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ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Though Kevin Daniels is currently in his salad days, that doesn't apply to his culinary preferences. The husky 28-year-old landscaper is having a choice group of friends coming around to West Betoota Queenslander of Durham Avenue this Saturday and he's asking them to bring their own beer and meat - and to leave the salad...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A bloke who is obviously waiting for someone to meet him at the pub is half-heartedly blowing a fair bit of coin on a poker machine that he isn't overly interested in, it has been confirmed. While wearing relatively informal clothing, the bloke is also imitating the sounds of bombs dropping with his mouth. "beeeeeewwww boooomm!!" he mumbles as he hits...

INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | Contact Viewer beware! The rumours are true. Author of the popular book-series-come-popular-television-series George R. R. Martin confirmed today that he gets his man cans, as he calls them, out in an episode toward the end of this season. But that's not all, the 68-year-old also revealed juicy details of his sex scene cameo that he allegedly wrote into the book...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A popular local builder has been mocked and humiliated by an uppity barista at a trendy cafe in Betoota's French Quarter this afternoon for ordering an 'expresso'. Gregory Murchison, the self-described 'coffeeologist' at Le Pisse Dans Ma Poche, said he enjoys it when someone wearing hi-vis comes into his trendy French-inspired eatery and ignorantly orders something by mangling...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT A Betoota woman has today realised that the only two gay men that she knows would be a great match. Holly's close work friend, Ben, has today been told he doesn't need to worry at all about being single for much longer because Holly knows another gay guy who could be boyfriends with. During an afternoon lunch, Holly was heard...

DENISE COLEMAN | Local News | Contact The John Oxley Pool Hall in West Betoota attracts the brightest lights in the amateur pool circuit that's grown slowly in the wider Diamantina community for generations. Not many are brighter than Preston Haggard, manager of a popular one-stop music shop on Betoota's Latin Quarter. Yesterday evening around 8 o'clock, the 29-year-old confidently strode into...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Local electrician Ben Simpson has just purchased a packet of cigarettes, resigning himself to what will occur tonight. “Yeah I only smoke when I drink to be honest mate, but it’s a Saturday arvo and I’m going for a few beers…" "So I may as well face the inevitable and get em now rather than having to run off 6 or...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact Author Stephen King once said that people often get into writing because they think they can write better than something they've seen published. The same can be said for singing and performing according to local real estate agent, Lucy Attridge. At just seven years old, the now 26-year-old first realised she might have a future in singing...

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact A universally disliked and unscrupulous local builder won the gourmet meat tray this afternoon at the Betoota Dolphins Leagues Club, whereupon being called to collect his prize, he told the bar staff to hold onto it until he was ready to go. However, Michael Portland left 30 minutes ago - without the meat try. His wife rang the club and...

SIMON P. KING | Editor | CONTACT Dale Henry was all set to take a photo of his wife Jane alongside her new car when they were interrupted by a stressed woman who wouldn't stop apologising. "At first I didn't know what was wrong with her, she was very flustered," says Dale Henry. "She stopped walking abruptly and kept saying 'I'm so sorry, I didn't...