the top floor of the four-storey building.
The fire was extinguished by 5:03 p.m., and damage was limited to one apartment.
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Subscriber only A teenager is due to face a Rockhampton court in June after being charged in relation to the car crash which killed St Brendan s College student Rhys Yore. Rhys, 16, was a passenger in a car that crashed on Appleton Drive at Yeppoon on January 21. Rhys was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced deceased at the scene. The 18-year-old male driver sustained minor injuries. A 16-year-old female passenger had chest and abdominal injuries. A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said an 18-year-old male had been charged with one count of dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death, and one count of driving a vehicle between 11pm and 5am without a certificate of exemption.
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