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SILVERCHAIR DRUMMER BEN GILLIES SENTENCED FOR DRINK DRIVING

Silverchair drummer Ben Gillies has narrowly avoided jail for crashing his car in Newcastle, while almost three times over the blood alcohol limit.

During sentencing today, it emerged the 38-year-old had relapsed after being sober for almost four years.

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Tyson Cottrill

Tyson Cottrill is a senior reporter and newsreader for Nine NBN News, based in Newcastle. As the Chief Court Reporter, Tyson has covered some of the biggest court cases from across the Hunter and northern New South Wales. Tyson started with the Nine Network in 2007 and has worked in newsrooms in Sydney, the Gold Coast, and Brisbane. A proud Novocastrian, Tyson has spent the majority of his journalism career reporting on the stories that matter in his hometown. Tyson has a Bachelor of Communications from Charles Sturt University.

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