HotGossip.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... over water mains and intruding on the airstrip, causing problems with medical evacuations.” Graham Taylor, the chief executive of local authority MacDonnell Shire, added: “It began four weeks ago with 25 or 30 camels, but every day more and more turned up looking for water.”
tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Despite denials from the defender and his manager, , serious doubts about Ferdinand’s long-term fitness have been mounting since former England manager Graham Taylor claimed that the player had “lost his legs.”
nufc1892 blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... water tanks in the town and are becoming more aggressive towards residents. Local shire chief Graham Taylor said: "I think the words 'under siege' are good words because it talks about people being stuck in their homes and looking out and seeing just numbers of camels at your front door.” Fears have also been raised that the carcases of camels killed in stampedes at water...
Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... to leave their homes. The town is around 150 miles west of Uluru, commonly known as Ayers Rock. Graham Taylor, the chief executive of local authority Macdonnell Shire, told Sky News it was a crisis. "It began four weeks ago with 25 or 30 camels, but every day more and more turned up looking for water," he said. He said the camels would be rounded up and taken out of town...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... over water mains and intruding on the airstrip, causing problems with medical evacuations."Graham Taylor, the chief executive of local authority MacDonnell Shire, added: "It began four weeks ago with 25 or 30 camels, but every day more and more turned up looking for water."He added that the camels would be taken out of town and shot humanely to protect the 330 residents.
Sify (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
... 14 million Australian dollars ($12 million) to pay sharpshooters to kill camels from helicopters. Graham Taylor, chief of Macdonnell Shire Council, said helicopters would shoo the Docker River camels 15 kilometres away from the town, to a place where they could be shot and their bodies left to rot. The first camels were imported in the 1840s and over the next 60 years around 10,000...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... actually come (in), smashing infrastructure." The MacDonnell Shire Council chief executive, Graham Taylor, said the town's water supply was at risk of contamination and there were already some carcasses in the wells. "Water supplies are being broken and damaged, sewers are getting trampled and crushed, the airport is virtually unusable." He said the invasion had traumatised residents,...
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... actually come (in), smashing infrastructure." The MacDonnell Shire Council chief executive, Graham Taylor, said the town's water supply was at risk of contamination and there were already some carcasses in the wells. "Water supplies are being broken and damaged, sewers are getting trampled and crushed, the airport is virtually unusable." He said the invasion had traumatised residents,...
The Register (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
'Some people open their windows and all they see is camels' An Oz Outback community is battling to regain control of its town from a 6,000-strong feral camel invasion, which has seen the thirsty dromedaries cause "chaos" in their search for water.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
Times Online (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
A remote community in the Australian Outback is under siege from thousands of feral camels which have invaded the town in search of water.
