Archive for May 27th, 2008

Hugh Hefner considers a Barossa spread

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

BUNNIES could soon be bouncing around the McLeod’s Daughters property - porn king mogul Hugh Hefner is interested in buying it.

Points take 110 motorists off roads each day

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

DEMERIT points are forcing motorists off the roads at a record rate of 110 a day, new figures show.

Payout after SMS sacking led to suicide

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

A UNION faces a payout of at least $300,000 to the family of an employee who killed himself a day after being sacked by SMS.

Power couple pumped $5m into Rabbitohs

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

If saving South Sydney has cost Peter Holmes a Court and Russell Crowe their friendship, it has also left the high-profile pair $5 million poorer.

Shocks claim 420,000 houses

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

MORE than 420,000 houses have collapsed in China after two fresh aftershocks hit the quake zone.

Notorious child killer Valmae Faye Beck dies

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

NOTORIOUS child killer Valmae Faye Beck, formerly known as Fay Cramb, has died in hospital, Queensland’s Acting Police Minister Robert Schwarten said today.

Destroy the Kombi, says Joanne Lees

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
  • Infamous Kombi van released from Supreme Court
  • Police had been expected to auction the vehicle
  • Joanne Lees has asked that it be destroyed

Patti Newton’s handbag items worth $130k

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

TELEVISION personality Patti Newton was carrying jewellery and other items worth $130,000 in a handbag snatched while she drank coffee in a Melbourne shopping centre, court documents allege.

Opposition claims the PM has a butler

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

THE opposition has accused Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of employing a butler to shine his shoes and put out his clothes in the morning while travelling.

Outsourcing may cost us 1 million jobs

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

UNIONS warn one million jobs could be lost to overseas workers within 20 years due to outsourcing.