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TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact You’ve heard of bridezillas and mumzillas, but this evening in a young  engaged couple’s home a new type of monster is evolving.  While going through their 190 strong wedding list that needs to be culled down to 170, Tom Adams began sulking about all the friends he had to cut from his wedding list.  “Why do I have to cut my...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT In a touching news story from our town's Betoota Ponds district today, a local landlord has shown his softer side. The acquirer of capital who inherited a couple of houses in a prime area from his parents which he leveraged to purchase a significant number of properties with very good rental yields has decided to put profits aside and...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | News | CONTACT Betoota Acres man Jason Denso, 27, has today learnt he is homosexual.  The news, delivered by a teenaged rival whose character he had just ‘360 no scoped’ in popular online first-person shooter game Call of Duty, came seemingly out of the blue. “It really came as a shock to find out I was gay," said a bemused Jason. “I mean...

LOUIS BURKE | Investigation | CONTACT Ask surfer Alan McKendrick (26) what he did with his morning and his response will almost always have to do with an early start, a buoyant strip of fibreglass and the untamable ocean.  Those close to McKendrick would describe this activity as surfing but as the man himself and he will instead tell you he ‘entered the green room,’...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT As bartending continues to become one of the nation’s fastest-moving jobs, those in the know are finding more ways to provide customer satisfaction. One such initiative started at French Quarter bar The Sailing Lumberjack where bartender Philipa Handley (32) uses Sherlockian tactics to make transactions faster than ever. Handley states that whenever she sees a waiting customer holding an orange...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | News | CONTACT Wrecking Yard Forklift Operator Dale Kipper never thought he would end up as a commodities trader, and yet here he is, with a big pile of copper in the backyard. And every time someone throws out a washing machine or clock radio, Dale and his side cutters are there, ready to add to his holding of gold. “Yeah,...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT With the big day just months away, local bride to be Rebecca Cooper has today decided to tick off one of the biggest logistical issues with her wedding campaign. The post-release photo strategy. Biting the bullet, Cooper decided to add another little sprinkle onto the rapidly mounting wedding bill and has today hired a PR company to create the...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT Proving that we all have that one mate that has an absolutely shit sense of humour, Keith Wills tells The Advocate that he found himself in a rather unfortunate situation concerning a compilation video of the world’s ‘cringiest fails and nip slips.’ His mate, Liam, whose taste of entertainment is questionable at the best of times, reportedly...

WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT Betoota Heights-based criminal lawyer, Nick Wilkins is flying a little bit too close to the sun, according to his mates. In fact, this belief is growing stronger amongst his friendship circle after he divulged an extremely confidential and disconcerting story about one of his clients, who is an underworld figure in our very own town, over a couple of schooners this afternoon. It is...

EFFIE BATEMAN | BRISBANE| CONTACT A Betoota Heights household has tonight had a bit of an incident courtesy of a curious dad, it’s reported. Sam Lake, son of a local brickie, tells The Advocate that the family had settled down for an action movie when the incident occurred.  “I can’t really remember what movie it was but Jason Statham was in it. I think...