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Debbie SchippDigital News Director

Debbie Schipp is the Daily Telegraph’s Digital News Director, with a background as a sports writer, editor and columnist and TV writer, editor and columnist, and in print and digital production.

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Lifestyle

Miss New York Mallory Hagan waves after she was crowned Miss America 2013 on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Miss America called ‘fat and gross’

AN EMAIL trail has revealed that Miss America winners were ridiculed in “vulgar” and “appalling” language by management.

National

Taskforce makes largest meth seizure in Australia’s history A record 1.2 tonnes of methamphetamine has been seized on the west coast of Australia and eight men have been charged as a result of a complex, multi-agency investigation which traversed the country. It is the largest meth bust in Australia’s history, topping an unrelated 903-kilogram seizure in Melbourne in the first quarter of 2017. It is the largest ever drug seizure in Western Australia.

$1b meth bust breaks record

ALMOST 1.2 tonnes of methamphetamine was found on a boat in Western Australia. It’s the biggest haul in Australian history.

World

The boy who broke his back attempting a forward roll. Source: astralscope

Teacher sacked after boy breaks back

THIS is the moment a PE class went seriously pear-shaped. It ended with a teacher being dismissed, after a young boy’s attempt at a forward roll ended badly.

Lifestyle

Trent Hunt who ate a goldfish for a youtube video that went viral. He and his mate, boxer Kyron Dryden appera to be emulating the movie Jackass

Man filmed eating goldfish in pet store

TRENT Hunt calls himself a comedian. Along with his mate, boxer Kyron Drydon, they put ‘funny’ clips on Youtube. But few are laughing about his latest stunt. Warning: Graphic

National

CCTV shows the moment a car ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians at Melbourne's Flinders St. Picture: Channel 7

Shocking moment car hits crowd

CONFRONTING CCTV footage has emerged of the moment a car ploughed into pedestrians. WARNING: Graphic content.

Technology

Aug 28, 2002 : Person using Telstra phone box in Sydney, PicNoel/Kessel. / Telephone / Boxes payphone

Death knell for Aussie payphones

AS SUBSIDIES to keep them operating across the country are wound up early, is this the beginning of the end for the Aussie payphone?

World

This screengrab made from video footage released by the United Nations Command on November 22, 2017 shows a North Korea defector running out from a vehicle at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Dramatic footage of a North Korean soldier's defection released on November 22 showed him racing across the border under fire from former comrades, and then being hauled to safety by South Korean troops. The defector, who ran across the border at the Panmunjom truce village on November 13, was shot at least four times and has been recovering in a South Korean hospital. / AFP PHOTO / UNITED NATIONS COMMAND / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / UNITED NATIONS COMMAND (UNC)" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Shots, chaos at Korean border

ANOTHER North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea across a heavily-militarised border. And two more civilians have joined him.

World

Bethany Stephens' pet dogs were found next to her body and are3 believed to have mauled and killed her

Grisly details of woman mauled by pets

BETHANY Stephens was an experienced dog trainer who loved her pet pit bull dogs. She was found dead, with them “guarding” her body. Warning: Graphic

Entertainment

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2017, file photo, Harvey Weinstein arrives at The Weinstein Company and Netflix Golden Globes afterparty in Beverly Hills, Calif. Weinstein is accused by dozens of women of sexual harassment or assault. He was fired by The Weinstein Co., expelled from various professional guilds and is under investigation by police departments in New York, London, Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. He denies all allegations of non-consensual sex, but he has apologized for causing "a lot of pain" with "the way I've behaved with colleagues in the past." (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Former Weinstein assistant breaks silence

THE assistant of former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has broken her non-disclosure agreement to level more horrific claims against the disgraced executive.

National

Former 7 Adelaide cadet: ‘Enough is enough’

IN the wake of her horror exit from Channel 7 in Adelaide, former cadet Amy Taeuber says she is the victim of a new “orchestrated smear campaign”.

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