Laidley

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Queensland's severe weather system brings heavy rain to saturated ... (ABC News)

The Lockyer Valley Council says up to 260 local homes could be affected by flooding, including in Laidley and Grantham, where the emergency siren has been ...

"We are prepared and whatever happens we will come back. He said the rainfall over Brisbane and west of the city would "break off" later today and tomorrow, with the trough expected to move north to the Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay areas with falls between 50mm and 100mm. Senior meteorologist Felim Hanniffy said the western parts of Brisbane, over the ranges and out to the Lockyer Valley would be the main "focal point" of rain activity for today. BOM said the weather system, which moved south from north Queensland, was expected to peak today and while conditions were expected to ease from tomorrow, rain would continue over the weekend. She said there was a minimum of 100mm of rain forecast for today and there was also the chance of storm cells. "The event that we had in February and March we had about 68 homes [inundated].

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All charges dropped against Victoria Police officer who shared ... (ABC News)

The final police officer charged over sharing information about the former AFL coach's 2020 arrest has been cleared of all criminal charges.

Ms Laidley reached a confidential settlement with Victoria Police over the leak in March. - Ms Laidley reached a confidential financial settlement with Victoria Police in March A two-year saga that filled tabloid pages has drawn to a close with the charges against the last police officer involved in the leaking of Dani Laidley's arrest dropped.

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Police officer has charges of leaking Laidley arrest details dropped (The Age)

The last of the three police officers charged with releasing information about the arrest of former AFL coach Dani Laidley has had charges withdrawn by ...

Magistrates in both the Gentner and Reid cases found the officers had no case to answer, and that their conduct didn’t constitute criminal offending. It suggests that we need law reform in the area to better deal with this type of conduct,” King said. Prosecutor Neill Hutton did not explain why the charges were withdrawn.

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