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A Victorian shop owner has turned the tables on a group of bumbling would-be thieves, sending them scampering in fear after a botched robbery attempt.

The group had only been in the empty Kinglake Foodworks store for a few seconds when they copped an unpleasant surprise.

Gloved-up, wearing balaclavas and wielding crowbars – the three would-be thieves meant business.

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They entered the Kinglake Foodworks, making a beeline for the cigarettes, but then a cascade of thick smoke descended from a hole in the ceiling.

It filled the room, prompting a strobe light to go off along with an extremely loud alarm.

It was sensory overload.

The robbers can then be seeing panicking and running from the store empty handed.

"[They] get their hopes up, they can get in and once they're in they can't see or hear each other," store owner Peter Kordos said.

"Hopefully they tell their friends that it's not an easy target."

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Asked how it felt to watch the group run in fear, Kordos said: "It felt fantastic". 

It cost Kordos around $7000 to install the Smoke Shield technology, which is increasingly being used by Victorian retailers to stop thieves.

Kordos beefed up security a few years ago after the store was robbed – sadly, that time the thieves did get away with stock.

It was a wake up call for Kordos, and now the investment in the anti-theft technology has paid off

"Thank god we had it," he said.

"It was extremely satisfying." 

The men involved in Wednesday's break-in turned smoke-out haven't been caught.

But Kordos' not too worried.

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Division One’s million dollars was split between two tickets.

Creating a best-selling book takes a good plot, loveable characters and, now, the social media video-sharing platform TikTok.

TikTok rakes in an estimated 1.8 billion active users per month, making it the biggest social media platform on earth, according to Forbes.

The #Booktok trend sees users share their favourite books, tropes and authors as well as book recommendations through independent hashtags with book and author names.

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"Booktok is the part of TikTok that is all about content about books and reading," said Dr Bronwyn Reddan from Deakin University.

Redden is studying teenage reading habits and preferences, including their use of books and social media.

"One-third of teenagers use social media for books, so far our research shows that more than half are using TikTok" 

"I think its popularity comes from a combination of factors, it's short-form video, its fast, its authentic and relatable."

How Booktok changed the best seller's list

With an audience of over 100 million, Booktok holds the power to make or break authors, and it's been proven time and time again.

Colleen Hover's "It Ends With Us" blew up on the app, garnering over 2.1 billion views on the hashtag.

Before #booktok, It Ends With Us sold 216,000 copies in the US.

As of last October and post #booktok It Ends With Us has now sold over 4 million copies worldwide, attracted a movie deal and created demand for a sequel, called It Starts With Us which sold over 800,000 copies on its release day.

Hoover wrote six of the 10 best-selling novels of 2022, according to Forbes, and was the most-mentioned author in Redden's study of teen reading habits.

"The most popular booktok videos have music in them, the person reading… it's not static it's visual," she said.

"It emphasises the social aspects of reading and makes reading fun."

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Alex Aster, became a sensation on TikTok before her book Lighlark was even released.

She posted a Tiktok to #booktok explaining the plot of her fantasy novel, which she was trying to get published.

The TikTok went viral, gaining 2.3 million views. A week later she was offered a six-figure book deal, and a few months later, a movie franchise deal with universal studios, all while the book was out for pre-order.

The huge numbers even shocked Aster, who posted to TikTok to express her disbelief.

"Somehow I went from posting about a book to having it be sold in 10+ languages and going on a nationwide book tour," she wrote.

Lightlark is currently number six on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover best sellers list and has remained in the top 10 for 23 weeks.

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A bold new Australian-first trial is underway in an attempt to provide fresh hope to children diagnosed with a fatal paediatric brain cancer.

The new research – launched for the first time outside of the United States – will be conducted by doctors at Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick (SCH) and will use a child's own immune system to specifically target Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG).

The process involves CAR-T cells – a type of white blood cell – being taken out of the patient's body in a laboratory, then genetically engineering them to target and attack the deadly cancer.

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The immune cells are then infused back into the child, scanning and destroying the harmful cancer cells.

The trial, called Levi's Catch, is dedicated to the memory of Levi Wheeler, who died at just eight-years-old.

Levi had only just celebrated his seventh birthday when his parents Kathryn and Ben received his diagnosis in 2018.

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Their football-loving little boy's condition was inoperable and he was given a year left to live.

With the support of family and friends, he travelled the world, made new friends, and even carried the match ball at a Real Madrid game in Paris in front of 80,000 fans.

Just a few days after Christmas, Levi slipped away, but his legacy was only the beginning.

To honour his legacy, his parents set up Levi's Project and have since raised an astonishing $4 million, with another $2 million pledged for DIPG research – $600,000 of which will be put towards the new trial.

Levi's Catch is open to children across the country and is a joint effort between the Kids Cancer Centre at SCH, Children's Cancer Institute, Royal Adelaide Hospital and the University of South Australia, with support from the Cancer Institute NSW.

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