After last night's surprisingly tame weather, we're in for a top of 28 degrees with just a slight chance of a shower.

Here's what's making news this morning in the capital:

A shortage of radiology specialists at the Canberra Hospital may have contributed to a baby's death and delayed a cancer patient's urgent diagnosis.

Emails obtained by this paper reveal multiple clinical heads at the hospital raised the alarm about the use of off-site reporting of scans.

But the hospital has denied the practice is a replacement for staff specialists, saying it's instead the result of unplanned leave and staff absences.

Our health reporter Daniella White has been following the troubles at Canberra Hospital closely and has the story here.

Before you bite into that reheated pizza from last night (no judgement), have a careful read of this.

For the first time, Australian scientists have narrowed in on the culprit behind a common type of food poisoning - a toxin secreted by the bacteria Bacillus cereus.

It can stay alive in our food even after the bacteria is gone and unlocking its secrets offers the possibility of treating the bug beyond the typical course of antibiotics, as medicine grapples with the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.

Read the story (and learn all about my new obsessive pizza re-heating policy) here.

These Australians spent more than a month marching from Sydney to Mount Kosciuszko to protest against NSW laws protecting feral horses in the national park.

It follows rising tension between scientists speaking out about the damage the brumbies are doing to the landscape and those who want the horses protected as an iconic part of Australia's history.

Seeing as my real takeaway is that some poor guy got such bad blisters from the march he had to resort to wearing Crocs, Finbar O'Mallon can explain the story much better here.

First there was an exotic snake at a local Macca's drive through.

Then, just the other day, at the Canberra Centre.

Now these slippery characters have found their way to Old Parliament House.

Jasper Lindell caught up with the snake catchers who stopped the serpent infiltrating the old halls of parliament and has the story here.

Start planning your next date night now.

Our resident foodies Karen Hardy and Kirsten Lawson have tasted and tallied up some of Canberra's finer establishments and have the year's definitive ranking here.

Did they get it right?