Woolies customers have been warned a customer visited a store in Perth. Picture: Facebook
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Police appeal to public after multiple large scale copper thefts
Police are appealing for assistance from the public after multiple kilometres of newly laid copper cable were stolen from a Sydney housing estate.
Police said they believe copper traffic signal cables were cut and removed from a housing estate on Northern Road in Oran Park sometime between 5pm on February 27 and 8am March 9.
In a second theft, another 1.5km of copper traffic signal cables was cut from a different section of the same housing estate sometime between 12pm March 9 and 8am March 10.
The value of the stolen cable is believed to be about $200,000. Camden Police are investigating the thefts.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Local businesses have also been urged to be vigilant and report suspicious behaviour, including copper sales, to police.
Appeal for man missing from south Sydney
Miko Salopek is missing from Sydney's south. Picture: NSW Police
Picture: NSW Police
Picture: NSW Police
Police are appealing for assistance from the public to find a man missing from Sydney's south.
Miko Salopek, 82, was last seen at a residence on Florence Ave in Eastlakes about 12.15pm on Tuesday. When he didn't return home by 9.30pm his family reported him missing.
Mr Salopek is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 175cm tall, with a thin build, bald with a small amount of grey hair and dark brown eyes. He has a European accent and may be walking with a cane.
He was last seen wearing a blue and beige coloured checked shirt with beige shorts and a green cap with white writing.
His family and concerned for his welfare due to his age, and his reliance on regular medication.
Mr Salopek is known to visit golf courses in the East Lakes area. He is also known to visit Centennial Park.
Anyone with information about his whereabouts is urged to contact Mascot Police Station on (02) 8338 7399 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Royal Easter Show will go ahead despite virus concerns
Rides at the 2019 Sydney Royal Easter Show. Picture: Tracey Nearmy/Daily Telegraph
The Sydney Royal Easter show will go ahead despite growing concerns over the coronavirus.
Organisers of the annual event have said they’re following advice from NSW Health and currently have no plans to cancel the show, the ABC reports.
"We're in constant contact with them, once or twice a day, if circumstances change and we're given that advice by NSW Health, we will of course act on that," Murray Wilton, chief of Royal Agricultural Society said.
This year’s Easter Show is scheduled to run from April 3 to 14 and will be held at Sydney Olympic Park.
In NSW, 65 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus.
Five men killed in Qld plane crash
Police closed Quintell Beach after plane crash that killed five people. Picture: News Corp Australia
Five men have died after a plane crashed on a beach in Queensland's Cape York peninsula.
The plane had made a number of attempts to land before it crashed on a beach in poor weather.
Those killed included five government workers, aged, 63, 62, 57 and 49, and one pilot, 39. All men were from the Cairns area.
The plane, a twin piston-engined Cessna 404 Titan was travelling from Cairns, and was reported missing after 11.30am on Wednesday when it failed to arrive at the Lockhart River Airstrip.
Emergency service found the wreckage on Quintell Beach, about four nautical miles south-east of Lockhart River aerodrome. The five men's bodies were found inside the wreckage. The plane had made a number of attempts to land before crashing, according to the ABC.
Police will be working with investigators from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau who will examine the wreckage and site surroundings.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
Police allegedly find 200kg of fireworks in Central Coast home
A man has been charged today after almost 200kg of fireworks and large bags of cannabis were found at a home on the NSW Central Coast.
Police yesterday executed a search warrant at a home at Fagans Rd in Lisarow north of Gosford and during the search they allegedly located 11 boxes of fireworks. Police said in a statement the fireworks weighed almost 200kg. They also allegedly found bags of cannabis weighing 4.7kg during the search.
A man, 42, was arrested and taken to Woy Woy Police Station where we was charged with handle explosive/precursor without authorising, possess prohibited drug, supply prohibited drug, and cultivate prohibited plant. He was granted conditional bail and will appear at Gosford Local Court on April 16.
Coronavirus patient spent weekend at Brisbane club
Brisbane nightclub patrons have been warned of they may have contracted coronavirus after a student with the illness spent a weekend partying at a popular CBD venue.
The University of Queensland student attended club Friday’s Riverside in the CBD last weekend before testing positive on Tuesday.
As a precaution, Queensland Health has called on anyone who attended Friday’s, from 6pm on Friday until 11pm Monday, and becomes unwell to contact 13 HEALTH. He recently returned from travelling in Spain, Italy and France and attended the University of Queensland on two occasions last week.
The student is being treated in Prince Charles Hospital.
Queensland’s coronavirus toll topped 20 on Wednesday after a woman and a man, both in their 30s and from the Gold Coast, tested positive and were placed in isolation in a hospital.
–Darren Cartwright and Michael Doyle for AAP
Coronavirus patient visits Perth supermarket
A Woolworths in Perth has warned customers that a person infected with the coronavirus shopped at the supermarket on the weekend.
The Livingston Marketplace Woolies in Canning Vale in Perth's southern suburbs posted a customer notice yesterday, saying the Department of Health of Western Australia had contacted them over the customer's visit.
Woolworths shared this notice to their customers their store in Livingston. Picture: Facebook
The Woolworths in Livingston Marketplace. Picture: via Google Maps
The shopper, who has been confirmed as having COVID-19 was inside the Woolworths between 11.30am and 2.30pm on Sunday. The risk of others shopping in the store contracting the coronavirus is "very low" but if they become unwell they should contact the Department, according to the notice.
Nine people have now been diagnosed with coronavirus in Western Australia.
Three more people, including two men in their 50s and 60s and one woman in her 30s, were announced as having been diagnosed yesterday by chief health officer Andrew Robertson said on Wednesday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) began describing the coronavirus outbreak as a "pandemic" on Wednesday .
“We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday.
“We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterised as a pandemic,” he said, using the formal name of the coronavirus. There are now more than 118,000 infections in 114 countries and 4291 people have died of the virus, with the numbers expected to climb, Tedros said. Use of the word pandemic does not change the WHO’s response, the organisation’s emergencies program head Mike Ryan said.
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