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The ACT has recorded just one new Covid case on Saturday as health officials scramble to work out how a Canberra high school student contracted the virus despite not having a known link to any other infectious site or person. On Saturday morning ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr announced Australia's capital had identified one case, bringing the territory's total active infections to seven.  Minister Barr confirmed the additional case was a close contact of a previous infection.  The ACT has recorded one locally acquired case that is linked to a previous Covid-19 infection A record high of 4,500 tests were collected across the territory with an additional pop-up clinic set up specifically in relation to the Gold Creek Holy Spirit schools in Gungahlin.   'We appreciate that there is significant demand for testing. Yesterday at Exhibition Park a test was conducted every 45 seconds. We have increased capacity at Exhibition Park today and we anticipate the tests being able to be

The wife of legendary television executive David Leckie has been spotted on the ski fields of Thredbo amid NSW's expanding Covid lockdowns - but insists she followed the rules.  Skye Leckie and her two sons Ben and Harry were seen among locals at the chalets on Tuesday despite travel out of Greater Sydney currently not allowed, reports the SMH.  'We've been in the Southern Highlands for months. We came from Robertson, that's the address listed on my driver's licence, so we did not break any rules as they stood. I can assure you we have not done anything wrong,' Ms Leckie told the newspaper.  Skye Leckie the wife of renowned television executive David Leckie has been spotted in the ski resorts of Thredbo   While Sydneysiders can't travel to Thredbo under current restrictions, Ms Leckie said she has been in the NSW Southern Highlands 'for months'  A legendary television executive, David Leckie passed away, aged 70, at the family property in July the N

A visit to a handy website is all you need to do to make sure of exactly how far away you can travel after Gladys Berejiklian changed lockdown laws across NSW on Saturday.  From midnight Sunday locked-down residents in Greater Sydney and the rest of NSW have been told they cannot travel further than 5km from their home.  The tightened restrictions were announced as the city struggles to control an ever-growing outbreak of the contagious Indian delta strain of Covid-19. Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced 466 new cases were recorded on Saturday, with a staggering 390 likely to have been infectious in the community. A handy website will show you a five-kilometre radius from your home address For those who don't know exactly where the 5km boundary from their house extends, there is an easy way to check.  The website KM From Home allows users to enter their address and see a red circle on a map which will indicate where they can travel to.  The website was established after Ireland b

Rumours much-liked NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant has resigned have been quashed by health authorities who have assured the state's residents their favourite doctor will be back at the Covid press conferences soon. On Saturday, which has been the 'worst day' of the pandemic in NSW after a record 466 new Covid cases, speculation mounted online  that the state's top doctor had suddenly quit. Dr Chant had not addressed the state in her usual way, standing closeby to Premier Gladys Berejiklian, for the past three day.  A NSW Health spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia the bizarre rumour was off the mark.  'NSW Health can confirm Dr Kerry Chant has not resigned. She wasn't at today's press conference as NSW Health staff work on a rotation basis when appropriate.' Representatives from NSW Health have quashed false rumours NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant has resigned After NSW recorded 466 new Covid cases on Saturday, NSW premier Gladys Berejikl

Nearly 600 people made the perilous trip across the English Channel on a single day this week, a new daily record. On the day an Eritrean man tragically lost his life trying to reach the UK, at least 592 people succeeded in making the dangerous crossing, latest figures show. The 27-year-old died after he and four others jumped overboard as their boat started to sink in the Dover Strait on Thursday. His 22-year-old girlfriend watched as he entered the water before she was later rescued, a French migrant help association told the PA news agency. Latest figures from the Home Office on Friday night say at least 592 people were rescued or intercepted in their bids to cross to Britain on Thursday - a new record for a single day After being returned to port in Dunkirk, she later discovered that her boyfriend had tragically died after being taken to hospital. A manslaughter investigation is now under way in France following the death. Latest figures provided by the Home Office on Friday night

Geronimo the alpaca has won a brief stay of execution – thanks to the Daily Mail. Lawyers for the animal’s owner Helen Macdonald said yesterday’s revelations in the Daily Mail about other healthy alpacas being wrongly slaughtered are being used as evidence for a renewed legal fight for his life. They lodged a claim for judicial review at the High Court in London yesterday including an application for a temporary injunction to halt the enforcement of the warrant for Geronimo’s execution recently granted to the Government. Supporters of Geronimo the alpaca have been campaigning to stop his execution  Geronimo's owner Helen Macdonald, pictured, lost a £50,000 legal case last month although she has been given another opportunity to take a case on Monday which could lead to a reprieve for the alpaca Last night the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs told Miss Macdonald’s legal team Geronimo would have at least a 72-hour stay of execution to 4pm on Monday until they could

A rogue protester gatecrashed the NSW Covid press conference on Saturday morning to yell out a bizarre reference to WWII.  The unidentified man cried out 'Nuremberg 2.0' seconds before NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller spoke to the waiting pack of journalists. Mr Fuller was visibly unimpressed by the interruption, glaring at the anonymous protester before speaking about the fines residents would now be subject to under the harsher Greater Sydney lockdown. The term Nuremberg is infamous for a series of war trials held in Germany between 1945 and 1946, soon after the end of World War Two.  The trials resulted in a number of former Nazi leaders being indicted and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal. Sydney residents can expect even tougher restrictions and bigger fines after 466 new cases on Saturday (pictured, people exercising on the Bay Run in Sydney's inner-west) The protester's phrase refers to an online conspiracy theory perpetuating Cov

Hooligan drivers spotted doing 'donuts' on a popular beach inches away from children have convinced cops to crackdown on four-wheel drive use at the tourist spot.  Footage captured from inside a lifeguard patrol ute on August 13 shows a red 4WD swerving dangerously around Teewah Beach in the Cooloola recreation area. The ute is very close to children who are fishing on the shoreline. The ute continues to make several tire patterns in the sand before coming to a halt next to a tent filled with people. As the lifeguards approach the driver again takes off, throwing the tail of the car around in shallow water before driving erratically towards a group of people walking on the beach. The video was shared on the Queensland Environment Department Facebook page and the post suggests visitors may be stopped from using the area because of the actions of the driver. 'We're reviewing visitor capacities for the Cooloola Recreation Area following ongoing poor behaviour and unsafe

The deputy leader of Westminster Council resigned today after the total costs for a ridiculed 82-ft tall man-made mountain in the capital nearly doubled to £6million. Melvyn Caplan quit after a 'totally unacceptable' rise in costs of the Marble Arch Mound which suffered a catastrophic opening that saw it widely derided by visitors. The project, planned by Dutch architects MVRDV and managed by the council, was designed to give views of Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Mayfair and Marylebone. But it was slammed by tourists as soon as it opened on July 26 amid complaints it was still being built and the views were obscured by trees or nearby buildings. Visitors were charged between £4.50 and £8 to climb up the wood and scaffold mound complete with grass, shrubs and trees, and it closed after just two days. Westminster Council apologised for the botched launch of the £6million Marble Arch Mound Westminster City Council's deputy leader Melvyn Caplan has quit over the Mound debacle Real

This was the moment her fans had waited 13 years for. But even as she won a legal victory over father Jamie this week, effectively seeing him relinquish control of her career and life, many are now starting to wonder just what Britney Spears’ freedom will look like. For the past three weeks, among increasingly shrill posts about her state of mind, she’s published topless images and videos from the same photo session five times. She says she dances on her own for three hours a day, every day, and posts video after video on Instagram of herself twirling around. Anyone who doesn’t like it — or wonders when she might tour or make music again — is told to ‘f*** themselves.’ As she puts it: ‘If you don’t want to see my precious ass dancing in my living room or it’s not up to your standards... go read a f*****g book !!!!’ For the past three weeks, among increasingly shrill posts about her state of mind, Britney has published topless images and videos from the same photo session five times Bri