Put your spending  to the credit check
22 Dec 09 | By PAUL BLACKLOW CREDIT cards can be a safe and convenient tool for purchasing goods and services, especially over the internet or phone, or an expensive form of credit that can lead to fin
Tiger service takes prowl out of parking
22 Dec 09 | LAUNCESTON City Council has encouraged shoppers to avoid parking costs and take advantage of the new free Tiger Bus service this Christmas. The bus aims to make it easy and affordable for people t
22 Dec 09 | ROYAL Life Saving has requested pool owners in Launceston check the safety of their swimming pools following the release of new drowning statistics. New figures show 59 per cent of all toddler dro

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SPORT

Is this the great Aussie turn-off?
8:42 AM AEDT | EMPTY seats at the nation's cricket grounds are fast becoming blood on the carpet at the Nine Network with cricket's long-term broadcast partner hit by a major fall in TV audiences for the sport.
1:00 AM AEDT | THE location and timing were no coincidence. Just four days after the AFL rolled out its general of the western front, Kevin Sheedy, in Blacktown, rugby league's propaganda warriors yesterday chose the same place to return fire.
Registers jingle in Christmas spend-up
TASMANIANS look set to rekindle their love affair with spending this Christmas, according to ...
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Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uranium
8:47 AM AEDT | BEIRUT: In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ordered the nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent purity to serve as fuel for a Tehran medical reactor.
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An insider's view: David Wilson should have been saved
9:00 AM AEDT | Former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans is the key to the truth on why the Keating government wasted five chances to bring kidnapped Australian David Wilson home alive from Cambodia in 1994.
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