Archive for April, 2010
Waratahs again beaten by the Highlanders
OUT-MUSCLED, out-enthused and possibly out of the finals. That’s the question now facing the Waratahs after they crashed to a humbling loss to the Highlanders in rain-soaked Invercargill last night. In a classic ambush, the lowly Highlanders thrived in the wet and windy conditions to record only their third win of the year and put [...]
New cigarette price up in smoke
RETAIL chains were reporting an unprecedented rush on cigarettes last night ahead of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 25 per cent price rise, with some doubling their daily sales within a matter of hours. One woman was refused service at a Woolworths in the Canberra suburb of Belconnen after trying to buy $5000 worth of cigarettes [...]
Parramatta Eels beat Canterbury Bulldogs
THE time-honoured Mad Monday nudie run – awarded to players who can’t manage a try all season – is the height of embarrassment in the rugby league world. And although 2010 was less than a third complete, Jarryd Hayne was already feeling red-faced as he prepared for last night’s grudge match against Canterbury. For a [...]
Lote Tuqiri in for Kangaroos test spot
WE can reveal that in-form Tigers winger Lote Tuqiri is firmly in the frame to take Jarryd Hayne’s spot in Australia’s Anzac Test team to be chosen this weekend. Tuqiri – just seven games back in the NRL – is locked in a three-way battle with Hayne and St George Illawarra’s Brett Morris for the [...]
Amputee opens cut-price supermarket
A MAN who had half his body amputated after being run over by a truck has not only recovered but opened his own bargain supermarket – called the Half Man-Half Price Store. Peng Shuilin stunned surgeons with his recovery after almost two years of painful operations at Bujie Hospital in Shenzhen, southern China. Now the [...]
Looking for a job? Then hit the road, pal
FED up with fruitless months searching for a job via employment agencies, three mates hatched a plan to sell themselves in a very public way. After two days standing beside a busy road in the morning peak with signs asking for work, the trio have had more job offers than they had in three months [...]
Meet the world’s smartest women
WHEN Nigel Page won a whopping $93 million, among the world’s largest single lottery winners, he was pictured celebrating alongside his equally ecstatic girlfriend. But Justine Laycock’s name was not on the cheque for winning the EuroMillions lottery jackpot in February because the couple were not married. Now, two months on, Miss Laycock has become [...]
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