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Australian woman, 50, faces three murder charges and one charge of attempted murder over lethal mushroom lunch. Follow live updates
The prosecutor turns to questioning about the website iNaturalist.
McKenzie says she has a profile on the website she describes as a “citizen science” website. She says her profile name is “ChrisMck” and has contributed about 70 posts to the website, mainly about fungi.
She says she has made two posts about sightings of death cap mushrooms. The first was in May 2022 in the gardens of the state parliament house under oak trees.
The second was in Loch in April 2023. Under questioning by Lenthall, McKenzie says she was in Loch on 18 April to visit her daughter:
We’d been for a walk ... my husband and I took our grandson and dog for a walk and we were on the oval sportsground at Loch, surrounded by oak trees. I observed some Amanita phalloides [death cap mushrooms] around the roots, or underneath the oak trees on the western side ... of the oval.
Because of my training at the poisons centre, I’m very aware about the toxicity of the Amanita phalloides.
We need to ascertain the circumstances, for instance it might be a toddler who has a nibble of a little brown mushroom and nothing more.
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A lovable elephant deity and a floating serpent goddess are just two of the highlights in this sensual show about three of the country’s great religions
About 2,000 years ago, Indian art went through a stunning transformation led, initially, by Buddhists. From being enigmatically abstract it became incredibly accomplished at portraying the human body – and soul.
You can see this happen in the bustling yet harmonious crowd of pilgrims and gift-givers you meet about a third of the way through this ethereal and sensual show. Two horses bearing courtiers or merchants are portrayed in perfect perspective, their rounded chests billowing, their bodies receding. Around them a crowd of travelling companions, on horseback and foot, are depicted with the same depth. Their bodies and faces are full of life, in a frenetic pageant, a bustling carnival, yet this human hubbub is composed with order and calm.
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Children in Great Britain with serious conditions 68% more likely to have limited ability to work as adults, report says
Children in Great Britain with serious mental health conditions are two-thirds more likely to have a limited ability to work in adulthood, according to research from a leading thinktank.
The report by researchers at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) looked at data from about 6,000 people who took part in the 1970 British Cohort Study, which is following the lives of individuals born in a single week in 1970 across Great Britain.
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Just another Scottie Sunday. Major number three for Scottie Scheffler, the first outside Augusta National and the latest stride towards golfing immortality. A year on from being bundled into a police cell during his last attempt to lift the Wanamaker Trophy, Scheffler took no prisoners. Dancing to the jailhouse rock. Jon Rahm swung and missed at the new US PGA champion before capitulating under sheer frustration. Nobody else seriously featured.
Scheffler earned himself $3.4m (£2.5m) plus further daylight between himself and the rest at the summit of the world rankings. The most remarkable thing about Scheffler is how unremarkable he makes all this seem. This is a golfer who has walked up to the 72nd green of a major holding six-, five- and four-shot leads. He has no experience of anxiety in such scenarios because of his own ability to steady the ship as others waver.
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Liverpool will try to add “extra weapons” this summer to take the Premier League champions to the next level, Arne Slot has said. In addition to plans to strengthen the squad via the transfer market, the head coach is plotting tactical tweaks to keep the team evolving.
The players were given four days off after the home draw with Arsenal but return to action on Monday night at Brighton. With top spot secured, thinking has turned to recruitment and Liverpool are set to invest this summer. Slot has been holding meetings with the sporting director, Richard Hughes, over plans to strengthen in certain areas. The Bayer Leverkusen defender Jeremie Frimpong is a key target and the club are set to trigger his €35m (£29.5m) release clause.
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It was an act of terrorism that rocked the world. But though this well meaning BBC drama has some startling and impressive moments, it mainly forgets to actually find any drama
The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988 was an event so large, so complex and so significant that for a long time it was hard for anyone to take a clear view on it. Many elements remain murky to this day, despite – or perhaps because of – it being an act of terror that was unprecedented in its effect on Britain and the US. The plane exploded over the small town of Lockerbie in Scotland, having taken off from London on its way to New York and Detroit, completing a journey that began in Frankfurt. The hunt for the perpetrators soon focused on the Middle East and north Africa. With half the world demanding answers, the families of the 270 people killed found it difficult to be heard.
The hidden human cost of the post-crash chaos is where The Bombing of Pan Am 103, a six-part fictionalisation, initially tries to find its dramatic impetus: the series argues that the dignity of the victims and the sensitivities of their loved ones were trampled. More care should have been taken to respect the dead, it says. But it struggles to turn this admirable sentiment into drama.
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