HOLDEN driver Garth Tander has given himself a shot at the $2 million V8 driver grand slam bonus after holding out the hard-charging James Courtney in a nail-biting finale to the second 250-kilometre leg of the Adelaide 500 yesterday.

IT WAS Sydney first, second and third on the final day of the city's first V8 Supercars street racing carnival.

ILLAWARRA coalminers have raised more than $2500 for charity in an annual football competition that pits miner against miner.

The hidden wells of Sumatra are deadly to its endangered animals, writes Russell Eldridge.

AN Illawarra war historian is adamant that more than 400 soldiers buried in pits in northern France should be exhumed and given separate burials.