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A Caloundra truck driver overdid his cleaning duties, and threw out his wife’s $80,000 jewellery collection. The couple kept the jewellery wrapped in garbage bags to fool thieves, but Geoff accidently throw it in the garbage. “My wife rang and said where have the jewellery bags gone and I got that sick feeling in my […]

The humble children’s party complete with party pies, sausage rolls and a home-made cake, just doesn’t seem to cut it these days, especially for the parents on the latest US reality TV show Outrageous Kids Parties to air on TLC. From an over-the-top six-year-old’s princess party costing more than $15,000 to a Willy Wonka-style candy-filled […]

The ultimate taboo? One woman reveals how her high school crush... became her husband!

Donna Simpson holds the Guinness World Records title as the fattest woman to give birth, but surprisingly, she is now working towards a new goal to put on even more weight. The 44-year-old from New Jersey broke her first Guinness World Record after she gave birth to a daughter, following a high-risk caesarean birth that […]

Nick and Heather Gleeson have both been blind since childhood, but that has not stopped them striking out on their own, travelling the world and raising two children. Here, they share their remarkable story. When I was seven, I was hit on the head by a door in the supermarket. It was a few days […]