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| UpdatedBlackmans Bay residents want a fence upgraded where a teen fell to her death but local authorities say they will wait for a coroner's report.
Topics: accidents---other, local-government, blackmans-bay-7052
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A 17-year-old girl has fallen to her death from a cliff at Blackmans Bay south of Hobart.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, death, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedA "mistake of youth" is how Tasmanian police are describing a 17-year-old's fatal fall from a high cliff at Blackmans Bay, south of Hobart, after attending a party nearby.
Topics: death, law-crime-and-justice, blackmans-bay-7052, richmond-7025
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Environmentalists fear a controversial sewerage pipeline planned to run through a nature reserve will threaten a critically endangered bird species.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, community-and-society, animals, water-management, blackmans-bay-7052, tas
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| UpdatedA plan by Tasmania's water corporation to run a sewage pipe through the Peter Murrell Reserve, south of Hobart, angers residents and community leaders.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-policy, animals-and-nature, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedA coroner wants a trial of mandatory pre-paid taxi fares in Tasmania after the death of 19-year-old Jayden Field who jumped out of a moving cab trying to avoid the fare.
Topics: courts-and-trials, road-transport, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedA loose latch on an engine cover forces a sea plane to land near a beach south of Hobart.
Topics: emergency-incidents, blackmans-bay-7052
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A Tasmanian man connected to the biggest drug bust in the state's history will spend at least seven years in prison for trafficking drugs worth more than $10 million.
Topics: drug-offences, prisons-and-punishment, courts-and-trials, hobart-7000, blackmans-bay-7052, tas
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian teenager who died after jumping from a moving taxi had been drinking heavily, an inquest hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, accidents, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedOne of the cars vandalised in Hobart's south
Topics: vandalism, sandy-bay-7005, blackmans-bay-7052, kingston-7050
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| UpdatedThe police rescue helicopter has been used to rescue a teenager injured after jumping more than 8 metres down a cliff at a popular beach in the state's south.
Topics: emergency-incidents, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedA former Australia Post contractor in Tasmania has been placed on a 12-month good behaviour bond for failing to deliver more than 40 Christmas parcels.
Melanie Moran, 33, told the Magistrates Court in Hobart she became overwhelmed by the Christmas rush in 2011 when she had to deliver 400 parcels a day.
The court heard Moran had held the delivery contract in the Blackmans Bay area since 2008 but by Christmas 2011 she was struggling.
Topics: crime, courts-and-trials, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedThe managers of an aged care centre south of Hobart are reassuring the community a gastroenteritis outbreak is being managed properly.
Topics: aged-care, infectious-diseases-other, blackmans-bay-7052, tas
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A Tasmanian man who crashed his car with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit has told a court he expected to be dead before his licence was returned.
Topics: traffic-offences, blackmans-bay-7052, tas
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| UpdatedTopics: burglary, police, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedThieves selected only four firearms from a home collection in southern Tasmania when they broke into locked gun safes.
Topics: burglary, police, blackmans-bay-7052
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Police in Tasmania are trying to locate a man and a woman who may have witnessed an assault on a teenage girl at Blackman's Bay, south of Hobart.
Topics: assault, blackmans-bay-7052
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Police in Tasmania's south have released a description of the man who attacked a teenage girl in a public reserve on Thursday afternoon.
Topics: assault, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedPolice are investigating a daylight attack on a teenage girl in a nature reserve south of Hobart.
Topics: assault, blackmans-bay-7052
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| UpdatedA 12 year old Tasmanian boy who was reported missing on Bruny Island, in the state's south, has been found safe and well.
Topics: missing-person, blackmans-bay-7052
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A Tasmanian motorcyclist will be charged with traffic offences after police were shown a video posted on the internet that shows him speeding.
Topics: traffic-offences, blackmans-bay-7052, tas
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| UpdatedTasmania Police is asking for assistance from anyone who may have seen an 18-year-old man who has been reported missing.
Topics: missing-person, police, blackmans-bay-7052, tas, taroona-7053
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| UpdatedTasmania police are trying to find a missing teenager.
Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, blackmans-bay-7052, tas
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| UpdatedA southern Tasmanian man convicted of assaulting two drunk teenagers who stole his truck has avoided jail.
Topics: armed-robbery, assault, blackmans-bay-7052, tas
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A knife-wielding teenager who tried to rob a Hobart taxi driver of his cab and then stole another car has avoided jail.
Topics: armed-robbery, assault, blackmans-bay-7052, tas