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Premium Content Subscriber only One of many people caught illegally camping at the Shoalwater Bay military training area during Covid restrictions, has faced court. Nathan William Michael Groves, 19, pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court last Thursday to trespassing on Commonwealth land. The court heard that in May last year, police were conducting patrols of Byfield National Park when they came across numerous people illegally camping. There were signs in the area to warn people that i...

Premium Content Subscriber only The family of a little boy killed in a crash at Bouldercombe in 2016 will have to wait weeks to find out if Queenslands Attorney-General will appeal the wholly suspended prison sentence the driver who caused the crash received last month. The family of four-year-old Taylen Swanson has asked Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman for the appeal, saying they are appalled by the lenience of the sentence for Michelle Lee Newton who received a wholly suspended 3.5 year p...