VictoriaEleven people in hospital after fire at Melbourne New Year’s Eve house partyPolice say one man has serious injuries after ‘terribly serious’ fire in suburb of Mill Park
Detectives are investigating an explosion at a New Year’s Even house party in Melbourne’s north-east which left eleven people in hospital.
Emergency services were called to a home on Development Boulevard in the suburb of Mill Park just after 11pm on Sunday, responding to reports of a fire burning in the garden. Read More...
FictionReviewCrummey casts his net wide, but what does he catch?"Newfoundland seemed too severe and formidable, too provocative, too extravagant and singular and harrowing to be real," notes an American doctor when he first encounters the remote settlement of Paradise Deep. But the territory's freezing, wind-blasted shore is real enough to its inhabitants. Indeed, the struggling fisher-folk of Michael Crummey's multi-generational fable, which won a Commonwealth prize and an Impac shortlisting on its 2009 publication in Canada, are the very embodiment of the brutal extremism the doctor observes. Read More...
Yorkshire This article is more than 1 year oldInquest hears isolated Japanese family kept sister’s body at Yorkshire homeThis article is more than 1 year oldCoroner gives open verdict after cause of 49-year-old’s death undetermined following discovery of partially-mummified body
A Japanese woman living an isolated, insular life with her brother, sister and mother in North Yorkshire lay dead for weeks while her family bought surgical spirit, convinced she was still alive. Read More...
