Do you check your phone in the car? Geraldine does (sometimes) and just got pinged by the Police.

She copped a hefty fine. But even worse was the loss of five demirit points. She's now on the cusp of losing her licence.

Geraldine has completed a driver re-education course and it's had a profound impact. She'll go before a Magistrate on Tuesday to plead for leniency.

In Beirut, Eliza is looking at three more weeks of school holidays. The Harveys have just returned from a week in an area known as the "Turkish Riviera", just a hop step and a jump from Lebanon.

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