Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. By the time the horses thunder down the home straight at Flemington for the Melbourne Cup, the race to claim Bendigo’s honours will have already been won. The Bendigo Cup, held on the last Wednesday of October each year, is a public holiday […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Festival Hall, the legendary Melbourne music venue that hosted packed houses for the Beatles, Jonny Cash and Frank Sinatra, has been sold "by God's grace" to the Hillsong Church for $23 million. In a video posted to Hillsong's YouTube channel on Sunday, the […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. First published in The Age on October 26, 1985 Uluru witnesses a curious mix as one culture honors another Tonight at dusk the traditional owners of Uluru National Park will at last own in white law the land they feel they have always […]

Campaigners accuse BBC of peddling a ‘damaging’ transgender ideology to primary school pupils in row over controversial children’s cartoon BBC Bitesize last week tweeted a cartoon of three teenagers in a changing room  The three cartoon figures had their gender pronouns written beneath them  BBC is accused of peddling ‘damaging’ trans ideology to primary school pupils The BBC has been […]

Jonathan Endecott wanted to be a normal kid again — to get back to class and his friends. But the 9-year-old New Mexico boy didn’t know quite how because of the darned coronavirus. His school in Roswell is closed and switched to remote learning, but his mother, Angel Endecott, couldn’t afford the internet bill after she lost both of her […]

Murder hornets from the first nest in the US are successfully SUCKED out and placed on ice after their tree was filled with foam and covered in plastic wrap by experts in bio-hazard suits Washington State Department of Agriculture entomologists discovered the Asian giant hornet nest in Blaine, Washington state Thursday The nest was found inside the cavity of a […]

A Hollywood-backed animal rights activist was charged last week with practicing veterinary medicine without a license and deceptive advertising for products he hawked at his pet food stores. Los Angeles prosecutors filed the charges against Marc Ching after a Los Angeles Times investigation unearthed years of complaints by veterinarians, who said Ching had encouraged pet owners to abandon standard medical […]

A SCANDANAVIAN blast is set to freeze the country as temperatures plummet. Snowy weather is also on the cards for parts of the country as Britain moves into the grips of winter. Low pressure driving from the Atlantic will bring the freezing blast of weather to the north of the UK. WXCHARTS shows a layer of snow is set to […]

I was fifth choice to play Del Boy but I got the last laugh! Only Fools And Horses’ DAVID JASON recalls working with a hilariously mismatched cast and how the show was nearly axed in his new memoir The first time I met Del Boy was 40 years ago.   Syd Lotterby, the producer of Open All Hours, in which I […]

Big Brother is watching your social distancing: Fury as traffic flow cameras are secretly switched to monitor millions of pedestrians in government-backed Covid project Millions are being monitored as part of a secret government project  At least 363 cameras installed to monitor traffic flow have been switched  Without public consultation, they are now snooping on pedestrians Millions of people are […]