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WARWICK CAPPER (Australian Football Extrovert)

    Love him or hate him, Warwick Capper is one of the most flamboyant, self promoting and self loving Australian Rules players in the history of AFL Football, but beneath the extrovert personality, lies a very intelligent man who clearly knows how to use his...

MICK FANNING (To close for comfort)

    Australian professional surfer Mick Fanning and Brazilian Gabriel Medina were quickly plucked from the water at Jeffrey’s Bay after a large shark was spotted unceremoniously joining the competition. The incident is the second in two days at the notorious break in South Africa. The sighting comes...

OJ SIMPSON (Squeezing the life out of “The Juice”)

  OJ has spent just under a decade behind bars, and tomorrow, he could become a free man.  According the Nevada Department of corrections, Simpson's fate will be placed into the hands of four strangers on the parole board as early as tomorrow' in the...

ALICE COOPER (aka Vincent Damon Furnier)

a   Born Vincent Damon Furnier on 4th February 1948, Detroit Michigan, USA. Furnier, was the pioneer of a new era of rock’n roll, by adding theatrics to his stage shows. He did it before Bowie, he did it before Kiss, he was the worlds first “shock rocker”...

SIR DONALD BRADMAN (Australian Cricketing Legend)

    Sir Donald George Bradman was an Australian Cricket Player who many both peers and fans believe to be one of the greatest cricket players of all time, and definitely one of Australia’s most popular sporting heroes. Bradman born on 27 August 1908 in Cootamundra, NSW,...

ANITA COBBY

REMEMBERING ANITA COBBY (30 years on) Anita Cobby was the young beautiful nurse at the centre of a crime, so horrific that it changed the nations attitude towards justice, punishment and parole forever.  And 30 years ago today, Anita Cobby's five brutal killers were each...

LACHLAN “A BLEEDING LOVE STORY”

  There is so little known about Haemophilia , a genetic condition that causes abnormal bleeding.   Derived from the Greek words ‘Haima’ (blood) and ‘philia’ (a tendency toward) Haemophilia is a bleeding disorder caused by a gene mutation. Your blood doesn’t clot properly, and this makes...

A DIFFERENT CHARGE FOR A MCCHICKEN

A woman who took matters into her own hands by jumping a counter and attacking a female worker in a McDonalds store in Iowa, has been located and charged.   Valarie Shepherd 21 of Des Moines, who was with her friend 21 year old Jessie Downs,...

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

  Mozart was one of the world’s great composers. He is what historian’s of music call, the classical period. Mozart sadly died before his 36th birthday, however he still left behind over 600 compositions including his greatest opera “Don Giovanni”.   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born 17 January...

SCHAPELLE CORBY

SCHAPELLE BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA   Well it’s finally happened, Indonesian parole authorities have had a gutful of Schapelle Corby and her family and will be happy to see the back of her.   With her pending deportation back to Australia scheduled for 27 May, her long time parole...