Family time . . . Making the most of being stuck together are (from left) Kate Caldwell, Andrew Caldwell, baby Charlie Caldwell and Fiona Caldwell. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Being stranded in Australia was not all bad for Oamaru’s Kate Caldwell when the transtasman bubble burst earlier this month.
The swim coach and student spoke to the
Oamaru Mail last week from the “middle of nowhere”, where her brother Andrew manages a sheep and crop farm about two hours’ drive from Perth.
Miss Caldwell and her mother, Fiona, had travelled to Kujan, Western Australia, to meet Andrew’s first baby, Charlie (5 months).
“Then Perth went into lockdown, and then we were like, ‘oh God, OK, we can’t leave any more’.”
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Kingdom FM Scottish Water has been fined £6,700 after admitting polluting the River Eden in 2018.
About 400 litres of a chemical coagulant were discharged - resulting in the death of at least 500 trout and salmon.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard that an operator punctured a large chemical container with a forklift truck, while attempting to move it from storage, at Cupar waste water treatment works.
It resulted in 500 litres leaking on to the forecourt.
The operator managed to turn the container over in an attempt to prevent further spill and moved the ruptured container to an unbunded corner of the site.
An attempt was made to clean up the spill by hosing and mopping the chemical spill into nearby surface water drains - which discharge into the River Eden.