Brief newslets

• A mother, abetted by her own mother and two sisters, goaded her two toddlers into attacking each other with weapons, while filming the fight.

Doting grandmother, Carole Olver, said: “I didn’t see any harm in toughening them up — I done the same with my own children.”

And Nanna done done a grand job of tuffenin’em up, eh what?

 

• This bombshell is a potboiler of a story: “Hundreds of scientific papers and years of research could be thrown into doubt, for they may have been based on experiments carried out on the wrong leech.”

 

• “A blind pilot in a microlight aircraft is expected to touch down in Darwin this afternoon...”

... or Katherine... or Berrimah... or Melville Island... or Noonambah...