A panicked groom who staged a bomb hoax on his wedding day so his bride would not find out he bungled the booking has been jailed for 12 months.

A SUNDAY league footballer who drove his car at a referee was jailed for 24 weeks yesterday.

Three people were reported to have been killed as cyclonic winds and rain ripped across Australia’s north-western coast today, tearing roofs from houses in remote towns and laying waste to at least one mining camp.