Grant Hackett will announce his retirement from the greatest of swimming careers.
The Australian national swimming team captain will announce his retirement at Swimming Australia’s swimmer of the year awards in Sydney tonight. HGrant Hackett, 28, has spent the last two months weighing up his future after just missing out on a history-making third straight Olympic 1500m freestyle [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Grant Hackett retires from swimming
Posted in News, Sport, tagged Australian politics, cabinet Minister, Grant Hackett retires, hackett, olympics, Sport, swimming on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Diggers remains damaged at Gallipoli
Posted in News, tagged anzac, Australian, bulldozer, Gallipoli, remains, rememberance, sacriledge, soldier, Turkey, war on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Australian officials have requested roadworks on the Gallipoli Peninsula be stopped after reports diggers remains had been damaged.
Road crews have been widening Second Ridge Road, which runs along what was the “no man’s land” between Anzac and Turkish troops during World War I, and is now an unmarked grave for thousands of soldiers, the ABC [...]
ELLE’s new man was cocaine smuggler
Posted in Entertainment, News on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
ELLE Macpherson’s new man Brian Burgess has a criminal past, including a botched bid to smuggle cocaine according to the Daily Telegraph.
Burgess, 56, who owns his own removalist company in London called Aussie Man&Van came into Elle’s life recently after he helped her move from Notting Hill, West London, to nearby Ladbroke Grove.
Burgess was found [...]
Student leaped to death to escape rape
Posted in News, tagged Australia, jumped to death, rape attack, Sydney, Waterloo on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sydney Police are investigating the theory that two young naked Asian students fell from a third-floor balcony in Sydney on Sunday, as they tried to escape an armed rapist.
The Daily Telegraph revealed early today that police insiders suspect a knife-wielding intruder to the Waterloo apartment had intended or had already committed sexual assault, forcing the teenage woman and man to [...]
It’s all hitting the fan at Hotel that served crappy ice-cream
Posted in News, tagged Australia, Coogee Bay, Coogee Bay Hotel, crap, crappy, excrement, faeces, food, ice-cream, Sydney on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever complained at a hotel or restaurant?
The Coogee Bay Hotel in Sydney Australia are alleged to have served up a dessert containing human faeces, and have accused the family behind the claims of demanding $1 million “shut-up money” as it emerged they also had links to a rival pub company.
A second family has now claimed [...]
