‘Sink Hole’ that has closed a lane on Canning Hwy #perthtraffic; CLIP

Our reporter @RoryDCampbell has the latest on the 'Sink Hole' that has closed a lane on Canning Hwy #perthtraffic http://pic.twitter.com/FbbvbME2Hq

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SBS Soccer man: Les Murray has died at the age of 71 Tributes tonight on SBS

Noranda man, the NBN is so bad in his area that his kids can’t study at home; 6PR Podcast

LISTEN: Noranda man tells @G_Parker, the NBN is so bad in his area that his kids can't study at home.https://t.co/8ARpUKUQ2i

— News Talk 6PR 882 (@6PR) July 17, 2017

3 CNN Journalists Resign After Retracted Story on Trump Ally

Three prominent journalists at CNN resigned on Monday after the cable news network was forced to retract and apologize for a story on its website involving a close ally of President Trump.

The article — linking Anthony Scaramucci, a hedge-fund manager and Trump confidant, to a Russian investment fund supposedly being investigated by the Senate — was removed from CNN.com late last week after the network decided it could not fully stand by its reporting.

The resignations are a black eye at a sensitive moment for the news organization, which has emerged as a regular target of Mr. Trump and his supporters. The president relishes dismissing the network’s coverage as “fake news,” and his closest advisers have accused the channel of harboring a bias against Mr. Trump.

CNN’s president, Jeffrey A. Zucker, has invested enormous resources into political and investigative coverage of the Trump White House, and he was deeply upset by last week’s reporting errors, according to two people briefed on the network’s discussions over the weekend who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

 

UPDATE LINKS: Couple having sex at the races: Video goes viral

FRISKY racegoer has been left mortified after an X-rated clip of her having a sex went viral.

Marissa Sonkur, 22, was secretly filmed getting intimate behind a beer tent at packed Kelso Racecourse — about an hour outside of Edinburgh.

The sex tape, which shows the half-naked couple in the act, was later posted online.

Marissa, of Hawick, Roxburghshire, told pals: “It’s not the classiest thing I’ve ever done.”

The hairdresser was so mortified she hid from her mum for a week.

One of Marissa’s friends said: “Marissa ended up staying with a friend for a week because she couldn’t face her parents after it got out.

“It wasn’t just a one-time thing — she has been seeing the guy for a while.

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“Everyone had a few drinks and then they left the tent together to get some privacy.

“But we think one of his pals followed them and recorded part of it without their knowledge.

“Everyone has seen it and her whole family know about the video, even her gran.

“She was totally gutted.

“She knows she was kind of in the wrong but this person should never have filmed it — it’s creepy.”

 

Car fire on Roe Highway Perth

THERE was traffic chaos along Roe Highway this morning after a car fire forced the closure of the left lane.

Emergency services received a call at 8.22am Friday that a car bonnet was on fire along the arterial route after Orrong Road, East Cannington.

Firefighters managed to extinguish the fire by 8.46am.

Dramatic footage of the vehicle fire sent to PerthNow shows how quickly the car went up in flames.

Traffic was diverted off the Orrong Road off-ramp.

Source: Car fire on Roe Highway | Perth Now

Trump DENIES asking Comey for a loyalty pledge + refuses to answer whether he records conversations

President Donald Trump has flat out denied asking former FBI director James Comey for a loyalty pledge and has refused to answer questions about whether he records conversations in the White House.

In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night, Trump said he never questioned Comey about his loyalty.

‘No I didn’t, but I don’t think it would be a bad question to ask,’ Trump said.  ‘I don’t know how that got there because I didn’t ask that question.’

Trump was referring to a New York Times article this week that alleged he had demanded loyalty from Comey during a private dinner at the White House in January.

Associates of the now-fired FBI director claimed Comey had told them he declined to pledge loyalty to Trump but said he would always be honest with the president.

Comey had allegedly said Trump asked twice during the private dinner. Sources close to Comey said he now believes this dinner conversation may have sealed his fate.

When Trump was questioned by Jeanine Pirro about whether he recorded these conversations with Comey, the President refused to comment.

‘That I can’t talk about,’ he said. ‘All I want is for Comey to be honest and I hope he will.’

It comes after Trump seemingly lobbed a veiled threat at Comey on Friday, hinting that some of their conversations before his firing may have been recorded.

‘James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!’ the president tweeted.

It’s unclear whether Trump was warning that the White House is recording his calls, or if he believes the FBI may have been recording Comey’s.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters Friday afternoon that the Oval Office would be silent on the matter: ‘The president has nothing further to add on that.’

Challenged about the tweet itself, Spicer said: ‘That’s not a threat. He’s simply stating a fact.’

Comey’s alleged version of events about the White House dinner is vastly different to the conversation Trump himself described in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Thursday.

While it is not clear if they are talking about the same dinner, the pair are believed to have only dined together privately once.

Trump indicated that he had dinner with Comey at the former FBI director’s request – and said Comey was angling to keep his job.

‘I had a dinner with him. He wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. We had a very nice dinner at the White House,’ Trump said.

‘He asked for the dinner?’ Holt followed up.

‘A dinner was arranged, I think he asked for the dinner,’ the president hedged. ‘And he wanted to stay on as the FBI head.

‘And I said I’ll consider and we’ll see what happens. But we had a very nice dinner. And at that time he told me ‘you are not under investigation’,’ Trump said.

Trump said he had asked Comey – once over dinner and twice by phone – if the FBI were investigating him as part of its probe into alleged collusion between members of his campaign and the Russian government prior to the election.

The President showed no concern that the request might be viewed as interference in the active FBI probe.

During that same interview, Trump declared he had planned to fire Comey all along, regardless of whether top Justice Department officials recommended the stunning step.

Source: Trump DENIES asking Comey for a loyalty pledge | Daily Mail Online