Northbridge Baths News Today

Red warning issued for 26 swimming spots including Balmoral Baths and Parsley Bay due to high contamination levels

Coastal homeowners cannot section off their own beaches but on the harbour, different rules apply … for a price.

Former teacher Chris Dawson has launched a bid to be freed from prison and have his conviction quashed after he was found guilty of murdering his wife to make way for his teenage babysitter.

The 74-year-old was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday more than 40 years after his first wife vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches.

Nearly 41 years after he murdered his wife Lynette so he could be with a teenage former student, ex-teacher and rugby league star Chris Dawson has been sen

The family of the 33-year-old, who was killed in Sydney in January 1982, want to do away with references to her marital name linking her to a man who “discarded her”.

Several of the most popular swimming spots in Sydney - including a packed beach in the eastern suburbs - have registered poor pollution ratings.

Lynette Dawson’s mother asked that her diaries be destroyed when she died. She had no way of knowing how critical they would become 20 years later.

Of all the liars, tall stories and just plain bizarre theories spun out during the Chris Dawson murder trial before its stunning conclusion, the biggest liar was the murderer himself.

Lynette Dawson’s mother asked that her diaries be destroyed when she died. She had no way of knowing how critical they would become 20 years later.