A man is facing major charges in relation to injuries and the subsequent death of another man, after an altercation at the Lighthouse Hotel on Tuesday (20 June). According to reports, 38-year-old father Matthew James Hayes was behaving inappropriately and “causing a disturbance”, which came to involve a woman at the hotel – the girlfriend […]
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Multiple fire crews battled to extinguish a blaze at the once legendary Commercial Hotel of Yass, resulting in the pub’s destruction and a neighbour arrested. Crews from Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) battled for more than five hours to extinguish the fire that engulfed the formerly popular pub in the NSW Southern Tablelands. Built during
Homicide detectives have charged a man over the murder of another man stabbed outside a Victorian pub with his wife, after a celebration. Clint Allen, aged 38, was with a group of people including his wife, Bek, for the occasion of her 37th birthday. At some point after midnight they emerged from the Criterion Hotel
Victoria’s regulator has hit Tabcorp and the Preston Hotel with multiple charges and launched a wider investigation over reports of minors being allowed to gamble. The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) alleges staff at the Preston Hotel allowed a 16-year-old to access electronic betting terminals and place bets on six occasions, between May
The operators of a well-known Daylesford hotel are facing court, accused of underpaying nearly 100 staff over a two-year period. Late last week the Fair Work Ombudsman revealed accusations against Louise Maree and Travis Francis Melotte, alleging they owe more than $300k in wages to 97 people who worked for them at the Hotel Frangos and Café Koukla,
Arrests have been made after multiple stabbings in Punchbowl in recent days, including outside a hotel on Saturday night. Emergency services responded around 11.15pm to a report a man was being assaulted with a knife outside the Mirage Hotel, on Punchbowl Road. The perpetrator is believed to have left the scene before police arrived, but
Developers who illegally demolished the cherished Punch Bowl Inn of Hurst Green, have been fined and ordered to rebuild the heritage-listed landmark to original plans, from the rubble. Built near the crest of a hillock on Longridge Road, in the county of Hurst Green, Clitheroe, in the UK, the Punch Bowl has been servicing locals
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The legal battle between Laundy Hotels and Colin Parras has finally concluded, seeing the High Court rule that the sale three years ago of the Quarryman’s Hotel should have proceeded. Arthur Laundy and co bought the Quarryman’s in 2011 for around $3.5 million, shortly after selling the nearby Harlequin. In late 2019 Laundy Hotels listed
Two men have avoided jail time after violent incidents against staff and others, spurred by drugs, alcohol and animated affections. Early January 2022, 21-year-old boilermaker William Hayes was socialising with his girlfriend and two other friends at the Huskisson Hotel, in Jervis Bay, from around 2-5 pm. According to facts tendered to court, the group
A magistrate has ruled against a claim of sexual assault by a Queensland mine worker, seeing CCTV of the man grabbing a girl’s bottom at a pub. Martin Beau Hunter Shaw has been employed as a FIFO worker in a coal mine near Mackay. In April 2022, the 30-year-old was out at Brisbane’s Stock
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