In local news, lawn bowls club veterans are teaching teenagers to play the sport in hope of keeping the game and their club alive.

Jindalee Bowls Club hopes to run 68 sessions by the end of March, with students in year 10 and 11 at Ambrose Treacy College and Centenary State High School participating.

Organiser Jan Bell says “the aim is to spread the word about bowls, and if the kids go home with a positive message, then the parents might come down for a game of barefoot bowls.”

UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s revised Brexit deal has been rejected in a vote by the house of commons, where it lost by 149 votes.

The Prime Minister spoke immediately after the vote, saying she regretted the vote the house had taken, and “the deal [her party] has negotiated is the best, and indeed only [Brexit] deal available”.

The house will decide tomorrow whether it supports leaving the European Union without a deal on the 29th of March, which it is widely expected not to.

South-east Queensland towns are reaching record breaking temperatures throughout the warmest March week on record.

The Ipswich suburb of Amberley reached 41.3 degrees after 3pm yesterday, smashing its previous record for the warmest March day, which was 38.9 degrees in 1965.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe storm warning for the recording breaking week, with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and flash flooding expected for the central coast and inland areas.

Public transport might be getting a digital overhaul following the department of Transport and Mains Road plan to install digital screens into its network.

The screens would show real-time timetables, route delays, and commercial advertising, however, the new service could potentially feature the collection and use of customer data.

A TMR spokesman said the digital network could deliver real-time information to customers.

"It is anticipated that users will have an option to opt in or out of data collecting services."

In the wake of two deadly plane crashes involving the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the past five months, Australia’s aviation safety authority has officially banned the use of the plane for flights both in and out of the country.

The safety authority says it’s in the best interests of safety to ground the jets which are currently operated here by Fiji Airways who fly them into Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne.

A National Library of Australia archive of Australian websites from as early as 1996 has been published, as a 20 year effort to protect Australia’s cultural history.

Ms Allison Dellit of the trove service of the National Library explains the website has been collecting pages since the mid 1990s, capturing the primitive designs and information of the time on various Australian websites including the Prime Minister’s website, which was initially John Howard’s, and one of the first ABC News websites.

German tourist, Arne Murke, has credited his pants for saving his life after he was knocked overboard while out sailing with his brother in New Zealand.

Mr Murke used his pants as a makeshift life jacket, which kept him afloat until rescue crews could find him almost three hours later.

Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand's Chris Henshaw said, "It was fortunate the yacht had both a VHF radio and emergency beacons to raise the alert. Without appropriate communications devices and beacons it may have turned out differently."

Covert footage has been obtained from a pig semen collection facility in Brisbane that depicts the animals being kicked, abused, kept in filthy stalls and deprived of clean drinking water.

The footage has already made the rounds on social media, racking up over 500,000 views, with thousands expressing outrage over what the pigs are being made to suffer through.

The Department of Agriculture is yet to comment on the incident, and no charges have been laid.