NEWS 13
SUNDAY APRIL 19 2015
Security
breach
has base
in chaos
Six bag
a share
of $3m
windfall
CRAIG DUNLOP
SIX lucky customers from
Howard Springs Newsagency
are celebrating a $3 million
Powerball win.
Newsagency owner Darryl
Copeland said it had been
eight years since they last sold
a Division 1 winning ticket.
“We were due for a big win,”
he said.
“They’re all local people,
and three of the winners are
people we know as regulars.”
Mr Copeland and his wife
Bessie have owned the newsagency for 15 years. He made a
last-minute decision to set up a
new store syndicate on Thursday afternoon, when all his
other syndicates sold out.
“It’s so fantastic! It’s hard to
believe that just a simple
QuickPick has led to six of our
customers winning half a million dollars each,” he said.
“It’s just luck of the draw,
but it’s good to have a big win
every now and then.”
Each of the Howard Springs
locals
will
take
home
$500,000, but their identities
remain a secret.
A Tatts spokesman said the
syndicate split a $6 million
jackpot with a Sydney man,
who won the $3 million ticket
by himself. The Sydney winner
bought their ticket at Ermington Newsagency, in the western suburbs.
The last major Darwin
Lotto winner took home $10
million in January. Thursday
night’s winning numbers were
29, 18, 6, 27, 8, 25, powerball 2.
ANDREW RULE
Howard Springs Newsagency employees Judy Beck and Katie Meehan are excited for the Lotto syndicate winners
‘Talk test’ to work out
best pace in week two
CITY 2 SURF
TRAINING TIPS
By JOHN BOWDEN
ATHLETICS NT
THE first week of training has
been completed and I trust you
have enjoyed the walking or
the running around the streets,
trails and parks of the Northern Territory.
Local couple Barb and Akuhata will be participating in the
4km walk and 12km run.
I believe the first words
from both of them when we
met was “God help us” but said
it with a smile. They are a couple from Darwin who love life
and all sorts of sport but decided that for the first time
they would take part in the
Powerade City2Surf.
It will be exciting to see them
achieve their goals and have
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fun. It can be daunting taking
up new challenges, especially
when you are talking about exercise, and both Barb and Akuhata are up for the challenge.
They both liked last week’s
advice, especially the hint about
less is more as they certainly do
not want to get injured.
For this week I want you all
to make sure you:
WALK and/or run at the
right pace. The pace is determined by your ability to talk
while you train. This will be
your pace for about 90 per cent
of the schedule, so if you can’t
talk with those around you –
you are going too fast.
STRETCH for about 10
minutes after you have finished. It feels good and gives
your body time to unwind.
CHANGE where you walk
and/or run. Don’t get bored by
running the same park or
street. We have amazing areas
in the NT to exercise – variety
they say is the spice of life but
in this case of exercise.
So until next week, enjoy
the week and the sunshine.
We look forward to seeing
you on June 14 and you can
now enter as well, so take advantage of the early bird prices.
DEFENCE chiefs have ordered a sweeping investigation
of missing drugs, weapons and
ammunition.
Days after former AFL star
Ben Cousins sparked a security
scandal at the elite regiment’s
Campbell Barracks in Perth,
Deputy Chief of Army Major
General Rick Burr issued an
urgent directive to all unit
commanders to “audit all controlled stores and ordnance”
across the Army.
The audit is wideranging but
understood to be aimed at the
theft or loss of morphine, weapons and ammunition issued to
special forces in war zones.
SAS troopers and commandos are issued with survival
packs that contain morphine
and other essentials. The special forces “gunslingers” also
use small arms, including Beretta and Browning 9mm pistols coveted by gun-fanciers
and criminals.
“Everyone comes home with
a 9 mil (pistol),” a former special forces member told News
Corp Australia this week.
Other military sources say
that the SAS headquarters
where the troubled Brownlow
medallist was arrested on
March 14 “are in absolute tur-
moil” because of the investigation.
“It’s a disaster in the west,”
said one source.
“They are in a world of hurt.
Weapons are missing, ammo is
missing, radios and security
equipment are missing.”
Also missing are secure
communication codes that, although obsolete, are must be
accounted for or destroyed.
“It’s all indicative of poor
behaviour, poor processes and
a cavalier approach,” an Army
source said of the SAS regiment, seen by some in the military as a “rogue” relation
allowed to run unchecked
since the beginning of the Afghanistan conflict in 2001.
“Command is questioning
the ethos and culture of a group
that has been isolated from reality from too long,” the source
said. “It confirms a widely-held
belief in the regular army that
there’s a lack of due diligence
and discipline in ‘the west’.
“They’ve been in the bush
too long. All they want to do is
kill (expletive deleted). They
get hooked on it.”
It seems clear the audit was
sparked by the fact Cousins
was so easily able to breach up
to three levels of security theoretically guarding some of
Australia’s most elite troops.
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