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Well would you? I would not.

SPEEDING motorists are being booked twice for the same offence, a Darwin businessman said yesterday.

David Flint, 70, said police regularly set up a speed camera van on the Stuart Highway within 50m of the Westralia St traffic lights at Stuart Park.

The lights have cameras. “People are being zapped by the van and then pinged by red light cameras,” he said.

I’d say good on ya Police. David try and think; you are speeding, that is against the law but now you complain that they charge you? They should charge you a lot more.

Easy solution? Stick to the speed limit.

POLICE have launched a manhunt after a Northern Territory man was stabbed to death in his home yesterday.

Police said the man was found dead at his home in Katherine.

An autopsy showed the 52-year-old long-time Territorian suffered a stab wound to his neck.

Police are now appealing for witnesses.

They want to speak to a man shown in CCTV footage taken from the BP service station on Katherine Terrace about 1.30pm on Tuesday.

The man is described of Aboriginal appearance, slim, about 160 to 170cm tall.

He was wearing a checked long-sleeved shirt, knee-length grey camouflage shorts and a red baseball cap at the time.

Anyone with information is urged to phone police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000

Can you help?

Julia Gillard has made history by winning the Labor party leadership after Kevin Rudd reportedly stood down.

Ms Gillard will become Australia’s first female prime minister after an extraordinary 12 hours which ended with Mr Rudd standing down before a scheduled leadership ballot, which was to be held at 9am.

The challenge reared after a last-minute push yesterday to oust Mr Rudd, driven by the Right faction in Victoria and South Australia, gathered momentum.

Congratulations to her, well done!

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd will put his leadership to the vote in caucus today after Deputy Julia Gillard requested a leadership ballot.

One can only hope that they see his use by date…. Kevin is long past it.

But even a ‘normal’ woman can have the same result by just doing some exercise and watching her food intake.

Print the picture out and hold it up to your webcam, its image on the screen will break out of a crate and stomp about.

A PRIMARY schoolboy fled into the bush to escape the latest string of attempted child abductions in Tasmania by a man and a woman.

The 11-year-old told police he was followed by a suspicious couple in a car while riding his bike home from St Aloysius Catholic College, at Huntingfield. Acting Inspector Adam Stanwix, of Kingston Division, said there was no evidence to suggest there was a connection between the incident and several reports of a couple attempting to entice children into their car on Hobart’s Eastern Shore last month.

However, all reported incidents involve a blue car and a couple, including a female who pursues children.

No connection? They just all had a blue car? What is going on, kid stealing becomes a new fashion? Or is our society just getting sicker and sicker every day?