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ABC News
6 days ago
- General
- ABC News
Missing pet labrador rescued from Victorian mine shaft
Authorities have cordoned off open mine shafts in Central Victoria after a dog missing for four days was rescued from one by specialist volunteers. Pet labrador Ted fell 8 metres into a shaft in Wombat State Forest, near Trentham, after escaping with labradoodle Penny from their backyard last week. Penny's barking alerted neighbours who found her guarding the mine shaft on Monday morning, four days days after the dogs went missing. The Country Fire Authority's (CFA) mine rescue brigade Oscar 1 carried out the rescue. First Lieutenant Karl Shay said the mine shaft was small and difficult to access. "There was a log laying over the top of it and the actual opening was only about 800 by 800 millimetres," he said. The team sent down a monitor to check the air was safe to enter, before a rescuer lifted Ted out in a dog harness. Mr Shay said there were three other mine shafts within 3–4m of the one Ted was found in. Mr Shay said it was not uncommon for the specialised crew to be called in for dog rescues. "Fortunately, when dogs fall in a mine shaft they don't tend to hurt themselves," he said. "When a human falls in a mine shaft, they tend to do a bit more damage." The CFA said a number of open mine shafts in the area were red-taped to prevent further incidents. Ted and Penny's owner Chantal Henderson said in a post on social media that the dogs were "a little lighter than usual, but otherwise excellent". "Thank you to Ruth and her daughter [who found the dogs] for their perseverance searching the bush after hearing their barking," she said. "Without you they would never have been found." Mr Shay said Ted was "very happy to see people" when they arrived. "He was very glad to be reunited with the family," he said. Animal behaviourist and University of Adelaide Associate Professor Susan Hazel said as a social species, dogs formed "deep attachments" to other dogs and people, which could explain why Penny waited at the mine shaft with Ted for so long.
ABC News
6 days ago
- General
- ABC News
Missing pet labrador rescued from mine shaft
Skip to main content 6m ago 6 minutes ago Tue 3 Jun 2025 at 2:53am Missing dog Ted the labrador is rescued from a mine shaft in Trentham, central Victoria, by local firefighters and the CFA's mine rescue team.
NZ Herald
21-05-2025
- Sport
- NZ Herald
Central Districts get vote of confidence from racing bosses
Things got worse on Anzac Day when the Awapuni relaunch lasted one race before that meeting was called off for the usual reason: a slippery surface making racing unsafe. Add to that long-term doubts about the sustainability of the remaining Trentham grandstand and Ōtaki losing its only Group 1 to Ellerslie and good news has been hard to come by in the lower half of the North Island. But help, or at least the promise of help, is on the way. New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing have backed the new Awapuni track by scheduling two Group 1s to be run there in the spring, if the track can come up to scratch by then. That IF has to be in capital letters as NZTR chief executive Matt Ballesty has made it clear the track must prove itself first and any sign of trouble that threatens the Group 1s will see an alternate venue found. The two races are the Arrowfield Stud Plate and the Livamol, traditionally the second and third legs of the Hawke's Bay Triple Crown. With Hastings out of play for the spring (more on that soon) the three Group 1s it usually holds will be split between Ellerslie for the first, the Tarzino Trophy, with the next two legs tentatively at Awapuni. 'Subject to a visit from track expert Liam O'Keefe in early June we intend to run the two Group 1s in that region,' Ballesty told the Herald. 'However, if the track isn't exactly where it needs to be and more time is needed we won't rush and we will look at other options. 'NZTR understands all participants, especially trainers, need to know in advance where the races are to be held.' While the move is hardly the most boisterous vote of confidence in Awapuni being up and running by spring, NZTR are bringing in the big guns in Flemington track man O'Keefe, who helped Ellerslie smooth out their problems when they launched their StrathAyr track last year. Like Ellerslie, one of the key Awapuni issues has been compaction of the top layer, making it prone to becoming slippery, so it will need constant verti-draining to break up that level and create more organic matter, ultimately providing a more natural surface. But one of Awapuni's issues is rocks underneath the surface which limits the use of certain verti-draining machines. There will be weekly management meetings between the local administration body RACE, NZTR, O'Keefe and fellow track expert Callum Brown. If that all goes well racing is scheduled to return to the turf track in August with Ballesty saying, 'a safe return to racing is our number one priority'. So while nothing is certain in the increasingly weird world of race track management, NZTR are at least giving Awapuni and those who run it the chance to prove themselves. The second piece of good news for the region came in Hastings last night when Ballesty announced racing will remain at the current track with recambering work to start soon. The Hastings track has been dogged by problems in recent years, admittedly not helped by erratic spring weather, but one of its biggest issues has been the camber on the bend out of the straight. There has been debate about whether it is better to fix the current track or look to build a new track in the Hastings region, but Ballesty answered that question when addressing club members last night. 'We will start work on correcting the camber on the track and all going well hope to have it ready for racing in spring 2026,' he said. That is a far quicker, and cheaper, option than moving the track in what is a famous racing region and all going well Awapuni and Hastings could be racing, on safer surfaces, in the New Year. Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald's Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world's biggest horse racing carnivals.
BBC News
17-02-2025
- BBC News
Doncaster police officer jailed for sending sexualised messages
A former South Yorkshire Police officer has been jailed for nine months for sending inappropriate and sexualised messages to a vulnerable Trentham, 41 was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court for an offence of misconduct in a public the beginning of his trial, Trentham pleaded guilty to the him, the Recorder of Sheffield, Jeremy Richardson KC, said Trentham's actions had "undermined" public confidence in the police. The court heard that in July 2022, Trentham had been assigned to investigate a case where a woman from Doncaster had complained to the police that images of a sexual and explicit nature had been shared of her online by another had forwarded police emails involving details of the case, which included sexually explicit images of the complainant, to his own personal email address. 'Suggestive emojis' The court heard that in August 2022 South Yorkshire Police closed the case, having been unable to identify a suspect - but Trentham lied to the complainant by telling her that he was still investigating the proceeded to send her messages from his personal mobile phone and email account that were described as "unprofessional which then became inappropriate and sexualised", according to prosecution counsel Josh court heard that in one message, Trentham told the woman "I do prefer a curvy woman" and "have you got a plans for this evening?" while using sexually suggestive emojis. In another message Trentham sent a picture of himself in his police uniform with a winking emoji to the a victim impact statement read to the court, the woman said that she "had put her faith and trust in a police officer but instead she had been taken advantage of" and that since July 2022 her life has been "ruined".In evidence it was established that Trentham had no physical relationship with the woman, but the court heard that the complainant's existing mental health issues had been exacerbated by Trentham's actions, leading her to fall into depression and bouts of anxiety that had required medical for the defence David James said Trentham's guilty plea was an acknowledgement of the wrong that he had done and that he publicly wanted to apologise to both the woman and his former colleagues at South Yorkshire James also told the court that Trentham had begun to turn his life around, training to become a HGV driver and that factors such as the breakdown in the father of two's marriage and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) developed through his role as a police officer had contributed to his decision Richardson noted that Trentham had taken positive steps in his life and recognised the presence of PTSD due to his police he went on to say that the offence "was a serious breach of trust in relation to a vulnerable victim"."As a former police officer. prison will fall particularly hard upon you and special measures will be put in place to protect you," he to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.
