Teddy Bears News

Lives spared by tsunami alerts

Friday October 2, 2009
EMERGENCY workers in Samoa continued the gruelling search for the dead yesterday while survivors told heartbreaking tales of friends and family lost to a series of devastating tsunamis that struck the islands' southern coastlines two days ago.

Family wishing upon a star for Twinkle's return

Tuesday September 1, 2009
SOME of Tim Holding's mates call him "Twinkle" €” because he's a little star. The state cabinet minister who was still missing on Mount Feathertop last night has always been a precocious overachiever.

Grieving community farewells 'five angels'

Tuesday September 1, 2009
A SOLITARY white coffin carried the remains of a devoted mother and her four young children to their final resting place yesterday after an emotional funeral in Drysdale.

Groves' assets corralled

Tuesday July 28, 2009
THE corporate regulator has succeeded in its attempt to freeze millions of dollars of assets held by a mysterious discretionary trust it believes is the "alter ego" of former ABC Learning Centres chief Eddy Groves.

Mysterious assets in ABC Learning case put on ice

Tuesday July 28, 2009
THE corporate regulator has succeeded in freezing assets worth millions of dollars that are held by a mysterious discretionary trust it believes is the "alter ego" of the former ABC Learning chief, Eddy Groves.

Children helped by imaginary friends

Wednesday June 3, 2009
PRINCESS MARGARET had a naughty one. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that they were "sure to be present, abroad or at home, when children are happy and playing alone".

He was violent and controlling. She knew he was a killer. It took police 2 1/2 fraught years to charge him THE MURDERER AND HIS WIFE HIS VICTIM

Friday May 29, 2009
Paul Wilkinson fabricated death threats against his wife and child to get them out of the house while he was having an affair. Michael Duffy reports on the case of a master manipulator.

Column 8

Tuesday January 6, 2009
Lynda Geppert of Narooma asks: "Why have all those teddy bears been nailed to the trees from Canberra to Bungendore on the Kings Highway?" She reports that some have been there for years, but others have been freshly impaled. Perhaps they are meant to serve as a warning to little children - naughty teddies who wouldn't eat their vegetables.

Dollar's Year Of Extreme And Unprecedented Volatility

Thursday January 1, 2009
"IT MAKES the bursting of the tech bubble look like a teddy bears' picnic," says Westpac's Sean Callow, trying to describe the year in currency markets.

Dollar Hits The Highs And Lows In A Wild Ride

Monday December 29, 2008
"IT MAKES the bursting of the tech bubble look like a teddy bears' picnic," says Westpac's Sean Callow, trying to describe the year in currency markets.

When

Saturday January 26, 2008
TODAY Australia Day Breakfast on the Beach - At Werri Beach From 8am, includes bush band and Teddy Bears Picnic, treasure hunt, sand modelling, beach volleyball, brickies relay; Jones Beach, Kiama Downs, 7am-5pm.

Oh! Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear

Wednesday September 7, 2005
CROWDS of toddlers brought their teddy bears for a picnic to celebrate a serious cause at Blackbutt yesterday.

It's Picnic Time For Teddy Bears

Friday April 2, 2004
TEDDY bears will request a ticket of leave from cuddling duties this weekend to attend a celebration in their name at Gleniffer Brae.

Missing Teddy Bear Reunion

Thursday October 16, 2003
A MOTORIST whose childhood teddy bears fell off the roof of his car has been reunited with the toys after Highways Agency staff in England recovered them from the roadside.

Tiniest Teddy Steals Charity Show

Saturday November 24, 2001
Wollongong shoppers could be forgiven for thinking they'd stumbled into the teddy bears' picnic yesterday.

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