AS MEN get older, the toys just get more expensive, but few would have thought the contents of a Pascoe Vale garage would spark a global frenzy.

A PROFESSIONAL punter laid "a substantial amount of money" which "far exceeded his usual or historical betting pattern" on at least eight of Dan Nikolic's mounts shortly after speaking on the phone with the jockey, racing's judiciary heard yesterday.

Port puts sleepover in mothballs

CHASE Weir swears, then screams, as he jumps on the brakes of his runaway vehicle. He has used his mobile phone to call 000, after trying — and failing — to slow his 2002 Ford Explorer on the Eastern Freeway.

CRONULLA'S most notorious fan, Clint Elford, faces a further 22 charges of creating fake medical and legal documents in order to defraud life insurance companies. Elford, of Goulburn, became a key player in the Sharks' nightmare season when it was revealed he had given then chief executive Tony Zappia $30,000..read more