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Victoria’s lockdown will be extended past Wednesday as the state continues to try to get ahead of its COVID-19 outbreak.
As the state recorded 16 new local cases on Monday, Premier Daniel Andrews said a decision on the length of the lockdown would be announced on Tuesday. “I know this is not the news people want to hear,” he said.
“We will not be ready.”
During a COVID-19 update on Monday, Mr Andrews said the state had dodged “weeks and weeks” of lockdown by moving swiftly with restrictions, as Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton urged some patrons at the recent MCG Carlton versus Geelong match to get retested.
Stay Home Save Lives poster Two people have been made to pay more than £2,000 each for breaking Covid regulations after being found away from their homes during a national lockdown. Ellie McIntosh, 26, of Chapel Street, Rishton, has been fined after travelling to Hodge Close quarry car park in Ambleside, Cumbria, on February 14 from Blackburn, while the country was in a third national lockdown. McIntosh was found guilty of the offence in Carlisle Magistrates Court and was fined £1,760, plus a victim surcharge of £176 and court costs of £85 – a total penalty of £2,021. Rafakut Ali, 42, of Montague Street, Blackburn, was fined after going to Lower Audley Street on November 8, after the country had been put into a second lockdown.
The Audi RS6 at the scene of the crash; Simon Russell outside court; Russell s custody shot Picture: CPS/OXFORD MAIL/TVP A drunk driver hit 109mph in his England coach brother’s Audi RS6 before crashing into an off-duty ambulance driver’s Corsa. The driver of the Vauxhall Corsa, who was on his way home from an evening shift in the capital, had to be flown to Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital with paramedics performing CPR. Simon Russell, 39, who was driving former England football team’s forwards coach Allan Russell’s £90,000 Audi has now been jailed for causing the crash.
Tell us a bit about yourself I’m Seb Cole, aged 41. I grew up in South London but my family are from Ditchling originally so I visited the area every Sunday as a child and spent many a day in and around Brighton as I grew up. I attended the University of Sussex from 1998 to 2001 then moved to London for a few years before returning to Brighton in 2007.
Where are your Boho Gelato outlets? I opened the original Boho Gelato in Pool Valley, Brighton, in 2010. I opened in Weymouth in 2014 and then a second Brighton shop at 31 Ship Street in 2015, followed by a further outlet in Montague Street, Worthing.
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