Warning over Adelaide 'Clown Purge' and other top stories.

• Warning over Adelaide 'Clown Purge'

  

  THE international craze of clowns scaring people has come to Adelaide, prompting a police warning about reports of pranksters in costumes holding knives and other weapons.Sightings on Friday night have been confirmed at Mt Barker, Murray Bridge, Gawler, Valley View and Fulham Gardens but Facebook pages have also reported clown sightings in other Adelaide suburbs and South Australian regional towns.Social media is circulating rumours that an arrest was made on Friday where a clown was carrying a ..

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• New Reds striker Sergi Guardiola and partner Susana Garcia ...

  

  FOR Adelaide United import Sergi Guardiola and his partner Susana Garcia Otalora, Adelaide feels like home.The Spanish couple adore their new surrounds — despite arriving just before SA had its fiercest spring storms in more than 50 years as major blackouts and flooding caused much heartache and millions of dollars worth of damage across the state.“Yes we have felt very welcomed from the moment we arrived in Adelaide,’’ striker Sergi, who makes his A-League debut against Newcastle Jets at Hunter..

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• Adelaide Hills Terramin gold mine plan worries wine industry

  

  Adelaide Hills Terramin gold mine plan worries wine industry Posted October 08, 2016 14:02:03 A gold mine proposed for Woodside in the Adelaide Hills could harm the region's food and wine production, local businesses and primary producers who are fighting the plan say.Inverbrackie Creek Catchment Group chairman Jim Franklin-McEvoy said they were worried there could be an adverse tourism impact as the mine site would be adjacent to two big Hills wineries, Petaluma and ..

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• Don't fang it, call in the experts

  

  ROLLY Burrell has caught hundreds, perhaps thousands, of snakes in his 37 years in the game.On 30 of those occasions the snakes have had the last laugh, managing to sink their fangs into the knockabout 57-year-old’s body and inject their powerful venom.On three or four of those 30-odd occasions it looked likely that Rolly could actually become a casualty of the job he loves so much.“Yeah, I’ve been in intensive care a few times in my younger days,” he says matter of factly.“I’ve had the family a..

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• SA weather: Storm damage at Linear Park trail worst Adelaide ...

  

  SA weather: Storm damage at Linear Park trail worst Adelaide council has seen Posted October 08, 2016 08:40:31 A trail of destruction left along the River Torrens and Linear Park trail after South Australia's wild storm will take weeks to clean up and repair, the Charles Sturt Council says.The storm sent a torrent of water down the river causing it to swell by five metres.It caused mud slides, trees to fall, significant debris and damage to the popular walking and cyc..

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• Redundant Adelaide Holden workers offered positions in Victoria

  

  Up to 50 Holden workers from Adelaide have been offered work in regional Victoria. (AAP) Up to 50 truck driving positions in regional Victoria have been offered to workers made redundant as Holden’s Adelaide factory ceases production of the Cruze model. Victorian transport company Porthaul attended a job expo hosted by the Holden Job Transition Centre in Adelaide last week to feature jobs in the south-western Victorian city of Portland, Owner/Driver reported. The company is reportedly seeking t..

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• De Villiers targeting Adelaide Test

  

  Injured South Africa captain AB de Villiers is still holding out hope of playing in the Proteas' upcoming Test tour of Australia.The superstar batsman succumbed to an elbow injury before Australia's current five-match one-day series in South Africa and underwent surgery earlier this week.Doctors have given him no chance of recovering in time for the Proteas' three-Test series which starts in Perth on November 3.But the 32-year-old says he still believes he can prove his fitness for South Africa'..

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• Search for murdered woman's journey

  

  POLICE are seeking dash cam footage of the journey grandmother Myrna Nilsson took through Adelaide on the day she was found murdered at her Valley View home.Mrs Nilsson, 57, was found dead just after 10pm on Friday, September 30, after being assaulted in her family home on Bunbury Tce.Information through CrimeStoppers placed Mrs Nilsson’s white Fiat 500 sedan, with the personalised registration plate ‘MYRNA’, near the Ingle Farm shopping centre and Montague Rd at Ingle Farm.Major Crime investiga..

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• Low fuel parks Socceroos in Adelaide

  

  The Socceroos have suffered a hiccup in their preparations for their World Cup qualifier with Japan after their flight home was forced to divert.Turbulence and headwinds which required the team's Etihad Airways flight home to refuel, were cited as the reasons for a pit stop in Adelaide en route to Melbourne on Saturday night.The Socceroos' frustration at the likely three-hour delay is exacerbated by the fact that Japan have enjoyed an easier transit for Tuesday night's match.The Blue Samurai def..

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• Indigenous struggles evident as Adelaide students visit Sweden to ...

  

  Indigenous struggles evident as Adelaide students visit Sweden to learn about Sami By Sarah Collard Updated October 08, 2016 10:25:54 Adelaide students returning from a visit to Sweden have learnt of the struggles of the Indigenous Sami people, who they say endured stolen generations and forced removal from their land — much like Indigenous Australians.One of the students on the tour group, Jacinta Barbour, said it was a heartbreaking but empowering trip."I have a..

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