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The giant tarantula caught in Queensland this week. The spiders have been pushed out of their natural habitat by heavy rain
Australia is known around the world for its large and deadly creepy crawlies, but even locals have been shocked by the size of the giant venomous spiders that have invaded an Outback town in Queensland.
Scores of eastern tarantulas, which are known as “bird-eating spiders” and can grow larger than the palm of a man’s hand, have begun crawling out from gardens and venturing into public spaces in Bowen, a coastal town about 700 miles northwest of Brisbane.
Mortgage brokers and lenders face jail or hefty fines if they place borrowers in unsuitable loans they cannot repay, and for the first time they will be forced to obtain a credit licence, under a planned government crackdown.
The changes are part of a credit industry overhaul that will establish a single national law to regulate mortgages, credit cards, pay-day lending and consumer credit products.
The proposed laws, which were largely welcomed by consumer groups, sparked immediate concern from the banks, which warned they would increase costs, slow down loan applications and make lenders overly cautious in issuing credit.
An overweight woman got stuck in the bath for five hours until she was freed by firemen.Rosemarie Batey, 49, who weights 140kg, promised to lose weight after the embarrassing incident at her home in County Durham, England. She needing hospital treatment for cuts. The grandmother of three was taking a midnight shower.
“There has been a crack in the bath since I moved in last year, so I only use the shower above it. But the crack had been getting bigger and bigger,” Rosemarie the Durham Evening Chronicle newspaper in the UK .
“I was standing under the shower and I had my left foot up to wash it when I heard a great big crack and away I went. I started falling and then slipped on all the shower cream. It all happened so quick, but I managed to turn the shower off as I fell.
“My legs went from underneath me. My back was wedged against the wall and I was stuck.”
Her 23-year-old son Stuart was asleep in bed and did not hear her cries for help until the morning, when he dialled emergency services. Firefighters used an electronic saw to cut away the bath with Rosemarie holding a shower curtain to spare her blushes and to keep her warm.
“It’s been a wake-up call to get some beef off,” she told the local newspaper.
Source: Daily Telegraph
- Council asking for 2M and a sizeable deposit after cleanup
- Would otherwise remain derelict
- Council thinks of the community first
Stockland wrote to council on April 29 asking for a new contract which would eliminate council’s right to buy back the site if 25 per cent of the mall was not constructed within five years of the contract. Instead, Stockland offered to pay a cash bond refundable if these conditions were met. The company said the buy-back clause was obstructing the sale of the site to another developer, and they needed council’s agreement by 5pm on May 13.
CLEAN UP YOUR ACT: Cr Elwyn Lang penned a motion calling for Stockland to give the Mid-Western Region a better deal and tidy up its Mortimer Street site.
Mid-Western Regional Council has decided to play hard ball with Stockland, responding to the company’s request for a new agreement with a counter-proposal asking for $2 million and a sizeable deposit refundable after the clean-up of the Mortimer Street site. Otherwise, the company said “the site would remain in its current derelict state for some years” and Stockland would develop 25 per cent of the site “to ensure council is unable to exercise its buy-back rights.”
At Wednesday night’s extraordinary council meeting to address this request, councillors unanimously supported a new proposal put forward by Cr Elwyn Lang. Council’s new proposal offers to implement the cash bond alternative, dependent on Stockland paying council $2 million, covering council’s legal fees in composing the new contract, and paying a $200,000 bond refundable if Stockland demolishes the buildings standing on the site and tidies the area within 90 days of the new agreement. In Cr Russell Holden’s absence, the eight councillors present voted unanimously in favour of Cr Lang’s proposal, a decision greeted with applause from the gallery.
An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found.
Jamison Stone’s father says the hog his son killed weighed a 476kgs and measured 285cms from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
If the claims are accurate, Jamison’s trophy boar would be bigger than Hogzilla, the famed wild hog that grew to seemingly mythical proportions after being killed in south Georgia in 2004.
Hogzilla originally was thought to weigh 1,000 pounds and measure 12 feet in length. National Geographic experts who unearthed its remains believe the animal actually weighed about 800 pounds and was 8 feet long.
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The Queensland Opposition says an 89-year-old man has been gnawed by mice while sleeping in a Darling Downs nursing home.
Opposition spokesman Ray Hopper says the war veteran was found covered in blood by nursing staff in the Karingal nursing home at Dalby on Anzac Day.
“The family of this gentleman contacted me very, very upset,” he said.
“He’d had the top of his ears badly, badly chewed, his neck was chewed, his head was chewed, he was covered in blood.
“It’s just unacceptable, - I just can’t believe it.”
Mr Hopper says Queensland Health should have done more to prevent a mouse plague at the nursing home.
The Google Operating System blog writes up a quick and easy method for using the latest features in Google Image Search to find great wallpaper for your desktop.
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Freeview unveiled the first range of Freeview-compatible equipment today at Dick Smith’s George St store in Sydney, aiming to also educate customers about the benefits of digital television.
The celebrity-studded launch was designed to highlight the equipment available that receives the “five extra channels” available on digital television: One, ABC 2, SBS 2, Nine HD and Seven HD.