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“We can’t put out a newspaper with blank pages in it!” he yelled.
“I don’t care what it is, for the love of Blue Christ, go out and find me some fucking stories before I lose my shit.”
The Advocate’s editor Clancy Overell was in a far more chipper mood yesterday after he returned home to the Diamantina after an extended holiday at the coast.
He attended a number of music festivals and spoke of how he’s suddenly got a new lease on reality after trying magic mushrooms for the first time.
However, it seems the weekend has caught up with him and now that the full staff have returned from holidays, the pressure is beginning to mount on Clancy to put a newspaper out tomorrow.
Just before noon today, Clancy called the editorial team into the second-floor meeting room, turned the air conditioning on and kicked his boots off.
“Ok,” he said.
“What’s the front page looking like tomorrow? What are we going to go with?”
Silence.
“Right. Well we need to do something.”
“Wendell! Can’t you get your slow brother in the QFES to light a grass fire or something?”
Wendell shrugged and said he’d try his best.
This is a developing story but the Betoota Heights community above Hinze Link Road is advised to be on the lookout for spot fires.
If you see fire or smoke, do not panic or shout.
Remain calm and phone the emergency services immediately on 000.
More to come.
