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‘Disco boobs’, fishnets and underwear

Byron Bay music festival Splendour in the Grass has never really showcased the height of fashion, but this year style dropped to new lows. Festival goers at the three-day event paraded around in less clothing than ever with sticky taped nipples, see-through dresses and glitter where clothes should normally be all the rage.

Changing face of Coast playgrounds

Slides, shade sails and monkey bars are facing a cull in city playgrounds as the Gold Coast council looks at overhauling its parks. The traditional playground equipment will be replaced with “natural environments dominated by vegetation and interesting landforms”. The council is spending about $30,000 on a strategy to upgrade parks and remove outdated equipment.

Sex just got pricier on the Gold Coast

Dawn Crichlow has led a crusade to triple the fees for new sex shops in a bid to “clean up the city”. And she has a warning for the Coast’s 140 street-corner massage parlours: “You’re next”. The Southport councillor pushed for the application fees of new adult shops to increase from as low as $3638 to as much as $9946. Brothel fees have gone up about $1100.

Pervert jailed for choking girl to death

A man in the UK obsessed with strangling porn has been jailed for 12 years for choking a teen school captain to death. James Morton, 24, had been pursuing a “sexual thrill” when he strangled Hannah Pearson, 16, with the Nottingham Crown Court finding him guilty of manslaughter. Morton, who was cleared of a murder charge, had admitted during the two-week trial that he had put Hannah into bed before climbing in next to her on the night of July 23, 2016.