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When AC/DC Ended Up in a Fistfight With Deep Purple The January 1975 version of Australias Sunbury Festival was already facing difficulties that threatened its future. Then AC/DC and Deep Purple got into a fight backstage. The organizers knew they faced financial ruin before the fourth and final edition of the weekend festival took place. The combined pressures of poor weather and low ticket sales (caused, in part, by a steep price hike) meant that, even though it was a popular event, it wasn...

Daily thrives on delivering to its readers. From health scoops amid the coronavirus pandemic to revelations from the inner sanctum of council to breaking news of heartache and crime, we were there first, documenting the regions biggest stories this year. Heres some of the biggest exclusives the Daily broke in 2020. Coast covid fever clinic confirmed: The coronavirus pandemic has been the story of 2020. It claimed lives and completely changed others. The Coast was not immune to the fallout ...

Guardian newspaper said yesterday, in an article titled “Bryan Sykes Obituary,” “The human geneticist Bryan Sykes, who has died aged 73, pushed forward the analysis of inherited conditions such as brittle bone disease and double-jointedness, and was one of the first to extract DNA from ancient bone. The same Bryan Sykes, holder of a personal chair at Oxford University, analysed hair supposedly taken from mythical hominids such as the Bigfoot and Yeti, and announced the results in a three-...

Daily thrives on delivering to its readers. From health scoops amid the coronavirus pandemic to revelations from the inner sanctum of council to breaking news of heartache and crime, we were there first, documenting the regions biggest stories this year. Heres some of the biggest exclusives the Daily broke in 2020. Coast covid fever clinic confirmed: The coronavirus pandemic has been the story of 2020. It claimed lives and completely changed others. The Coast was not immune to the fallout ...

When AC/DC Ended Up in a Fistfight With Deep Purple The January 1975 version of Australias Sunbury Festival was already facing difficulties that threatened its future. Then AC/DC and Deep Purple got into a fight backstage. The organizers knew they faced financial ruin before the fourth and final edition of the weekend festival took place. The combined pressures of poor weather and low ticket sales (caused, in part, by a steep price hike) meant that, even though it was a popular event, it wasn...

If youre able to go above and beyond to help us during this important time, please consider making an additional financial contribution. Click here to contribute. The Pima County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved switching the countys curfew from voluntary to mandatory, including Sahuarita and other incorporated areas. The curfew, which passed on a 3-2 party-line vote, began Tuesday night. It covers the same 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. hours as the voluntary curfew, which began Nov. 24. The coun...

HEAL Partners invests in Higher Ground Education HEAL Partners, a recently formed specialist Health and Education Growth Fund, today announced its investment into Higher Ground Education (“HGE”), a hyper-scaling, tech-enabled global Montessori-inspired education provider. HGE is the largest Montessori operator in the US with 69 U.S. locations across 14 states and with plans to expand to 300 schools across the country. It also has a rapidly developing footprint in China. HEAL Partners succe...

Chester Railway Station. A DRUNK man approached a 75-year-old female shopper and pushed her aside twice at Chester Railway Station was then inappropriate towards the store cashier. Chester Magistrates Court heard on Monday, December 14 that Eifion Wyn Jones, 62, of High Street, Connahs Quay, was slurring his words and unsteady on his feet when he pushed aside the woman at WH Smiths at the station. Prosecuting, Alan Currums said it was about 9.50am on September 22 when Jones approached the...

Jasper Hart December 3, 2020 Decision on handset unlocking seen as progressive, but some say users will get too much freedom Ofcom’s ruling that mobile phone providers must no longer sell locked handsets to consumers from December 2021 has been hailed as a progressive step for the UK market. The ruling affects EE, Vodafone and Tesco Mobile, with players such as O2, Three and Virgin Mobile already voluntarily implementing the sale of unlocked handsets in recent years. Industry experts and anal...

Hawkesbury trainer Brad Widdup would like to see changes made in Sydney. “I would love to see a new track built with a training track incorporated in it,” Widdup said. “We could copy Japan, maybe not on that scale but something needs to be done. There’s too many horses at Warwick Farm and there’s no room at Randwick or Rosehill.” Glen Boss says Sydney needs a new ‘super track’. Picture: Getty Images BIG SQUEEZE One Warwick Farm trainer told this column last month that he feared ...