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The former licensee of an Albany hotel has been jailed after arranging for the pub to robbed and set on fire so he could pursue an insurance claim — with CCTV footage having shown him being accosted by two men.
Source: ABC News | Duration: 23sec
Topics: arson, albany-6330
Where the slang term 'lit' came from
By Tiger Webb
In the good old days to say that something was "lit" meant the object of discussion was somehow illuminated. But at the start of the 20th century, something changed.
Bring back Bert
By Alle McMahon
Joseph Siracusa was traumatised as a child having to practise taking shelter under his desk in case of a nuclear attack on Chicago, but after the incident in Hawaii over the weekend, he says it may be time to revive the Cold War-era safety mascot Bert the Turtle.
Linguistic inventions aren't new
Efforts to coin words that people wish would exist have a long history and enjoyed a particular vogue in the early 1980s before the dawn of the internet.