WILD weather is continuing to hit New South Wales hard, with experts issuing warnings to residents that it is set to worsen.
In what is one of New South Wales’ worst storms in recent times, police are urging motorists to stay off the roads to due to hazardous conditions. Three have already been killed and dozens have been injured in the town of Dungog, with authorities advising locals to stay on high alert.
Over 300mm has fallen in a space of 24 hours, with the rain and winds set to continue. Police have rescued more than 100 people from floodwaters, and 4000 Carnival Spirit Cruise passengers were stranded off the coast of Sydney due to severe high waters and rough tides.
“We haven’t seen gale force winds this consistent for years … They are cyclonic and it will only get worse,” said SES Deputy Commissioner Steven Pearce.
State Premier Mike Baird has urged residents to delay all unnecessary travelling and to keep safe.
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AUSTRALIAN police are concerned that if they implement travel bans for persons suspected of being involved with terrorist activity, that those banned from flying could resort to local terror attacks.
After Melbourne resident and suspected terrorist Numan Haider was shot dead by police, security officials are apparently “worried” that the refusal and cancellations of passport applications could lead terrorists to Australian targets.
These fears come after a 14-year-old boy was arrested in the UK for allegedly communicating with a man in Australia and attempting to orchestrate a terrorist attack on ANZAC Day this year.
IN a bizarre medical move, the parents of a two-year-old Thai toddler have chosen to have her cryogenically frozen.
Matheryn Naovaratpong has been in a coma since last year after undergoing more than 11 surgeries in an attempt to remove her rare form of brain cancer. These surgeries compromised more than 80% of Matheryn’s brain and left her largely paralysed.
However, instead of turning off their daughter’s life support, her parents paid more than $200,000 for Alcor, the ‘Life Extension Foundation’, to cryogenically freeze her entire body in the hopes that she will wake up when there are more advanced treatments for brain cancer.
A mother has applied for and been granted permission to lock her daughters in their bedrooms at night so she can invite her husband over – who is a convicted paedophile.
The woman, who lives in the county of Devon in England, married her childhood sweetheart a year ago, after her marriage to her daughter’s biological father dissolved.
The only problem with her new marriage is: her husband has been jailed for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl and is not allowed any contact with persons under 16.
The mother applied to her council and local authorities for her husband to become an ‘approved person’, and the council acquiesced on the condition that her children be kept under lock and key at night.
The girls rooms are installed with deadbolts, and alarm systems, and the sisters are habitually locked in every night. They are equipped with a baby monitor to alert their mother if they wish to go to the bathroom.
The girls’ father has spoken out against these conditions and is demanding the council overturn its decision.
NINE of Kenya’s senior police officers and officials have been suspended for failing to stop the massacre that resulted in 148 dead at a Kenyan university.
The shooting occurred earlier in the month, when mercenaries stormed the building and was attributed to Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels.
But the deaths could have been avoided, according to Kenya’s interior minister Joseph Nkaissery, who claimed that the nine officers and officials received intelligence of the attack but chose to do nothing about it.
Those suspended could face criminal charges if they are found guilty of negligence.
A 21-year-old woman has died in the UK after taking toxic ‘diet’ pills.
Eloise Parry, a student, was reported to have “burned up from the inside” when her metabolism went into overdrive and her heart stopped after taking a lethal dose of a new fad diet pill.
Dinitrophenol, or DNP, has been heralded as a miracle weight loss pill, but experts say that it is more likely to kill than to slim.
“Most of us don’t believe that a slimming tablet could possibly kill us. DNP is not a miracle slimming pill. It is a deadly toxin,” said her mother,
“She never intended to take her own life. She just never really understood how dangerous the tablets that she took were.”
Police in the UK have issued a warning over the use of the drug.
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