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Exclusive: Despite being signed up to a new alert system, the South Australian emergency service was not notified during September’s triple zero outage

South Australia’s ambulance service was signed up to a new system that is supposed to send notifications when Optus has a triple zero outage, but says it was not notified during the outage last month.

September’s triple zero outage was caused by a network firewall upgrade which blocked emergency calls for Optus customers in South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and parts of New South Wales.

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Beau Lamarre-Condon accuses NSW police of corruption as he formally pleads not guilty to murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

A police officer accused of the murder of a TV presenter and his partner claims he agreed to admit to manslaughter but prosecutors and police denied his offer.

As Beau Lamarre-Condon formally pleaded not guilty to the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies he interrupted the court to launch a tirade at investigators.

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Witnesses screamed ‘he’s got a bomb’ and ‘shoot him’ before suspect was killed by armed police

Worshippers had arrived early for a special morning service at Heaton Park shul in north Manchester. It was Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and rabbi Daniel Walker was leading prayers in his long white robes. By 9.31am, they were stained with blood.

As people made their way to the synagogue, they saw a small black car being driven erratically before it crashed into the gates. At first, some thought the driver had suffered a heart attack. But within seconds he had jumped out of the vehicle, dressed all in black, and had started stabbing those nearby.

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