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UPDATE: NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) has reported a 802 waterbomber aircraft has crashed west of Ulladulla in NSW.

The aircraft was involved in firefighting operations.

The body of the 43-year-old male pilot was found near the plane. He was the only person on board.

Crews are responding to the scene and we’ll bring you more information as it comes.

1. Prince George has been christened overnight wearing a delicate lace gown that is an exact replica of one worn 172 years ago by Queen Victoria’s first born.

George is the first future monarch in modern times not to be baptised at Buckingham Palace, with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge choosing the intimate Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace instead.

Crowds gathered outside the Chapel to catch a glimpse of the family.

Catherine wore a cream Alexander McQueen outfit and a matching hat by milliner Jane Taylor.

His godparents were an unusual choice, mainly university friends. And… for those who are interested, The Queen wore a matching blue outfit and hat

You can read more about the christening here.

2. TWO eight-year-old boys were caught trying to start a fire near Newcastle yesterday. The boys were found trying to set dry leaves and grass alight in a vacant plot of land in Maitland about 6.30pm. They were not charged and left in the care of their parents.

The immediate fire threat seems to have passed overnight although the Rural Fire Service is warning residents in fire-affected areas not to become complacent, after the downgrading warnings for major blazes burning across New South Wales.

3. Meanwhile the Royal Fire Service has concluded that the Defence Department was responsible for starting the State Mine Fire around Lithgow and the Blue Mountains.

48,000 hectares has burnt out in the area. Defence said in a statement that it had been conducting live ordinance exercises at the Marrangaroo Training Area the day the fire started but has yet to reach their own investigation.

4. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned anyone planning to marry under the ACT’s new same-sex marriage laws to wait for the High Court to rule whether the legislation is valid or not. The Federal Government is challenging the legislation in the High Court, arguing that it is not consistent with the Commonwealth Marriage Act. Mr Abbott says the Commonwealth is challenging the laws for “purely legal” reasons – and not as an argument based on morality.

However the PM has said he will attend the “wedding” of his sister, Christine Forster’s and partner Virginia.

“If there’s a ceremony of some kind, yes, I will be there with a present,” the Prime Minister told radio station 3AW of his sister’s upcoming nuptials.

5. In alarming health news it seems that young teenage girls are not practising safe sex. The research released overnight shows that young girls aged 12 to 15 are more likely to test positive for chlamydia than older teenagers and even women in their 20s.

More than one in 10 girls aged between 12 and 15 tested for chlamydia were found to carry the disease

Chlamydia is spread via unprotected vaginal, anal or oral sex and is often asymptomatic, but if left untreated can cause long-term complications including infertility.

6. In Victoria rape laws are set to be overhauled with a call to the public to have their say. Options include several new crimes, including a lesser alternative to rape, the simplification of child sex offence laws and the boosting of maximum jail terms for some crimes.

7. In the UK a toddler has died after being stuck between two baby gates, designed to stop him going downstairs.

Xander Stephenson, aged 2, was left unable to breathe when he got his arm and neck wedged between the gates. The baby had been frequently getting through the first gate so his mother installed a second one above it. However just 36 hours after it was installed, Xander managed to squeeze his arm and neck between the two gates.

The bottom bolts on the top gate became loose, leaving the gate swinging and fixed by only two top bolts, trapping the boy between them.

Paramedics were called but Xander was pronounced dead at the scene.

Recording a verdict of accidental death, the Coroner said this was the first time he had come across such an accident.

8. Disturbing news from Syria with Doctors reporting that snipers are targeting pregnant women. Volunteer Doctor David Nott told CNN snipers are playing a “targeting game,” and heavily pregnant women are on the hit list.

“Most of the children removed were seven, eight, nine months gestation, which meant it was fairly obvious to anybody that these women were pregnant.”

9. There are calls for breastfeeding counsellors to be immunized after a counselor was banned from a hospital when it was discovered via Facebook that she was seeking advise on how to skirt a local hospitals immunization policy. The Australian Breasfeeding Association will consider a draft position on immunisation at its next board meeting.

10. It’s the Opera Houses 40th birthday (hip hip horray) and to celebrate guess who’s in town? Crown Prince Frederik and his Australian wife Princess Mary will help mark celebrations for the Opera House’s 40th birthday in Sydney tomorrow.

IN BRIEF:

A spider invasion has forced a school in Britain to close.

A White House national security official has been fired for sending anonymous messages on Twitter.

More than six out of ten Australian adults are too fat to be healthy. With the fattest area Western NSW

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