B&b Shares Show Spark Of Recovery

INVESTMENT bank Babcock & Brown is clawing back some of its losses as its financiers hash out a solution to its rapid share price plunge.

Forwards Sending Wests Into Reverse

AGAIN, Wests Tigers have a big problem. And after more sizeable Tigers players went down yesterday against Parramatta, they may be forced into a big solution.

Murder By Rote, Thus Step In The Bland-as-stone Cops

THE GIL MAYO MYSTERIES 8.30pm, ABC1: The first mystery demanding solution is why this sub-standard BBC detective series was given the go-ahead, let alone made and put to air. It is desperately ordinary - a slab of formula contrivance so bereft of originality or credibility that watching it can only increase depression about the dwindling of originality in the medium. Peak oil and creative perigee? Crimes of the kind that have contributed to the rapid depopulation of Midsomer are thrown across the ...

Park Or Bicycle Track? Environmentalists Go Into Battle

It's been 12 years and still no solution to a 300-metre gap in the bike network.

Rail Report's Half Solution

DEBATES about public transport often follow a familiar circle. Some want lower fares to encourage more patrons, arguing that this will lift total revenue and allow investment in better services to attract more passengers. Others demand better cost recovery up-front, insisting that services ought to be more self-sufficient and that passengers should not be too heavily subsidised from the public purse.