Daily Archive for February 10th, 2010

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Prius owners to be contacted in recall

Toyota Prius owners will soon be contacted as part of a recall to fix the brakes of the world’s most popular hybrid car.

Aussie’s detention ‘illegal’

THE ongoing detention of an Australian who has spent 18 months in a squalid Jakarta jail is illegal because an Indonesian court botched his extradition hearing.

Cheap weddings on Valentine’s Day

IT might make St Valentine turn in his grave, but a government department is proving you can be both romantic and penny-wise.

Warner To Try and Wed EMI Again

Warner Music came off looking like the jilted groom on numerous occasions in the past decade in attempts to acquire or merge with EMI and its about to have another crack at the hard-to-get girlfriend.

Is Gen Y too lazy to work?

ONE of the region’s biggest employers disagrees with claims made to an employment agency that Gen Y ‘lacks work ethic’.

Sent home with meningococcal

A YOUNG North Coast man who contracted potentially fatal meningococcal meningitis was sent home from hospital with painkillers.

Anglican head warns of gay ‘chaos’

ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury Rowan Williams has appealed for the Anglican church to resolve its divisions over the ordination of female and gay bishops.

Dying to live on the Coast

IT is a great place to live and a great place to visit – but Coffs Harbour is also now a great place to die.

Keneally declines highway tour

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has declined a joint invitation issued by four of the region’s mayors to tour the deadly 212km stretch of Pacific Highway.

Man accused of punching 2yo son

A MAN accused of punching his two-year-old son so hard he ruptured his bowel claims the boy injured himself running into a lounge chair.