Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Key points The City of Melbourne released its $850.7 million draft budget on Tuesday.  The council’s draft budget delays a promised return to surplus for another two years, recording a $17.1 million deficit. The budget does not cut […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The City of Yarra should consider taxing Airbnb hosts to incentivise landlords to lease their homes on the private rental market or sell up to ease the housing crisis, according to a Greens councillor. Annual council charges for […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A former police officer has been jailed after using his position to target and contact vulnerable women he met on the job, with a judge finding he preyed on those he was sworn to protect. Brett Johnson, 42, […]

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A FORMER tearaway pre-teen who was one of Britain's youngest people slapped with an Asbo says being "rewarded" with trips to Alton Towers only made him worse. Danny Oakley has turned his life around since being given an anti-social behaviour order when aged just ten, after causing havoc on his West Midlands housing estate. He […]

WOKE culture in schools is driving kids to self-harm and suicide, a Tory MP blasted today. At the National Conservatism Conference in Westminster, Miriam Cates claimed "hope is diminishing for young people" because they're being taught Britain is racist and humanity is killing earth. There is no evidence to suggest this is the case. The […]

So what IS going on with the British weather? How UK’s ‘stuck’ in path of Atlantic jet stream bringing a ‘conveyor belt’ of low pressure systems – as experts predict a wet but warm summer and no repeat of last year’s intense heat Conditions will continue to be cool for at least the next five […]

Major cinema chain confirms it will be closing down five branches within weeks… so is your local site affected? Odeon cinemas announced plans to close down five branches in coming weeks One of Britain’s best-loved cinema chains has announced plans to close five branches in coming weeks. Odeon cinemas states it has taken the decision ‘after […]

Thirteen armed police raid family home in hunt for weapon after receiving tip-off about a rifle in a car – only to discover it was a toy cowboy gun Gemma Sterland, 39, said 13 armed officers and a dog unit arrived at her home Mother-of-two from Warwickshire said: ‘It was like a scene out of […]

Who are ewe? Moment flock of sheep desperately chase a passing dog after mistaking it for a lamb on a Kent hillside Lexi Wolfe had been out hillwalking in Brockhill Park, Kent, on Saturday  Hilarious footage shows a flock of sheep desperately chasing a passing dog – after apparently mistaking it for a lamb. Lexi […]