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Man rushes to help only to realise car accident victim is granddaughter
A 13-year-old girl is fighting for life after being hit by a car in Perth.
Shaylee Kelton was critically injured just metres from her Eden Hill home after she was struck by a car in front of her own family.
The teenager had been crossing a busy stretch of Morley Drive with a friend about 5pm on Tuesday.
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She didn't see the MG3 being driven by a P-plater until it was too late.
Her grandfather Michael Scicluna saw the crash by chance and only realised it was his granddaughter when he rushed to help.
"She was on her side and we didn't want to move her," he said.
"Everyone was saying 'do this and do that' and I just said 'no, leave her alone, I'm her grandfather'.
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"She was lying there unconscious, not moving, so I just spoke to her and spoke to her.
"The next thing she started gargling and coughed out some blood and I knew she was alive."
The teenager sustained life-altering injuries including two fractures to her skull and bleeding on the brain.
She will remain in an induced coma until the full extent of her brain injuries are clear.
Her family on Tuesday told 9News the next two days would be a waiting game.
While the incident is still being probed by major crash detectives, the girl's family has "nothing but forgiveness for the young driver".
"It was an accident, kids are kids, it happens too often," Scicluna said.
"Kids just have to be wary and be more vigilant on the roads."
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Video shows moment bag snatched from woman getting nails done
The search continues for a woman who entered a Queensland nail salon and snatched a customer's bag.
The 56-year-old client was getting her nails done at the Underwood Shopping Centre on Thursday night when her bag was pulled from beneath her.
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Video of the incident shows a staff member attempting to grab the bag back before the thief runs out of the store.
Five staff members chase after the woman, who is seen wearing a blue hoodie and dark-coloured pants.
It is believed the woman left the scene in a waiting car.
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Prince William got 'very large sum' from Murdoch firm in settlement
Prince William, the heir to the British throne, quietly received "a very large sum of money" in a 2020 settlement with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire for phone hacking, according to court documents aired in one of his brother's lawsuits.
Prince Harry's lawyer made the revelation on Tuesday in a summary of arguments about why his lawsuit against the publisher of The Sun and now-defunct News Of The World should not be thrown out.
The suit alleges the newspapers unlawfully gathered information in a scandal dating back two decades.
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News Group Newspapers, which Murdoch owns, argued that a High Court judge should throw out phone hacking lawsuits by the prince and actor Hugh Grant because the claims were brought too late.
But Harry, the Duke of Sussex, said he was prevented from bringing his case because of a secret agreement between the royal family and the newspapers that called for a settlement and apology.
The deal, which the prince said was authorised by the late Queen Elizabeth II, would have prevented future litigation from the royals.
Harry began pushing for a resolution in 2017 but said he "had enough" after the publisher "filibustered". He filed suit in 2019.
The papers said William, Prince of Wales, later settled for a large, but undisclosed sum.
"It is important to bear in mind that in responding to this bid by NGN to prevent his claims going to trial, (Harry) has had to make public the details of this secret agreement, as well as the fact that his brother, His Royal Highness Prince William, has recently settled his claim against NGN behind the scenes," attorney David Sherborne wrote.
"This is used very much by (Harry) as 'a shield not a sword' against NGN's attack."
The lawsuit is one of several that Harry has brought against British newspapers, including two other phone hacking cases.
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New images show wreck of Australia's worst maritime disaster
Images of the Montevideo Maru shipwreck, Australia's worst maritime disaster, have been released three days after the discovery was announced.
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Sydney man rushed to hospital after being stabbed with kitchen knife
A man has been rushed to hospital after allegedly being stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife.
Emergency services were called to a property in North Sydney just before 3pm.
They found a man, aged in his 40s, who had been stabbed about seven times.
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He has been taken to Royal North Shore Hospital in a serious condition.
A crime scene has been established and an investigation is underway.
Prince William’s touching tribute for Anzac Day
“Remembering Australian and New Zealand soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice.”
The NSW veterans capturing the Anzac Day spirit
Thousands of people across NSW marked Anzac Day in different ways, but nothing personified the spirit of the day like two elderly diggers and the communities who rallied around them.
It was a tradition that started in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic when commemorations and marches were cancelled and instead communities stood in their driveways to pay their respects.
Three years on at the Central Coast, hundreds gather outside 99-year-old Digger Jack Bartlett's Avoca home to mark the day.
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Bartlett served in World War II on HMAS Manoora working in aircraft carriers and as a jet mechanic.
"Grief and despair – two words that are synonymous with war," he told the crowd.
"We are assembled here this morning to remember the original Anzacs who gave their lives who now rest in strangely named towns far away overseas."
Veterans and current defence personnel attended the service alongside Bartlett.
The 99-year-old who is "still able to get around" makes sure to greet every attendee at his Avoca home service, from the young to the old.
"Still able to get around, and talk sensibly, not in a wheelchair or a nursing home. I'm a bit of a freak actually," he said about his age.
He said he looks forward to seeing everyone at his home again this time next year.
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Meanwhile, another World War II veteran has also done his part to continue commemorations on a historic day.
Ian Litchfield has spent decades maintaining a memorial and making sure every Anzac Day is special in the NSW Central West.
The 96-year-old joined the Navy in 1944, serving on HMAS Bataan before he was promoted to able seaman.
Two atom bombs later, he and his shipmates were in Tokyo Bay, on the day Japan surrendered aboard American battleship USS Missouri.
His service continued when he moved to the hamlet of Hampton near Lithgow.
While the obelisk at the local Lowther-Hampton Memorial was erected after World War I, the first Anzac Day Service didn't happen until 1993.
And it wouldn't have happened at all, if not for Litchfield and others.
He lobbied the Department of Lands to have the Hampton reserve gazetted as a memorial.
Since 1997, he's chaired a committee of volunteers – maintaining the site, raising funds, and gathering everything needed to make every Anzac Day special.
"It's a good thing, I'm glad we did it," he said.
He was honoured with an Order of Australia for his service to this community and is one of the oldest Crown Land manager volunteers.
Of the 76 dedicated war memorial reserves – 22 are managed by volunteers.
"People like Ian hold us together," NSW lands minister Steve Kamper said.
"Make sure that those important things that have to be done are done to honour veterans."
Today dozens went to the memorial to pay their respects to Litchfield and other veterans.
Dawn services across Sydney
Across the city and state, thousands of others marked the day starting with dawn services.
Hundreds gathered at Martin Place for the official dawn memorial while services were also held at beachside services in Bondi to Cronulla and west from Parramatta to the Blue Mountains.
Cenotaphs across the state were surrounded by the young and old paying their respects after years of COVID-19 restrictions limiting the commemorations.
"We've missed it over the last couple of years so it's nice to get back to it," one man said at the Martin Place dawn service.
"It means everything to me, it's like my Christmas… well I served and it's a chance to spend some time with my brothers and a chance to remember our forefathers and what they did," a veteran said.
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Thousands march to pay respects in Sydney's CBD
After the dawn services, a march through Sydney's CBD took place with over 10,000 people participating in what turned out to be the biggest parade since the pandemic.
Those who can no longer march were driven while others were wheeled down in wheelchairs.
Younger generations joined the veterans proudly holding photographs of their relatives who are no longer here.
"It is marvellous today. Excellent. We have missed this over the last couple of years, but we are here today. There are only two of us left out of the whole group. We are all in our 90s now," veteran Jim Law said.
The Anzac march was followed by a special service at the War Memorial.
How the suburbs celebrated
In NSW suburbs, memories of friends, families and loved ones were shared at commemorations all with a similar sentiment – no more war.
"It's a sad day, I remember a lot of comrades. They're all gone now," veteran Lindsay Dufty said in Narrabeen in Sydney's Northern Beaches.
"We don't any more war," another veteran said in Narrabeen.
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Grieving parents speak of pain at losing son after primary school teacher found dead in Wellington Harbour after concert
His parents say the pain of their son’s death will remain with them for years to come.