Phillip Thomson

Phillip Thomson

Crash sends young woman to hospital

Phillip Thomson Crash at Mitchell sends one young woman to hospital, potentially with broken legs.

Clubs ACT lobbies for more competitive business environment

Poker machines at Independant Gaming offices.

Phillip Thomson CLUBS ACT is lobbying the territory government to forgo new fees and charges on watering holes and eateries for the next three years.

Poll reveals ACT nearing oversupply of doctors

Dr Abul Hassan Syed who Bulk Bills says it is good for business.

Phillip Thomson EIGHTY-FIVE per cent of Canberra's GP practices are now taking new patients.

Heroes, miracles and survival

Zartash Sarwar, 13, of Palmerston, was rescued from drowning earlier this year from swift flowing waters at Yerabi Pond.

Phillip Thomson AS ZARTASH SARWAR lay on a hospital bed attached to a breathing machine, her parents could do nothing but pray for her to live.

Phillip Thomson

Going ballistic on top security

Top-class locksmith Trevor Leisk.

Phillip Thomson IT IS not hard to guess Trevor Leisk's clientele. Although the top-class locksmith with the Essex accent won't reveal his customers, it is important to note he works in a town of spies, diplomats,...

Auction Watch

Signs of confidence emerge

83 Banambila Street, Aranda sold at auction today for $830,000. Auctioneer, Phil de Fegely.

Michael Inman and Phillip Thomson FOUR registered bidders battled for the right to call 83 Banambila Street, Aranda, home yesterday, with the four-bedroom property selling under the hammer for $830,000.

Cancer patient waits two days

Margaret Rees.

Phillip Thomson A CANCER patient suffering severe breathing difficulties waited for two days in Canberra Hospital's emergency department before being admitted to a ward.

Girls saved from drowning

The AFP's Paul Reynolds at the Yerrabi Pond near where he helped rescue two girls yesterday.

Phillip Thomson, Stephanie Anderson OFF-DUTY firefighter Neil Maher was walking with his daughter and dog in Gungahlin when he heard screaming and saw a girl bobbing up and down in swirling stormwater.

Shannon beats the odds with miracle early arrival

Shannon Manunui; when she dropped well below her birth weight of 420 grams, she was not much bigger than a can of Coke.

Phillip Thomson When tiny Shannon Manunui was born at 26 weeks gestation via emergency cesarean at Canberra Hospital, nobody expected her to survive.

Saving with smart homes

Phillip Thomson THE lawnmower is replaced with a blower vac and someone else's electricity bill is a vital piece of information.

MICHAEL INMAN and PHILLIP THOMSON

Police allege sex attack

MICHAEL INMAN and PHILLIP THOMSON A 35-YEAR-OLD Amaroo man was refused bail in the ACT Magistrates Court yesterday after being charged with sexual assault offences.

Auction Watch

Open plan draws buyer

39 Rossarden Street Fisher.

Phillip Thomson A FOUR-bedroom ex-government home at Fisher sold after auction for $655,000 yesterday.

Qbn residents go with the flow as warnings remain in force

Phillip Thomson SIX-and-a-half year old Ben Boag's carefree attitude summarised the feeling toward the rising water at Queanbeyan yesterday.

Push for ACT crisis centre to send alerts

Phillip Thomson THE ACT Liberals may push for the Emergency Services Agency's 24-hour communications centre to be able to send out text and phone message alerts during disasters.

$1200 a day heroin habit

Phillip Thomson A CANBERRA man, who police say has a heroin habit that costs him $1200 a day, has been remanded in prison over burglary and theft charges.

Crace tribute to navy battle hero

The son of Admiral Sir John Crace, Christopher Crace, centre, with  Battle of the Coral Sea veterans,  Gordon Johnson, of Weetangera, left, and Derek Holyoake, right, of Queanbeyan,  at the ceremony in Crace to dedicate the  Coral Sea-Crace memorial  to the  Coral Sea battle by the Royal Australian Navy.

Phillip Thomson CANBERRA now has a memorial for Vice-Admiral Sir John Crace, the navy commander whose taskforce blocked the Japanese invasion of Port Moresby during World War II.