The Latest Breaking News from Peter Watson

‘Take them to Byron’: Gold Coast glitter strip cracks down on people living on the streets

A report presented to the Gold Coast council says its compliance-led approach has had ‘positive results’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 24

Lawyer joins calls for sealed Chinook crash documents to be released

Solicitor advocate Professor Peter Watson said the decision to seal the documents was ‘extraordinary and unjustified’.

Evening Standard · May 28, 2025

Little preparation, late warnings during deadly floods

A coroner has praised the bravery of police but criticised SES preparedness after flooding claimed the lives of three people in 2016.

AAP · Feb 21, 2025

'I was once airlifted out of raging Arctic wildfire - now I'm climbing Everest'

Peter Watson, from Hackney in London, is taking on Everest as part of the Seven Summits challenge, having escaped a raging Artic wildfire in Greenland back in 2019

Daily Mirror · May 4, 2023

'Bus wars' break out between FlixBus and Stagecoach in Aberdeen

German company accuses its rival of a conflict of interest after being denied more slots at the city bus station

Insider UK · May 4, 2023

Chandelier bought for £250 in antique shop set to sell for millions

John Craxton picked up the chandelier at an auction in central London in the 1960s

The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2023

Rare Giacometti chandelier bought for £250 in London set to sell for millions

Piece acquired by English painter in antiques shop in 1960s has been confirmed as lost work by Swiss sculptor

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2023

Who is Andrew Watson? Google Doodle celebrates life of influential Scottish footballer

THE first of Scotland’s great football triumphs against England took place on March 12, 1881, when the Scots swept all before them to beat the…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 18, 2022

Tasmanian flooding inquest into deaths of Peter Watson and Trevor Foster begins with partner recalling last moments

The partner of a Tasmanian newspaper deliveryman who died in floodwaters in 2016 tells an inquest of the moment she realised both of them might die.

ABC News · Jun 22, 2022

'We're going to die', flood inquest told

The surviving partner of a newspaper delivery driver told him they were both going to die before he slipped from the top of their van into floodwaters.

AAP · Jun 21, 2022