Last Top Stories: The week in pictures: November 14, 2015 | photos

• The week in pictures: November 14, 2015 | photos

  

  HORSHAM: Horsham Primary School prep student Micah Erhardt during their concert. Pictures: SAMANTHA CAMARRILaunceston and Bridport Surf Life Saving Club members Isabel Grant, 13, Jed Hawkins, 15, Chloe Hawkins, 12, and Amy Street, 14, in action at the season launch on Lake Trevallyn.WARRNAMBOOL: Emily Lacey in a floral two-piece designed by Shae Warnock, 16 of Brauer College at the 2015 Spotlight Design Awards. Picture: Amy PatonWARRNAMBOOL: National servicemen Bob Frost lays a wreath on behalf ..

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• Will Jason Akermanis get his coaching chance?

  

  Jason Akermanis has stated publicly that he wants to coach at AFL level, even though his coaching career is still at the infancy stage.Essendon is the latest club to be linked with Akermanis in a development coaching role, the question is should Akermanis be given a chance, or is too much a risk?Certainly Akermanis’s record as a player speaks for itself, playing more than 300 games, winning three premierships, two best and fairests, a Brownlow medal, and being named All-Australian four times.Mos..

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• Farmers shouldn't be branded as whingers

  Farmers are far from the whingers Mick McGlone thought they were when he moved to the Border decades ago.I remember that prior to coming to Albury-Wodonga I believed farmers and those associated with farming were a bunch of whingers.That was despite spending six months in Cootamundra in the 1970s, where most of my mates were cockies.Even when I came here I still reckoned farmers were always unhappy.That belief lasted, until I became responsible forThe Border Mail’sCountry Mail lift-out. Talk abo..

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• How Postecoglou stumbled across Meredith

  

  James Meredith has a Bradford City staffer and a few DVDs to thank for his Socceroos debut.The 27-year-old earned his first international cap in Thursday night's 3-0 mauling of Kyrgyzstan on the road to Russia.But he would never have been in Canberra - or indeed the Socceroos set-up at all - had Ange Postecoglou not stumbled across the unheralded defender in England.Early in Postecoglou's tenure and during a worldwide talent sweep, the manager took a trip to Swindon Town to check out the precoci..

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• Meredith shines in Socceroos debut

  

  Except there is much more to the Albury-born 27-year-old, who plies his trade with Bradford City in League One in England and created a huge impression in his ...

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• AMAZING KEAT

  

  There is one person who has risen above the pack to dominate Shepparton’s annual triathlon in recent years and her name is Rebekah Keat.After four consecutive victories from 2010-2013 Keat sat out the inaugural Challenge Shepparton last year, but returns tomorrow on a mission to claim her fifth title.Keat touched down from Boulder, Colorado on Thursday and wasted no time getting to the Goulburn Valley to prepare for tomorrow’s 1.9km swim, 90km bike and 21.1km run.‘‘I couldn’t get there last year..

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• Former Nanny Christine Ouzounian Leaves Ben Affleck Drama For...

  

  Before Ben Affleck’s former nanny Christine Ouzounian caught herself a case of fifteen minutes of fame, she was allegedly happily engaged. The couple split shortly after the scandal of her alleged affair leaked out to the press — an affair that Ben Affleck has consistently denied. Now,according toEntertainment Tonight, Ouzounian has reunited with her ex-fiance and forgotten all about her drama with Ben Affleck.So who’s her former flame that’s finding himself back in her life? According to a sour..

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• Severe storm warning for south east Queensland

  

  UPDATE:A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for people inin parts of the Somerset, Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley Council areas.The warning was issuedat 3:34 pm.The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 3:35 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Highfields.These thunderstorms are moving towards the northeast.They are forecast to affect the area north of Toowoomba, Pittsworth and Hampton by 4:05 pm and the area southwest of Toowoomba, the area southwest of Esk and Cro..

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• Victoria Police chief commissioner Graham Ashton. Picture: David Caird

  Victoria Police chief commissioner Graham Ashton. Picture: David CairdSECURITY is being ramped up in Australia in the wake of the Paris attacks, as our terrorist alert level remains on high.Victoria Police will beef up the number of police at the UFC fight at Etihad Stadium on Sunday and at public transport hubs such as Southern Cross Station.NSW Police said a high security alert meant a terrorist attack was likely, but they had not received any information suggesting there was an immediate thre..

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• Police bust 'speed trial' by 100 P-platers on M1 south of Brisbane

  Police bust ‘speed trial’ by 100 P-platers on M1 south of Brisbaneby:Amy PriceFrom:The Courier-MailNovember 14, 201510:18AM100 hoons in M1 'speed trial'2:40One hundred P-platers took over the M1 south of Brisbane, reaching speeds over 200km/h and tracked by the police Polair helicopter.A CONVOY of 100 vehicles, mostly P-plate drivers, was captured in what police have called a “frightening” speed trial on the M1 south of Brisbane overnight.Polair helicopters patrolling the motorway spotted about ..

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