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Andy_Ross said:
An explosives scare on Redcar beach turned out to be a child's toy.

Part of the beach was cordoned off following reports of a suspected explosive device being found of the beach on Saturday evening. Cleveland Police have now confirmed the item in question was found to be a child's toy.
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"What was that noise, Willard ... the toy torpedo just sunk a fishing trawler, huh?"

 
Our big local news is that mosquitoes have been found to carry the equine encephalitis virus, which killed a person in nearby New Hampshire, so now in addition to the ticks and the poison plants and the West Nile and all the rest, we now have to worry about a virus for which there's no cure, no vaccine, and which will usually kill you. I hate that damned bug spray, but spray we must.
 
Very local:

Beam Mobility e-scooters to be banned from Canberra's streets after investigation found firm manipulated data

The ACT government has ordered Beam Mobility to remove its e-scooters from Canberra streets after an investigation found the firm manipulated data about its fleet.

Other cities, including Brisbane, Townsville and Auckland, had already cancelled contacts with the Singapore firm over allegations of fleet caps being breached.

Transport Canberra and City Services Deputy Director-General Ben McHugh said Beam's operating permit would not be renewed and its e-scooters must be deactivated by midnight on Sunday, September 8 and removed from public areas by 4pm on Friday, September 13.

"We believe Beam has failed to meet the expectations of the Canberra community under their permit to operate and therefore we will not be renewing their permit to operate," he said.
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Not so local but still very sad:

King Island Dairy to shut in mid-2025 after Saputo fails to find buyer for iconic cheese brand

Dairy giant Saputo will shut its iconic King Island Dairy in the middle of next year and discontinue its more than 120-year-old brand, after being unable to find a buyer.

Saputo Dairy Australia president Leanne Cutts said the decision to shut the dairy had "not been taken lightly", and only after a 10-month "intensive review of all commercial and financial alternatives" for the brand, including selling it to a third party.

"After thoroughly reviewing every possible option, closure of the facility was determined as the most viable way to strengthen SDA's competitiveness based on changing industry and market conditions," she said.
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The King Island Blue Brie was absolutely to die for.
 
This week in Irish political news Micheál Martin makes an idiot of himself. https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0912/1469814-sophie-toscan-du-plantier-case/, he basicly says that it was a disgrace that Ian Bailey wasn't convicted, given all the evidence against him. All evidence collected in the murder investigation was obtained under torture, as the Irish courts and a number of inquiries have found out.
 
Actually a pretty funny local news item today: "Fox steals golf balls during Jefferson County Sheriffs Office Golf Invitational". A fox is photographed chasing a golf ball then "running off with it".

The sheriff’s office said the fox may have accomplices and may have victimized numerous golfers.
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'Lessons to be learned' after 'shambles' cobbles revamp as replacement work scheduled

Council chiefs have responded to criticism of a Guisborough restoration project labelled a “shambles”

At a meeting of the council’s growth scrutiny committee, assistant director of growth and enterprise Andrew Carter said it was accepted the quality of the cobbles were “not good enough” and there were “lessons to be learned”.

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Here in New Hampshire, USA:

Goffstown Turns Down Gift and Sues Families Over Lunch Debt Instead

GOFFSTOWN, NH — After rejecting an offer from a local church to pay off all student lunch debt, Goffstown School District Business Administrator Scott Gross is instead taking families to court.

Goffstown’s School Board approved a policy last year allowing Gross to sue families with delinquent debt in small claims court. Around the same time that policy was approved, Rev. Jason Wells at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church offered to cancel the debts. Instead, around 10 families are now being sued by the district.

Wells told InDepthNH.org on Friday he spoke to Gross about the parish’s offer to make an end of year Christmas gift to the district. Parishioners wanted to pay off all outstanding student lunch debt at the end of the calendar year, then estimated to be between $3,000 and $5,000. But Gross was not interested in the offer, Wells said.

Any gift to the district needs approval from the board, and Gross told Wells, “I would speak against it at the School Board.”
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We've had exciting times here, the village centre was completely closed and dozens of homes and shops evacuated as workers at a building site uncovered what was thought to be a second world war bomb! Turned out to be an old metal dustbin...

And our lost greenbelt meadow has the new housing development delayed again as more archeological findings have come to life, evidence of a settlement going back a possible 8000 years.
 
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