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NSW Paramedics today launched a week of industrial action, as the Australian Paramedics Association (NSW) escalated their demands for better resourcing and pay. Until Friday, the union had placed a complete ban on ‘staff movements’, meaning Paramedics would refuse to split from crewmates or travel from their designated station to fill roster gaps elsewhere. “It’s …

The Duchess of Sussex has given birth to a daughter. Prince Harry and Meghan have named the child Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. The baby girl will be known as ‘Lili’ for short. Both mother and child are healthy and well. The Duchess gave birth on Friday morning in a hospital in Santa Barbara, California. The inspiration …

Sophie added: “When we’re told that we’re going to begin our periods, are we told that they’re going to end as well? “We don’t want to have those conversations whilst we are in the zone of being young and having children and everything and then all of a sudden you are going, ‘Oh my god, …

Prince Harry says he was caught in a cycle of “pain and suffering” growing up as a member of the British royal family, speaking candidly about his father, Prince Charles, and comparing his upbringing to “‘The Truman Show’ and being in a zoo.”   Opening up for the first time since he and his wife …

Royal Caribbean is advising guests sailing on Quantum of the Seas from Singapore of new protocols following an increase in Covid-19 cases in Singapore. Singapore raised its alert status to “Phase 2 – Heighten Alert”, following “several clusters of infections” over the past two weeks.  A total of 46 total cases have been reported, primarily …

UK sends Royal Navy to patrol Jersey port amid fishing row  BBC News France threatens to cut Jersey’s electricity over post-Brexit fishing rights  Guardian News U.K. Sending Navy Ships to Counter French Threat of Island Blockade Over Fishing Rights  Newsweek UK sends navy patrol boats to Jersey in Brexit fishing row with France – BBC News  BBC News UK …

The arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on the royal circuit made the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge look less exciting by comparison, a royal expert has claimed. Speaking to Vanity Fair magazine, Anna Pasternak, author of The Real Wallis Simpson: A New History of the American Divorcee Who Became the Duchess of …

Hidden cameras have been used to expose compensation cheats who had claimed to be injured after car accidents and received significant payouts. One Fremantle man who said he had been injured in two crashes claimed compensation and cycled more than 3000km from Perth to Sydney on a charity bike ride. Paul Chartres went on an …

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has acknowledged there is a “long tail of cost” when Australian Defence Forces personnel return home. “That cost is most significant when we see it in the death by suicide of our veterans,” Mr Morrison said in Sydney today. Mr Morrison said his government wants to deal with the “very serious …

It’s a somber day for the British royal family, Britons and supporters around the world as Prince Philip will be laid to rest at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle in just a few hours. The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband of 73 years, died on April 9. He was 99. The ceremonial royal …