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A man accused of brandishing a crossbow in an Angus town and a former boxer charged with abusive behaviour in the Monday court round-up

Brett Dallas had a promising career and was a former State of Origin hero. Robert Craddock examines his downfall and the personal battles that have brought him undone.

Ex-offender who beat the odds wants to make Liverpool a fairer city Man behind podcast success tells the ECHO about his unusual back story Podcaster Joseph James. Photo by Colin Lane (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo) Get our daily Echo newsletter for the biggest stories and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe for free When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordanc...

Autistic man scared to go out after bullying is fighting his fear to help families Joe Moore became isolated at home after cruel taunts made him too afraid to go out Billy Moore (left) and his younger brother Joe Moore Get our daily Echo newsletter for the biggest stories and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe for free When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordan...

"Theres no good leaving it there indefinitely when theres people out there who need it." VISION: An artists impression of an upgraded Sunshine Coast Stadium.   Mr Thompson, who is in his 90s, labelled the federal governments decision to not make funding available in its Budget as "terrible and ridiculous". He said he had not thought about who or where he would put his money towards. A bitterly disappointed Mr Forrester said he would also pull his funding commitment. "We did everythin...

Premium Content Subscriber only Local philanthropists Roy Thompson and Rod Forrester have reaffirmed that their $11 million pledge towards the Sunshine Coast Stadium expansion has an expiry date. Mr Thompson has pitched in $10m and Mr Forrester $1m towards the expansion on top of $17m from Sunshine Coast Council and $20m from the State Government. However, the project has a funding shortfall of $20m which the federal government has so far been unable to cover. Mr Thompson said he would walk...

Premium Content Subscriber only Sunshine Coast Stadium supporters have launched a call to arms from the community to flex their muscles and demand the Federal Government cough up cash to upgrade the facility. Sunshine Coast Council and stadium supporters are hopeful there will be funding granted towards the project when the Federal Government delivers its next budget in a few weeks. Local rugby league identities Ashley Robinson and Billy Moore said it was “ridiculous” the funding shortfall...

Former boxer dodges jail after disaster-filled first day as delivery driver around Perthshire Thank you for signing up to The Courier daily newsletter Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A former boxing star who was reported to police three times during a disaster-filled first day as a delivery driver has dodged a prison sentence. Alarmed witnesses saw Billy Moore motoring through rural Perthshire at excessive speeds and careering onto the wrong side of the carriageway...

12 April 2021 It took 60 years to find my real family in the USA and then I had to tell these Trump voters I was gay and a Democrat );  ); BRYAN URBICK was almost 60 years old when he first learned he had two half-sisters and a half-brother. He always knew he had been adopted as a baby but didn’t know who his mother was until late 2019. Mr Urbick, from Goring, had sought her identity through the courts 20 years ago but in the American state of Washington, where he was born, he wasn’t ent...

From The Reading List New York Times: “How to Resolve a Conflict When You Hate Your Opponent’s Guts” — “In the late 1970s, Jay and Lorna walked into the legal offices of Gary Friedman. After years of marriage, they had decided to call it quits. But instead of going through an adversarial process, they wanted somebody to help them disentangle their lives with as little belligerence as possible. That someone, they hoped, would be Friedman.” CBS News: “Agree to disagree: Achieving p...