Well done to the boys. A well deserved win after a fantastic season. Can we pinch 3rd place off Arsenal this weekend?

A BLACK Saturday survivor feared for his life during a wombat mauling in Flowerdale yesterday that lasted up to half an hour and only ended when he was saved by a neighbour.

Bruce Kringle, who lost his house in the deadly blaze, was in hospital last night recovering from bites and lacerations sustained in the ferocious attack.

Early yesterday morning, Mr Kringle, 60, was walking down the steps of the caravan he is living in while his house is rebuilt when the wombat attacked.

The crazed animal bit and scratched Mr Kringle, who tried to escape but kept being knocked over.

Mr Kringle eventually lay on the animal until a neighbour, known only as Rob, heard his cries for help.

After telling Mr Kringle to move off the animal, the neighbour killed it with a blow from the back of an axe.

So now I've seen it all. I never knew it was illegal to kill rampaging marsupials.

A prostitute has walked away with $2.5 million spent by a banker stealing clients' money to fuel an extravagant lifestyle of sex, booze and luxury property.

Stephen Gerard Versalko, 52, married with three children, lived the high life for nine years after siphoning $17,763,110.19 off 30 wealthy clients from ASB Bank, where he worked.

Outside of buying property, his biggest spend was on sex – including $3.34m on just two Auckland prostitutes with whom he had long-term relationships.

One received $2.5m, the other $791,181. The Serious Fraud Office said both women also say they received further "large cash payments" estimated at $800,000.

Still more was spent at a variety of escort agencies around Auckland. The SFO could not track all the payments because they included cash taken out using seven credit cards that Versalko had.
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The gravy train finally came to a halt in August last year, when one of his elderly clients with $3m invested with Versalko saw a documentary about US fraudster Bernie Madoff and spotted similarities in the schemes they both ran.

When she contacted ASB Bank Securities to check, she found no record of her $3m. It triggered an urgent investigation and, on August 25, Versalko was confronted, admitted the fraud and was later sacked.

How ironic. If it wasn't for Bernie Madoff he wouldn't have got caught.

I have a huge pile of photo's from my travels, which I hope to post soon.

More to come. Soon. Really.

On another note, some parts of Britain have had the heaviest rainfalls ever recorded.

I'd like to see the whole thing. This has has quite a bit chopped out, but still well worth a look.

3 hours till Spurs v Sunderland. Beaten by Arsenal 3-0 last week. Here's hoping for a better performance.

I plan to do a few more TV reviews in the coming weeks, time permitting.