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EIGHT residents in Golden Four Dr, Tugun, will have their beachside fences demolished by the Gold Coast City Council later this month, for encroaching on public Crown land, News Ltd reports.

Friends of Currumbin coordinated a series of protests which sparked the action, which will see fences, showers and landscaping which pass the public boundary line removed.

Initially residents were given until June 30 by the GCCC to remove their encroaching property if the State Government rejects their application to buy the public beachfront land, but now GCCC councilors have received legal advice the fences could be demolished immediately after the state government decision.

Tugun councillor Chris Robbins told News Ltd that Golden Four Drive residents affected will be given sufficient time to remove encroaching property and fences.

No Tugun Path leader Kate Malouf said that residents would appeal the decision if their application to buy the land is rejected.

"This has been a difficult few months and we have had everything from protests to the poisoning of grass along the boundary line. It's out of our hands now."

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President Barack Obama this week sought to assuage tensions that have crept into the U.S.-Germany relationship following revelations that the National Security Agency had been spying upon Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2002, with outrage in Berlin centred on the surveillance of her mobile phone.

On Wednesday Ms. Merkel was said to have accepted an invitation from Mr. Obama to visit the U.S. in the coming months to discuss, among other things, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations and NATO Summit, and other shared interests.

Although a White House readout of the two leaders phone call suggested that Mr. Obama had principally called Ms. Merkel to wish her a speedy recovery following pelvic injury and to congratulate her on the formation of her new cabinet, their discussion comes in the wake of a bilateral rift over the spying scandal.

While a spokesperson declined to say whether the NSA phone tap had been discussed, the release of top-secret intelligence documents on U.S. spy programmes by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last summer led to Ms. Merkels office warning that bugging friends is unacceptable.

Facts about the NSAs surveillance of targets in Germany came to light along with information on the Agencys monitoring of persons and institutions in a host of friendly nations, including India, the European Union, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and Turkey. Traditional ideological adversaries and sensitive Middle Eastern countries, were also on the list of targets, reports noted.

Soon after this it appeared that Mr. Obama was seeking to place distance between the White House and allegations that the NSA spied on Washingtons allies in Berlin, with Spokesperson Jay Carney saying, The concerns raised by our allies cause us concern too.

Congressional committees then grilled intelligence bosses such as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA chief Keith Alexander, and some leaders such as Senate Intelligence Committee Chairperson Dianne Feinstein said they were unequivocally totally opposed to the NSAs collection of intelligence on leaders of U.S. allies.

Following a sharp debate on imposing some restrictions on the programmes of the NSA, which in theory operates under rules set by the shadowy Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court, Mr. Obama appeared to be leaning towards recommendations of a review panel to shift responsibility for the bulk collection of telephone records away from the NSA and on to the phone companies, in a bid to restore public confidence.

In a press conference last month Mr. Obama said that in light of the disclosures coming from documents supplied by Mr. Snowden, It is clear that whatever benefits the configuration of this particular programme may have, may be outweighed by the concerns that people have on its potential abuse.

With Mr. Obama likely to make a final decision on reforming surveillance programmes in the coming months, his broad endorsement of reform came on the back of a federal judge saying for the first time ever that the NSAs programmes were very likely to be unconstitutional.

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Cars, fences and a motorbike were sprayed with paint on four occasions between Sunday and Tuesday.

Police are linking four cases of criminal damage in which paint was sprayed onto cars and fences.

Grey spray paint was used in the four incidents which happened in Woosehill between Sunday and Tuesday.

The first happened in Minden Close when a fence and a motorbike were sprayed with paint.

The second happened between 8am and 4pm on Monday in Trafalgar Close when the car bonnet of a Mini Cooper was sprayed with paint.

Between 9.30pm on Monday and 7am on Tuesday in Culloden Way a fence was sprayed with paint.

On Tuesday between 6.20pm and 7.45pm in Mons Close a garage door and the number plate of a Ford Fiesta were sprayed with paint.

PC Paul Bentley, investigating officer, said: I am appealing to anyone who may have seen someone acting suspiciously or has any information about the incidents to get in touch with us.

Mainly grey spray paint has been used and we believe these incidents are linked.

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The Electrical Trades Union plans to take the state government to the High Court over amendments to its bikie legislation, which will see some members lose their electrical licences come July.

State Secretary Peter Simpson said members with links to criminal motorcycle gangs had begun to raise concerns with him about their ability to keep doing their job once the amendments to the Electrical Safety Act, passed as part of Criminal Organisations Disruption legislation, comes into effect.

"I've never even been spoken to by the police, but now I am probably going to lose my job? It makes no sense to me

Anyone who has declared their membership to a prescribed club, through words or action, sought to have been a member, or attended one or more meetings or gatherings of people who are members or associates, is in danger of losing their electrical licence or not having it renewed.

No licence means no job.

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I have spoken to some ETU members, who are members of the Rebels, members of the Black Uhlans and the Hells Angels and have been for many years," he said.

"And in most cases the people I have spoken to, their families are members as well so they won't be able to renew their electrical licences.

So we have electricians with no criminal record having their honest livelihoods taken off them.

What that is in turn doing is driving them into crime. Imagine being an electrician in a regional area, like a lot of our guys are, working in construction or in the mines.

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Belmond city officials are concerned about getting 150th Street paved this summer. Eighteen months ago the city and county agreed to share the cost of paving the gravel road from Highway 69 west to the driveway of the new Max Yield fertilizer plant.

City Manager Lee Ann Waltzing told the city council Monday night that the county engineer told her the work is not on the current county road plan -- that some jobs had been pushed back on the calender.

Whats the holdup? asked Councilman Harlan Tulp. Didnt we already agree to that?

We have a responsibility to our local industry, said City Attorney Gary Berkland. We promised Max Yield that paving job.

Several other city leaders express displeasure with the possibility that the project will be delayed again.

Waltzing said she will contact County Supervisor Stan Watne and Wright County Economic Development Director Brad Hicks about the matter. She promised to report her findings to the council at the next meeting.

In other business, the council:

--approved re-taking bids for sewer plant improvements. The bids will be opened January 15 at 2 p.m. and the council will have the chance to accept a bid on January 20;

--heard that public works employees are trying to keep certain parts of the sewer plant running the best they can, but there continue to be problems and breakdowns;

--discussed the website belmond.com which is owned and operated by the city, chamber of commerce and industrial development group. Someone is trying to buy the name belmond.com, using an attorney as a front. Local officials do not know who the person is or why they are trying to buy the name. All city leaders agreed that selling the name was a bad idea;

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Man Shot and Killed By Police for Resisting Demolition of Shops

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SALT LAKE CITY Crews started demolition Thursday of an Army depot in Utah that was responsible for destroying more than 40 percent of the nation's stockpile of chemical weapons.

The Deseret Chemical Depot once held 13,600 tons of chemical agents, making it the world's largest stockpile of a witch's brew of toxins and blister and blood agents that accumulated throughout the Cold War.

Army officials said they've completed the destruction of chemical weapons at the site, no longer need its incinerator, and want to tear it down for safety reasons.

The demolition work at the site 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City will last nine months and include dismantling the incinerator that destroyed liquid agents and munitions in 1,500-degree heat.

The depot didn't just hold obsolete U.S. weapons. A supply of nerve agent seized from Nazi Germany at the end of World War II was destroyed last year.

The U.S. Army has destroyed about 90 percent its chemical weapons under an international treaty. However, the job has taken 20 years longer and cost billions of dollars more than anticipated.

The U.S. still has a stockpile of mustard agent in Pueblo, Colo., and a mixed inventory of mustard and nerve agents at Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.

Russia is further behind than the U.S., having destroyed only about 65 percent of its chemical-weapons cache, according to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, Netherlands.

Deadlines set by the original treaty have been repeatedly pushed back because of the complexity of the work.

The U.S. is now helping Syria get rid of its chemical weapons.

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(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Work is beginning to demolish structures at the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility, seen here in this 2009 photo. From 1945 to the 1970's munitions and chemicals were "stored" in open trenches. Contaminated metal was stored in barrells in a site on the property. The incinerator in the background was used for over a decade to dispose of the nation's nerve gas stockpile.

Buildings tumble Agents such as mustard gas and VX were once stored in igloos.

For 15 years, chemical weapons were destroyed at the former Deseret Chemical Depot. Thursday, work began to destroy something else: buildings.

The demolition is expected to take nine months and will bookend the former facilitys role in complying with the international Chemical Weapons Convention.

The property last year was transferred to the control of the nearby Tooele Army Depot and given the new designation as that depots South Area. Amy Blauser, a spokeswoman for South Area, said two modular buildings were scheduled for demolition Thursday.

One was a building that housed foreign inspectors who ensured U.S. compliance with the convention treaty. The other building was used to support those inspectors.

"Ultimately, well knock down everything associated with destroying the chemical weapons," Blauser said.

The last mustard gas-agent filled munition was destroyed at the depot in 2010 and the last bulk mustard gas was destroyed a year later. Chemical weapons destruction formally completed Jan. 21, 2012. But that doesnt mean South Area, or Utah, is free of chemical weapons.

An unknown number of munitions some which still hold the remnants of deadly chemical agents remain at South Area.

Thomas Ball, the staff engineer and Utah Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste, who oversees the Armys cleanup of the remaining waste, said the Army will probably spend several more years removing burnt or buried munitions, some of which contain chemical weapons that were not subject to the treaty.

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Demolition begins at Utah’s chemical weapons depot

Crews started demolition Thursday of an Army depot in Utah that was responsible for destroying more than 40 percent of the nation's stockpile of chemical weapons.

The Deseret Chemical Depot once held 13,600 tons of chemical agents, making it the world's largest stockpile of a witch's brew of toxins and blister and blood agents that accumulated throughout the Cold War.

Army officials said they've completed the destruction of chemical weapons at the site, no longer need its incinerator, and want to tear it down for safety reasons.

The demolition work at the site 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City will last nine months and include dismantling the incinerator that destroyed liquid agents and munitions in 1,500-degree heat.

The depot didn't just hold obsolete U.S. weapons. A supply of nerve agent seized from Nazi Germany at the end of World War II was destroyed last year.

The U.S. Army has destroyed about 90 percent its chemical weapons under an international treaty. However, the job has taken 20 years longer and cost billions of dollars more than anticipated.

The U.S. still has a stockpile of mustard agent in Pueblo, Colo., and a mixed inventory of mustard and nerve agents at Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.

Russia is further behind than the U.S., having destroyed only about 65 percent of its chemical-weapons cache, according to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague, Netherlands.

Deadlines set by the original treaty have been repeatedly pushed back because of the complexity of the work.

The U.S. is now helping Syria get rid of its chemical weapons.

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