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Hard day’s night for city cleaners
TOMORROW at 5am as you forlornly promise your god you’ll never drink again if she just spares you the miseries of a hangover, Canberra’s virtuous cleaners will be busy restoring the city from the...
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Cartoon / dose of dorin
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Speedster slapped with 12 demerit points
AS the first week of the driving double demerits period ends, a 20-year-old fool from Ngunnawal was caught speeding more than 50kph over the limit on Monday afternoon (December 29). Police say the...
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Sewer closes Tharwa Drive for three weeks
THARWA Drive, from its roundabout intersection with Drakeford Drive through to Mentone View, will be closed January 5-26 while a new sewer main pipe is connected to the new South Tuggeranong Fire &...
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Axe man menaces police
A 46-year-old man was apprehended after threatening police with an axe at a Weston residence last night (December 30). At about 6pm police arrived at a house in Chevalier Street in response to a report...
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Cartoon / Happy New Year!
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Top five clicks for 2014
1. Police released video of a Civic assault. It’s one big punch: The Academy night club provided 2014’s greatest hit, at least of the ones caught on CCTV. 2. Australia’s largest trampoline centre opens...
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Two miserable DUIs in a relatively well behaved New Year’s
ACT Policing was generally pleased with the behaviour of New Year’s Eve revellers in Canberra overnight, with five arrests recorded. A concert in Civic Square, a dance party in Garema Place and two...
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Bill marches on as the most popular baby name
SHANE Rattenbury has announced the 10 most popular girls’ and boys’ baby names for 2014. This year, Amelia makes its way to the top of the list of girls’ names while William retains the top spot for...
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Riding a motorcycle fast on drugs with no licence
ACT Policing has apprehended an 18-year-old Banks man caught driving dangerously, unlicenced on an unregistered motorcycle in Gilmore yesterday (December 31, 2014). About 1.30pm, police on Johnson...
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Macklin / The best there is under the sun
AS you walk along the Tuross boulevard overlooking the South Pacific these lazy summer mornings, it’s mighty hard to escape the thought that Australia is just about the best there is. Robert Macklin.We...
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We call our sons William and our dogs Max
SHANE Rattenbury has returned to the theme of most popular things of 2014 with the dog names registered last year. (Yesterday we did babies) “Canberra’s registered dogs come in all shapes and sizes...
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Arts / All from the love of Albert
Aretha Namatjira in front of a painting by Kevin Namatjira. Photo by Greer VersteegTHERE aren’t five generations of Drysdales or Whitley’s working now,” Scott Rankin, the director of Big hART theatre...
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Lyneham mugging
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery in Lyneham yesterday evening (January 3). About 9.10pm, a man walking through the Lyneham shops area on Hall Street was approached by two...
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Did you see blokes jumping on car roofs in Braddon?
ACT Policing is investigating an incident of property damage in Braddon during the early hours of Saturday morning (January 3). About 12am, police received a report that three males had been seen...
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Paul Kelly to star in ‘Celebrates Live’
Singer/songwriter Paul Kelly… his stories are synonymous with our landscape, history and lifestyle.LEGENDARY Australian singer and songwriter, Paul Kelly, is the star of this year’s “Australia...
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FOR a “silly season” paper, this one scrubs up really well with an entertaining mix of news, bright columns, a giant crossword and the coming year’s horoscope (I’m Gemini, there’s a demanding six...
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Fladun / Resolving resolutions
FOR me, this is the best time of the year. It’s all sleep-ins and sunshine, catching up with friends and family and eating food one shouldn’t. Sonya Fladun.For a short time, work gets put aside and...
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Electric bicycle and rider down in Bruce
ACT Policing is calling for witnesses to a bicycle incident that occurred in Bruce this morning (Monday, January 5). Around 8.00am a woman was injured after falling from her battery assisted electric...
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