Former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested by U.K. police in his Berkshire, England, home on Thursday. King Charles says the law must take its course as police assess claims King’s brother sent trade reports to Epstein. Police say they’re conducting an investigation into public misconduct allegations from when Mountbatten-Windsor was a trade envoy and allegedly leaked sensitive info to the late Jeffrey Epstein. The former prince denies any wrongdoing.
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Organic recycling depots will remain closed in the City of Brandon. City Council made this decision to not re-open it’s 5-community organic recycling depots this spring, at it’s meeting Tuesday. Instead residents will be able to drop off excess organic waste at the Eastview Landfill. High levels of contamination at these 5-sites and the costly rent of a pickup truck; contributed to the closures.
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Don’t put your snow shovels away just yet as Westman was hit with a ton of snow; and more is on the way. How much did we get? 4-cm in Brandon, 20 cm in Miami, and 16.5 cm in Portage la Prairie. Before this system ends, The Parkland region could receive 30 cm of snow.
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The City of Brandon started it’s priority street clearing at: 34th Street, 26th Street and Rosser, Princess and Park avenues. For more detail got to qcountryfm.ca
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The Brandon School Division board of trustees has promoted the assistant superintendent to the division’s top job.Jon Zilkey will take over the role of superintendent and chief executive officer on July 1st. For more info visit qcountryfm.ca
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A B-U paleontologist Prof has helped uncover ancient ‘dinosaur barf’. Mark MacDougall is part of a research team, including one from Germany; that identified 41 bones from at least three different animals. The Brandon Sun says they used CT scans and chemical analysis, basically discovering that the predator clearly bit off more than it could stomach B-U says the dinosaur barf is nearly 290-million years old; and could be the oldest known example of fossilized vomit.
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