as posted on TheBoltonNews
10:49pm Sunday 28th September 2008
By Graham Hardcastle »
Paul Horton may have helped Lancashire avoid relegation with their fifth win of the County Championship season on Saturday with yet another score above 50.
But the 26-year-old opener, who was born in Sydney, does not think his 58 against Somerset at Taunton will help him gain a call up to the England Performance Programme squad today.
Horton helped Lancashire put the finishing touches to LV Division One survival in the West Country on Saturday with his 113-ball innings, which included 11 fours.
It was the Liverpool-based star’s ninth score above 50 this season, and he finished with impressive stats of 966 runs at an average of 42 to back up last season’s haul of 1,034 runs at 49.2.
Horton has notched two centuries this term, and was being watched by the England selectors through the middle of the summer. Though a lack of a century since May, 30may have has cost him dear.
“I don’t think I'll be involved, so I’ll be heading off to Perth to work on my game,” he said.
“I’m going on Friday unless I get a call up on Monday. If I get a call that would be great, and I’ll change all my plans for the winter, but I’m planning as if I’m not involved.
“I’m going to Perth to play for, and captain, Gosnells for five months. I will be able do some training, and hopefully come back a better player.
“I’ve learned that consistency is key. You’ve got to keeping turning up day in day out, trying to impact on games, and win cricket matches for Lancashire. My job is to score runs, help us win games, and affect games with the way I play. That’s what I’ve tried to learn.”
Horton was helped along by Mark Chilton’s fluent 97 at Taunton, as Lancashire polished off the final 60 runs they needed for victory. The pair shared 151 for the opening stand, the highest of the summer.
Karl Brown chipped in with a typically aggressive 15 not out from 19 balls, including three boundaries. Lancashire captain Stuart Law clinched the win by hitting Charl Willloughby for two consecutive fours in the first over after lunch.
as posted on TheBoltonNews
Monday 29 September 2008
Thursday 25 September 2008
Police search for teen involved in attempted hold-up
as posted on TheWest
25th September 2008, 11:30 WST
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Police are looking for a juvenile who threatened a Maddington shop assistant with a knife last night.
The offender, believed to be aged about 16, entered Coles Express on Burslem Drive, Maddington about 8.45pm.
He took a drink from a fridge and approached the counter and demanded cigarettes from the shop assistant.
The assistant refused and the offender pulled out a box cutter-style weapon, demanding cash from the till.
The shop assistant walked away from the counter and the offender fled the shop, empty handed, by foot.
The offender is described as being of slim build, with a goatee and was wearing dark clothing.
Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 00.
PERTH
LISA CALAUTTI
as posted on TheWest
25th September 2008, 11:30 WST
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Police are looking for a juvenile who threatened a Maddington shop assistant with a knife last night.
The offender, believed to be aged about 16, entered Coles Express on Burslem Drive, Maddington about 8.45pm.
He took a drink from a fridge and approached the counter and demanded cigarettes from the shop assistant.
The assistant refused and the offender pulled out a box cutter-style weapon, demanding cash from the till.
The shop assistant walked away from the counter and the offender fled the shop, empty handed, by foot.
The offender is described as being of slim build, with a goatee and was wearing dark clothing.
Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 00.
PERTH
LISA CALAUTTI
as posted on TheWest
Islamic College fraud accused seeks Christmas in China
as posted on WAToday
* Chris Thomson
* September 25, 2008 - 1:42PM
One of three men from Perth's Australian Islamic College charged with fraud after allegedly obtaining more than $3 million from the State and Federal Governments wants to spend Christmas in China.
In June, Major Fraud Squad officers charged Mark Brian Debowski, 50, and his associates Abdallah Saad Magar, 69 and Aziz Magdi, 53 after search warrants were executed at three of the college's schools in Thornlie, Kewdale and Dianella.
When the trio appeared in Perth Magistrates Court today, Debowski's lawyer asked that his client's seized passport be returned so he could travel to China for business and to visit relatives between December 19 and January 29.
Debowski's lawyer said his client did not pose a flight risk because he had family and business ties to Perth, a $2 million property at Peppermint Grove, and a daughter enrolled for next year at Methodist Ladies' College.
Debowski had visited China in 2007, 2006 and 2005, and had always returned, his lawyer said.
Crown prosecutor Gemma Biggs opposed the passport's return, until she could review details of Debowski's planned itinerary and Perth assets, which had only been recently provided to her.
Magistrate Steven Heath adjourned the bail amendment application until October 1.
He said he was loathe to approve the application until the property and itinerary details could be provided.
But Magistrate Heath noted the passport bid was "likely to be successful" if the details checked out.
The three accused have not yet pleaded to charges that they inflated enrolments at the Australian Islamic College to gain millions of dollars in extra state and federal funding.
Debowski and Magdi were principals at two of the schools, while Magar was the college's founder and director.
It is alleged $3,166,160 in total was stolen from the State and Federal Governments between 2005 and 2006. Most of the money, about $2.5 million, was from the Commonwealth.
The trio faces a mixture of federal and state charges, which carry penalties of up to 10 years' jail for each man.
Magdi and Debowski were bailed to appear in court again on November 20.
as posted on WAToday
* Chris Thomson
* September 25, 2008 - 1:42PM
One of three men from Perth's Australian Islamic College charged with fraud after allegedly obtaining more than $3 million from the State and Federal Governments wants to spend Christmas in China.
In June, Major Fraud Squad officers charged Mark Brian Debowski, 50, and his associates Abdallah Saad Magar, 69 and Aziz Magdi, 53 after search warrants were executed at three of the college's schools in Thornlie, Kewdale and Dianella.
When the trio appeared in Perth Magistrates Court today, Debowski's lawyer asked that his client's seized passport be returned so he could travel to China for business and to visit relatives between December 19 and January 29.
Debowski's lawyer said his client did not pose a flight risk because he had family and business ties to Perth, a $2 million property at Peppermint Grove, and a daughter enrolled for next year at Methodist Ladies' College.
Debowski had visited China in 2007, 2006 and 2005, and had always returned, his lawyer said.
Crown prosecutor Gemma Biggs opposed the passport's return, until she could review details of Debowski's planned itinerary and Perth assets, which had only been recently provided to her.
Magistrate Steven Heath adjourned the bail amendment application until October 1.
He said he was loathe to approve the application until the property and itinerary details could be provided.
But Magistrate Heath noted the passport bid was "likely to be successful" if the details checked out.
The three accused have not yet pleaded to charges that they inflated enrolments at the Australian Islamic College to gain millions of dollars in extra state and federal funding.
Debowski and Magdi were principals at two of the schools, while Magar was the college's founder and director.
It is alleged $3,166,160 in total was stolen from the State and Federal Governments between 2005 and 2006. Most of the money, about $2.5 million, was from the Commonwealth.
The trio faces a mixture of federal and state charges, which carry penalties of up to 10 years' jail for each man.
Magdi and Debowski were bailed to appear in court again on November 20.
as posted on WAToday
Tuesday 23 September 2008
ALL NINJA 250R RIDER (SKITTLES) RIDE 28th September
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