The Editorial Team

Lauren McMahMorning homepage editor

Lauren has been a journalist for more than a decade, since graduating with a degree in communications from the University of Technology, Sydney. After completing her cadetship with NewsCorp, she worked at several of Sydney’s NewsLocal newspapers and as a senior reporter at mX, covering everything from national news and politics to travel, lifestyle and entertainment. She joined news.com.au as a news reporter in 2016, and is now the site’s Afternoon Homepage Editor.

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Travel Stories

Charging station for mobile smart phones at international airport - Helpful corner for electronical modern technology devices and smartphones

Don’t fall for this painful airport prank

PRANKSTERS are wreaking havoc on unwitting passengers waiting for their flight with a simple stunt, which is pure evil.

Travel Updates

ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY - FEE APPLIES FOR REUSE - Tourists pose for a group selfie at the police cordon on Westminster Bridge after a car crashed outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, Britain, August 14, 2018. Picture: Andrew Marshall/Reuters

Tourists slammed for ‘bizarre’ photo trend

POLICE immediately locked down central London after a terror attack, but that wasn’t enough to stop the latest outbreak of this troubling trend.

Travel Updates

Danni Hogan and her partner of two years, Louis Aiello, were on the adventure of a lifetime.

Tourist dies after 20-metre jump

LAST month Danni Hogan set off overseas for a year-long trip of a lifetime. It has just come to a sudden, tragic end.

VIC Crime

Police on the scene at Chapel Street South Yarra where a female cyclist was struck and killed. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

Hit-run suspect arrested in Melbourne

A MAN has been arrested in Melbourne’s CBD this evening after a “despicable” hit-run crash which killed a cyclist in South Yarra.

Travel Updates

Goffs, Canada - May 3, 2015: A Westjet pilot navigates a Boeing 737 towards the gate at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

‘She outed me in front of the whole plane’

IT SHOULD have been a routine flight for Lenore Herrem, but instead she was left stunned by a question from the airline staff.

Travel Stories

A Janet Airlines aircraft. Picture: Alan Wilson

Airline needs a pilot for top-secret flights

THE world’s most mysterious airline is looking for someone to pilot top-secret flights of its unmarked planes. And of course, there’s a catch.

Travel Updates

Brit mum Ellie Holman jailed in Dubai for ‘drinking wine’ kisses daughter, 4, in emotional family reunion in UK. Picture: Simon Jones/The Sun

Wine-drinking mum’s emotional return

DAYS ago she was locked up in a “foul-smelling” Dubai jail cell. Now, the mum at the centre of an in-flight wine scandal is finally home.

Travel Updates

Denpasar, Indonesia - November 19, 2015: People waiting at the arrivals hall of Ngurah Rai International Airport (Denpasar) in Bali

Australian teen detained in Bali

A TEENAGER from the Gold Coast is being held at a Bali police station accused of stealing from a duty free shop.

Flights

Lynley Baker was refused a job with Air NZ for having a back tattoo. Picture: Supplied

Tattoo that cost this woman a job

LYNLEY Baker seemed a shoo-in for a plum job with Air New Zealand. Until the company found out about the Tinker Bell tattoo on her back.

Travel Stories

Carrie Bickmore with her children Evie, three, and Ollie, 10. Picture: @bickmorecarrie

Carrie’s nightmare flight with the kids

LONG delays, hungry bellies, cries of boredom and mystery smells. Flying with kids can be hell, but luckily Carrie Bickmore has a good sense of humour.

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