PORT Elizabeth police smashed a Transkei-based car theft syndicate yesterday and seized a device used for disabling even the most sophisticated car alarms....more

NELSON Mandela Bay Mayor Nondumiso Maphazi yesterday distributed more than R4-million from the municipal grants-in-aid and proceeds from the mayor‘s annual golf day to more than 150 organisations in the area....more

NSRI Port Alfred station commander Keryn van der Walt was called to a sea rescue on Wednesday morning, only to find that the boat in distress was her own stolen Hobie cat....more

MURDER accused David Best allegedly told two local Baptist pastors that God would not forgive him for plotting to kill his near full-term pregnant girlfriend, Melissa Shelver, with the help of two hired hitmen in February last year....more

CANNON Rocks and Boknes residents have been promised a reliable water supply out of the Eastern Cape‘s next big tourism event, the construction of the multi-million-rand British BEE- funded La Repose tourism resort on the Woody Cape coastline....more

THEY have become known as the angels of Alexandria – a couple who have opened their home to more than 20 abandoned, abused and sickly children to create an extended family like no other....more

A PETITE Despatch teenager proved to be too strong for two burglars when she chased after them on her motor scooter, attacking one with her crash helmet and eventually handing them over to the police....more

GEORGE municipal painter Peter Lewis, his wife Georgina and neighbours have been feeding destitute young children in Pacaltsdorp and New Dawn Park for seven years....more

A ROMANTIC date and pancakes were blamed yesterday for the latest postponement in the marathon Maureen Clifford fraud trial, openly described by legal representatives as “the biggest circus to hit the High Court”....more

A FORMER Port Elizabeth businessman was yesterday sentenced to a combined fine of R10 000 after he had driven into an engineering graduate‘s car while drunk, and killed him....more

IF you can‘t beat them, join them . . . or at least regulate them. That is the attitude that the government has adopted towards the rapidly expanding online gambling industry....more

IF an Australian application to mine Pondoland‘s coastal dunes is approved, short- term benefits to locals will be ensured and the value of eco-tourism enterprises will not be undermined, regional minerals and energy director Nomvuyo Ketse said yesterday....more

TWO communities living next to the site of the proposed Australian ilmenite mine in northern Pondoland have filed a complaint about the project with the Human Rights Commission....more

A PORT Elizabeth primary school principal and his two daughters yesterday admitted to lodging fraudulent claims with the Road Accident Fund....more

SOCCER players from Nelson Mandela Bay will train under Tottenham Hotspur Football Club academy chief coach Leslie Fevrier in London this year....more

THE SPCA drive to spay and neuter thousands of township dogs in the Eastern Cape is bringing down incidents of dogs marauding on farms and game reserves....more

AN elated regional manager at a Transnet subsidiary in Uitenhage is counting the days until he receives his master‘s degree in business administration on Monday....more