FIREFIGHTERS worked into the early morning today (December 27) battling a "major" structure fire in a recycling facility at the intersection of John Cory Road and Recycling Road in Hume.
The driver of a blue Ford Laser, was stopped by police for driving erratically on Gungahlin Drive, Gungahlin about 5.10pm on Christmas Day. A licence check revealed the 37-year-old Hughes man had been disqualified since 2007.
DESCRIBING the Chief Minister's Christmas Day Facebook message to ACT Health workers as "a revoltingly cynical sentiment", a health insider writes that it's "a twisted hypocrisy" for many overworked frontline staff.
In a two-hour period yesterday (December 23), police responded to several collisions. The most serious occurred on the Monaro Highway, Gilmore, at about 2.20pm when a black Ford Falcon crossed the median strip and collided with a utility.
Two people have died – a man in his 80s and woman in her 70s – with COVID-19, according to the latest weekly report from ACT Health. The total number of ACT lives lost since March 2020 stands at 138.
With concern mounting over microplastics and the search for sustainable options, the woollen swimsuits of the past could be the swimwear of the future, writes LORINDA CRAMER.