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19 May, 2015. 11:05 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] ROYAL FAMILY loyalists say they are not surprised that majority of the United Kingdom consider Prince Charles to be the worst thing to come out of the British Empire since smallpox. In a recent survey conducted by the BBC: 90% of respondents indicated that the believe the 66-year-old has a worse reputation than...

4 May, 2015. 14:20 CLANCY OVERELL| Editor | Contact   The princess was born at 8.34am, weighing 8lbs 3oz - just 3oz less than Prince George when he arrived in July 2013. She is the first princess to be born into the British monarchy in 25 years. The last was Prince Andrew's daughter Princess Eugenie in 1990. Covered in a shawl and with a bonnet...

4 May, 2015. 11:50 IMRAN GASHKORI | World Sport | Contact AFTER FIVE YEARS OF WAITING - it finally happened. An affluent, convicted champion woman-basher fought a street kid from the Phillipines for 45 minutes in Las Vegas - Generating the biggest audience and the biggest paycheque in the history of professional sport. The judges at ringside scored it 118-110, 116-112 and 116-112 for the man known as...

21 April, 2015. 16:35 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected]   Hillary Clinton's announcement that she will enter the 2016 race for the White House came in a two-minute video released in a social media blitz, in which she told the US public she wanted to be their "champion". As well as stating "this is my time" - Hillary pointed out she will be...

10 April, 2015. 10:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | [email protected] A MEMBER OF AUSTRALIAN ROCK BAND, I Killed The Prom Queen, has this week appeared in a new anti-wool campaign solicited and funded by animal rights group, PETA. The poster that Adelaide-based guitarist Jona Weinhofen appeared in has suggested that farmers who shear lambs are committing the highest form of animal cruelty, which results in...

NICK HUGHES-DENUTO | Health and Wellbeing | Contact A former executive salesman and "Black diamond earner" for the controversial workout supplement Isis-Genix, Michael Schnell spoke to the Betoota Advocate today about his time in the fast-lane of shady "health and wellbeing" pyramid schemes. “Essentially it uses the same basic principles of recruiting followers into a cult, they target people who are down on their...

1 April, 2015. 12:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact   A suspected member of a far-left militant group behind the live hostage situation involving a Turkish prosecutor in an Istanbul courthouse, is not really that keen on people seeing the lower half of his face, according to reports. While reportedly demanding that the police officer allegedly responsible for the killing of a teenager at a...

27 March, 2015. 15:15 CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps, named as Andreas Lubitz, appeared to want to "destroy the plane", officials say. Lead investigator, Scott Minto has cited information from the "black box" voice recorder, saying the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit during what has been described as the...

1 March, 2015. 13:01 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact KREMLIN OFFICIALS investigating the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov have claimed Islamist extremists, not Putin, may have been behind his death. Other possible motives listed by the Investigative Committee, which has Vladimir Putin as its executive, included trying to destabilise the Russian president, the Ukraine conflict and his personal life. However, intelligence...

13 February, 2015. 15:30 ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact RESIDENTS of one small southern parish are celebrating today after a controversial bill passed city council - allowing animals to marry one another. Jackson Parish in northern Louisiana held elections earlier this week and the Animal Marriage Act (2015) was a hot topic among candidates. It passed unopposed and will be written in to the local law books...