Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Queensland hit by third ‘terrifying’ storm

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

SOUTHEAST Queensland’s third destructive storm in five days has left 42,000 homes without power.

Surfer Rhys wins supermodel search

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

RHYS Uhlich has beaten his female competitors to win the model search TV contest Make Me A Supermodel.

Dead on their feet in vertical cemetary

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

PEOPLE buried in Australia’s first vertical cemetary will be placed in biodegradable shrouds and put into cylindrical holes feet first.

‘I knocked back the world’s sexiest man’

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

HUGH Jackman might have been named be the “sexiest man alive”, but Martine Bruce remembers when she knocked him back.

Nature’s nightmare not over yet

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

QUEENSLAND has been battered by the third wild storm this week, and there are warnings more severe weather is on its way.

For 118 days, teenager lived with no heart

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A TEENAGER who lived for 118 days without a heart in her body says she felt like a “fake person” as artifical pumps kept her alive.

Sea ripped child’s pram from hero’s grasp

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

THE fisherman who tried to save the family drowned off Tathra wharf had hold of the pram, but lost his grip in rough seas.

Teen girl’s attacker moves next door

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A TEENAGER is living in fear after a neighbour who was jailed for sexually abusing her moved back into the house next door.

Pirates set $40m ransom, 10-day deadline

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

PIRATES “will take action that could be disastrous” if owners of a hijacked oil super-tanker don’t follow their ransom demands.

TV reporters bashed after drownings

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

TWO TV reporters have been beaten by locals grieving a mate and his children who died in the Tathra Wharf drowning tragedy.