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1+ hour, 20+ min ago (171+ words) A car ploughed into eight pedestrians on the Sunshine Coast overnight, leaving a young man and woman with life-threatening injuries. A white Toyota Yaris hatchback struck the group near the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Aerodrome Road at Maroochydore just before midnight on Saturday. The 38-year-old driver fled the scene but was tracked by police to a nearby address and arrested. Aerodrome Road at the Fourth Avenue intersection in Maroochydore.Credit: Google Maps A 23-year-old woman from New South Wales was taken to Sunshine Coast University Hospital with critical injuries before being airlifted to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. A male teenager suffered potentially life-threatening head injuries and was also taken to the Sunshine Coast hospital with two others, who were in a stable condition. Police are investigating the crash and appealing for anyone with information to come forward....

14+ hour, 38+ min ago (569+ words) Barbican, LondonAn all British programme featured music by Thea Musgrave, Vaughan Williams and William Walton, with Antoine Tamestit an expressive and sensitive soloist in the latter's Viola concertoAntonio Pappano's evangelical embrace of British music continued apace in a concert featuring a welcome rarity by Thea Musgrave, William Walton's strangely neglected Viola Concerto, and the latest in his ongoing Vaughan Williams cycle, the evocative A London Symphony.Musgrave, still composing at 97, wrote Phoenix Rising in 1997 for the late Andrew Davis, to whom Pappano dedicated this concert. A 23-minute rollercoaster, it pits a blackguardly timpanist and his stick-wielding allies against a devil-may-care hornist and his brassy backup band. The horn player enters from off stage, the timpanist stalks off in a huff, and somewhere in the middle, for no immediately discernible reason, a phoenix soars aloft in an iridescent haze of tuned…...

15+ hour, 18+ min ago (122+ words) Emergency services called to property in south Wales on Friday evening Two people have been killed in a house fire following reports of an explosion in the garden. Emergency services were called to the property in Heol Fawr, Nelson, Caerphilly, south Wales, at 6.10pm on Friday. Gwent Police confirmed that police officers and firefighters from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service attended the scene. A force spokesman said: "Two people have sadly been pronounced dead at the scene and their family has been informed. "The incident is ongoing and the road is currently closed. "Diversions are in place to ensure your safety. "Please find an alternative route for your journey. "If you live locally, please ensure all doors and windows are closed."...

16+ hour, 23+ min ago (280+ words) Paramedics, police and members of the public all tried to save his life TWO teenage boys and two men have been arrested following the stabbing to death of a young man in an alleyway next to a pub. A 15-year-old boy, a 17-year-old youth, and a 20-year-old man have all been arrested on suspicion of murder. They remain in police custody while Surrey Police continue their enquiries. Cops were called to The Wheatsheaf pub in Ewell, Surrey, at around 3.30pm on December 9. The man was found in an alleyway next to the pub. Paramedics, police and members of the public all tried to save his life but the man, aged in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene. 'IT'S A TEAM GAME' Shops need to roll up their sleeves & do more to catch thieves, cop says 'Smiling' girl, 13, 'knifed woman 143 times…...

17+ hour, 46+ min ago (120+ words) Part of a popular Sydney thoroughfare has been closed to traffic and pedestrians due to a crash. A man in his 50s smashed into a building and construction site on Oxford St in Darlinghurst about 7am on Saturday. NSW Ambulance paramedics treated the driver before he was taken to hospital for mandatory testing. The impact of the crash has put the construction site scaffolding at risk of collapse, NSW Police said. Oxford St is currently closed between Flinders St and Crown St, with traffic diversions in place. "Police are encouraging motorists and members of the public to avoid the area due to the ongoing risk posed by scaffolding at the site," NSW Police said. Investigations into the crash are ongoing....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago (21+ words) Fire crews have had to erect metal poles to stabilise a building that was struck by a car early this morning....

1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1051+ words) A view of Mount Gravatt's high street along Logan Road, near Creek Road.Credit: William Davis The high street in Mount Gravatt " a strip of op shops, real estate agencies, restaurants, cafes and fitness studios along Logan Road " hasn't changed much in decades. The old "no frills" Franklins supermarket has been flattened and the former Mitre 10 hardware store has been retrofitted with medical services and a restaurant. But little else in one of Brisbane's few surviving suburban high streets has changed in the past four decades. Mount Gravatt's high street on Logan Road, looking towards Brisbane CBD.Credit: Brisbane City Council Brisbane City Council now plans to create homes for thousands more people around the high street, allowing apartment towers between 12 and 16 storeys high, under its push for infill development over urban sprawl. Unlike other areas that have been flagged…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago (114+ words) LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Lincoln Fire and Rescue responded to a report of a building fire in north Lincoln just after 10 p.m. Thursday. The call came in for the Super 8 hotel near 27th Street and Cornhusker Highway. An LFR spokeswoman said crews responded to an alarm and evacuated the building. There were no injuries. The source of the fire was a water heater in a maintenance room that was smoking, according to LFR. Some of its internal components were burned, but that was the extent of the damage. Crews later ventilated the building, and everyone was able to go back inside. LFR has not yet released damage estimates or determined the cause....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago (342+ words) Plans to turn a former laundrette and dog grooming parlour into supported living apartments have been unanimously refused. Developer KSH had hoped to bulldoze the site at Proudfoot Drive, in Bishop Auckland, and build 17 apartments for adults with disabilities and autism there. However, Durham County Council has recommended that the planning application be turned down over a lack of information, unsatisfactory living conditions and for not fitting in with the "street scene". In its application KSH said the building was an "eyesore" and there was a "significant and growing shortage of modern supported living accommodation". KSH said the laundrette shut in September due to lack of customers, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. The developer had offered to open up the laundry area to the public to "safeguard" its future. However, at the planning committee meeting, Reform councillor Tom…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago (532+ words) by Annie Rupertus, Bangor Daily News Bangor's "Barnacle" parking enforcement device is pictured on Monday in Pickering Square Parking Garage. (Annie Rupertus / BDN) BANGOR, Maine (BDN) -- Bangor's new "Barnacle" parking enforcement device has been used a dozen times and helped the city recoup $2,500 in unpaid parking tickets, according to the company that manages the city's parking. The Barnacle is a trademarked device that clamps onto a car's windshield with suction cups and obstructs the driver's vision, essentially making it impossible " or very dangerous " to drive the car. After sending out warning letters in August to people who had more than three unpaid tickets, the city started deploying the device in October, said Parke Clemons, area manager for PCI Municipal Services, the company contracted by the city to manage parking. The first two months of use have shown that the device,…...