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M1 gridlocked as Ekka crowd flock here

Brisbane locals ditched the Ekka for our beaches as Wednesday’s public holiday and perfect weather beckoned, sending the Gold Coast into overdrive. The M1 corridor was gridlocked for nearly 45km in the morning as thousands of day-trippers flocked down south. And more than 70km of cars were stuck bumper to bumper of the way home from Tugun back up to Springwood.

Secrets spilled on The Bachelor

The secret pasts of two contestants on The Bachelor have been exposed leading to the exit of one contestant. Matty J’s sister Kate made an appearance to get to know the girls. But what started out as gal time ends in mysterious past lives being exposed before one contestant is pushed out of the mansion.

Man kills himself amid murder inquiry

A man understood to be the husband of a missing woman has killed himself at the family’s farm — just hours after police revealed they were believed she had been murdered. Tanja Ebert’s husband, Michael Burdon, had told police the 23-year-old mother of two refused to go home to their farm in SA’s northeast following a trip to Adelaide and left the family car carrying a large sum of money. She has been missing for more than a week.

Why you should check your docket

When you go grocery shopping, do you usually ignore the details on your docket? Or, worse, do you decline to print one out and walk away, unaware of what you have paid for all those carefullyselected items? If you answered “yes”, you could be ripping yourself off, with scanning errors causing supermarkets to overcharge for everyday items – and many shoppers failing to detect, or act upon the mistakes to recoup what they are owed.