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Parking signs can be confusing at the best of times, but a particularly cryptic one in Sydney has meant drivers had their cars wrongly towed.

Senior 9News reporter Eddy Meyer was on Kent Street in central Sydney yesterday with a cameraman and assistant ahead of an interview.

The team pulled the Nine crew car up, examined the sign with its eight different directives, and got a ticket from the machine.

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"We know that street well… normally you can park there for four hours," Meyer told 2GB's Ben Fordham.

"Hamish the cameraman even went to the machine and paid for, I think, two hours of parking and the machine gave him a ticket – took his money and gave him a ticket."

The ticket machine didn't come up with an error message about checking signs, so the crew headed off to do the interview.

But when they came back, the car was gone.

"There was a couple sitting at the cafe and I turned to them and said: 'Did they tow our car?' and they just said, 'Yes'," Meyer said.

A call to the towing company was made and the driver happened to be doing a lap nearby, so he came back to chat to them. 

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"I flagged him down and said, 'Mate, where's our car?' and he told me. And I said, 'Well, what did we do wrong?' and he said, 'Did you read the sign?'"

It turns out the confusion stemmed from an addition to the clearway section of the sign, due to the public holiday in NSW. 

The sign read: "Special Event Clearway 2pm-9pm Sat 30 Sept, Sun 1 Oct, Mon 2 Oct" – which was interpreted that the clearway was for 2-9pm on each of those days.

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However, apparently the towing company had interpreted it as being in place from 2pm on Saturday until 9pm on Monday.

"He towed us and he towed a whole bunch of people, I'm not having a go at the towie, he's just a bloke doing his job, he was very friendly, Meyer said.

"It's not his fault.

"He's simply enforcing what he's been told to enforce."

In a statement, Transport for NSW said the Nine crew and other drivers who had their cars wrongly towed were actually in the right.

"In this instance tow truck company has towed vehicles in error, despite having received clear communication from Transport for NSW on the clearway," it said.

"Transport for NSW is now working with the tow truck company to rectify all associated fines and fees, and we sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused those impacted.

"Transport for NSW is continually working to ensure road and parking signs are as clear as possible while still providing what can be complex information," the statement read.

A New South Wales business has been ordered to pay $178,000 in fines and legal costs after it was caught exploiting the state's Return and Earn recycling scheme.

Clarence Valley Metal Recyclers (CVMR) has been fined $149,000 by the Land and Environment Court after the court found an initial $45,000 fine issued by the Local Court last year was "unreasonably low" and an "insufficient deterrent."

CVMR was prosecuted by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) in 2022 under the NSW Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001.

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CVMR pleaded guilty in a court case last year, admitting that the company bought 66 tonnes of containers that had already been recycled from Glen Industries for $57,000.

They then submitted those containers to the Return and Earn scheme, as well as an additional 33 tonnes of non-eligible containers.

The court found that the company gained significant financial benefits over the long-term exploitation of the scheme.

The EPA found CVMR falsely submitted more than three million containers to the program.

"The Return and Earn scheme is one of the best recycling schemes in the world and it is very disappointing that someone would take advantage of that and return containers they know are ineligible as well as containers that had already received a refund," EPA Acting Executive Director, Arminda Ryan said in a statement.

"To protect the integrity of the scheme, containers are closely monitored, and this will continue to help us root out fraudulent behaviour from individuals and companies."

CVMR is also required to pay the EPA more than $29,000 in investigation and legal costs related to the Local Court proceedings, as well as legal costs for the appeal.

More than 100 dolphins have died in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the past week as the region grapples with a severe drought, and many more could die soon if water temperatures remain high, experts say.

The Mamiraua Institute, a research group of Brazil's Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, said two more dead dolphins were found on Monday in the region around Tefe Lake, which is key for mammals and fish in the area.

Video provided by the institute showed vultures picking at the dolphin carcasses beached on the lakeside.

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Thousands of fish have also died, local media reported.

Experts believe high water temperatures are the most likely cause of the deaths in the lakes in the region.

Temperatures since last week have exceeded 39 degrees in the Tefe Lake region.

The Brazilian government's Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, which manages conservation areas, said last week it had sent teams of veterinarians and aquatic mammal experts to investigate the deaths.

There had been some 1400 river dolphins in Tefe Lake, said Miriam Marmontel, a researcher from the Mamiraua Institute.

"In one week we have already lost around 120 animals between the two of them, which could represent five per cent to 10 per cent of the population," Marmontel said.

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Workers have recovered carcasses of dolphins since last week in a region where dry rivers have impacted impoverished riverside communities and stuck their boats in the sand.

Amazonas Governor Wilson Lima declared a state of emergency due to the drought on Friday.

Nicson Marreira, mayor of Tefe, a city of 60,000 residents, said his government was unable to deliver food directly to some isolated communities because the rivers are dry.

Ayan Fleischmann, the Geospatial coordinator at the Mamirauá Institute, said the drought has had a major impact on the riverside communities in the Amazon region.

"Many communities are becoming isolated, without access to good quality water, without access to the river, which is their main means of transportation," he said.

Fleischmann said water temperatures rose from 32C on Friday to almost 38C on Sunday.

He said they are still determining the cause of the dolphin deaths but that the high temperature remains the main candidate.

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Homes in an area devastated by the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 are under threat again as a blaze burns out of control on the New South Wales South Coast.

As winds and high temperatures fan fires across the state, the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) issued emergency warnings for a bushfire in the Bega Valley area this afternoon, while an early warning for residents near Cessnock was downgraded to a watch and act.

Residents around Bermagui were told to seek shelter.

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"An emergency warning is in place for the Bermagui, Cuttagee and Barragga Bay areas due to a large bushfire," the RFS said of the Bega Valley blaze.

"If you are in the Bermagui, Cuttagee or Barragga Bay areas, you are in danger. It is now too late to leave. Seek shelter now inside a solid structure such as a house."

A similar warning had been given to residents of Abernethy and Erlington due to the fire in the Hunter region, but the RFS changed its advice to watch and act at around 5pm.

The Bega Valley bushfire is moving in an easterly direction, fuelled by westerly winds, but forecasts of a southerly change overnight could make containing the blaze difficult for fire crews, although it will bring some respite to the conditions.

RFS Commissioner Rob Rogers warned firefighters are in for a difficult task in the coming hours.

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"(The southerly change) is supposed to come through in another a fair few hours, I think they're talking about potentially 2am, so that could obviously cause us problems," he told 9News.

"So we'll have firefighters in that area all night to protect residences."

He said evacuation centres were set up, with tourists visiting the region during the current school holidays.

"There's holiday-makers in the area. We don't have exact numbers, but there have been evacuation centres set up," he said.

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"There's neighbourhood safer places in Bermagui itself, where people can go to if they're concerned.

"We've got more than 20 fire trucks in that area looking after the properties, so we have a lot of resources there, we've got two large air tankers hitting that fire as well.

"So we're doing whatever we can to protect people, but obviously it's going to be a long evening for people in those areas, so they just need to focus on looking after their own safety."

Victoria has also been on alert for natural disasters today, with out-of-control blazes in the Gippsland region and warnings of flash flooding as the cold front that will move towards NSW brings significant rainfall to the state.

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