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Prankster with heart of gold gives $60k away

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Tweed's iconic social media star the 'Powerfish' has given more than $60,000 to his community across the past 12 months.
Willem Ungermann is notorious for filming outrageous pranks on fishermen, usually involving whole chicken carcasses, calling his followers 'ya dogs' and wearing skin-tight lyrca while riding a giant blow-up flathead fish pool toy.

Social media star from the Tweed, Willem Powerfish, gave mroe than $60,000 to charity in the region in 2020.

The Tweed local of 15 years, known as Willem Powerfish, has accumulated more than 380,000 followers on Instagram, 221,000 on Facebook and 165,000 YouTube subscribers since he started his videos about two years ago.

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DRUG BUST: Strike force allegedly uncovers meth stash

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A search of a North Coast home has allegedly uncovered a stash of drugs and ammunition.
As part of Strike Force Glaze, an investigation team formed in September to investigate the supply of firearms and prohibited drugs in the region, detectives stopped a car in Tweed Heads about 10.10am on Tuesday.
A 43-year-old male passenger was spoken to and searched.
Police said was found with more than $1000 in cash
A short time later, officers executed a Weapons Prohibition Order search at a home on Anne St in Chinderah, where they seized cannabis, methylamphetamine, ammunition, firearm parts and mobile phones.

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Local Health District has record number of COVID tests

30th Dec 2020 1:15 PM
THE Northern Rivers has continued our stellar record for locally acquired COVID-19 cases with none confirmed since July, the Northern NSW Health District confirmed today.
A Tweed Shire resident in hotel quarantine in Sydney was confirmed as a case of COVID-19 on December 26.
That case was acquired overseas.
NNSWLHD chief executive Wayne Jones said this person would be released from isolation once health staff confirm that it is safe to do so.
"While testing rates have dropped in the last day or two in line with the NSW trend, we
were pleased to see high numbers of people coming through our testing clinics over the Christmas period, with around 2,600 tests conducted in the past week," he said.

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DRUG BUST: Stike force allegedly uncovers meth stash

A North Coast man has been charged with 37 offences including supplying drugs.

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