Action during the demolition derby. Photo: Rohan Thomson

While many Canberrans were hoping to avoid a car crash on their way to the south coast, others at Moruya were deliberately seeking one.

Moruya's finest, clad with flannel shirts and beers in hand, watched a dusty demolition derby from the comfort of their living room couch, perched on the back of their utes, of course.

The rules of the game were simple - drive your car into other vehicles as fast possible and cause as much damage as possible, while avoiding injury.

"The demolition derby is the real drawcard for people who haven't been to a racetrack before," race marshal Ian Riley said.

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"The drivers hold up a white flag when they've had enough and the cars often leave a metre or two shorter."

Mr Riley, who resembled Moruya's Hunter S Thompson lookalike, organised the drivers with no sign of a serious injuries he got just six weeks earlier.

While racing at another meeting, Mr Riley struck a wall at 80km/h in his cart and broke three ribs, punctured a lung, and damaged vertebrae.

He was just one of many drivers who boasted about their extensive injury lists, added to over many years at racetracks on the south coast.

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If one developer gets its way, some of the oldest works in Phoenix may be long gone come February.

Arizona artist Ted DeGrazia painted a series of murals inside 222 E. Roosevelt St. in 1950. GreenHAUS is currently housed in the building, but the business will be relocating in Feb. 2015.

Developer Baron Properties/North Roosevelt Apartments LLC hasn't publicly released all their design details yet, but the general plan would include demolition of the 222 E. Roosevelt building and the adjacent office complex at the northwest corner of 3rd and Roosevelt Streets.

A Change.org petition calls upon Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to halt these plans and preserve the historic building and murals. Community organization This Could Be Phoenix also has proposed an alternative plan, according to the petition authors.

Visit Change.org to sign the petition or a see a photo of the imagined new site.

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Police in Nanyang, Henan province, have detained the leaders of a house demolition team alleged to have used AIDS patients and HIV carriers to threaten locals to move away, according to the city's publicity department.

Local police did not reveal details, saying the team is still being investigated and it is not yet known whether it included genuine AIDS patients or just used the possibility of infection with the disease as a threat.

Nanyang's Wolong district government and the city's Yi'an Property Development Co denied they set up such a team to clear the way for real estate projects.

Ma Bing, Party chief of Wolong district, said the district government has established a special task force to probe the case.

"The findings will be made public, as the case has raised great concern among local residents," Ma told local media.

A lawyer said organising such a demolition team violated the rights and interests of not only property owners but also AIDS patients and HIV carriers.

Residents in the district's Sanchang housing estate said the team arrived in a housing estate at the beginning of December, according to Beijing News.

"They showed their medical record books that indicated they were AIDS patients to threaten locals to move away," a local housewife surnamed Liu was quoted as saying by Beijing News.

"They told us they were actually hired by a local real estate developer for 300,000 yuan (S$63,000) to force locals to move away for construction of a new real estate project, and they wanted to earn a large sum of money to treat the disease and make a living," Liu said.

"They began harassing residents by visiting every household in the estate and even setting off firecrackers at midnight," Liu said.

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THE DEMOLITION of a derelict park keepers house in a Victorian park will start in the New Year marking the beginning of a 3m restoration project.

Workers will move in and begin pulling down the house at Durham Citys Wharton Park on Monday January 5, with work expected to take two weeks. The area will be cordoned off and the rest of the park will stay open.

The historic park will close in spring for 12 months for extensive work, including a new heritage centre and caf, new play and fitness areas and restoration of the amphitheatre, battlements and miniature car track.

Cllr David Stoker, who has been closely involved in the project, said: We are all absolutely delighted to be in the position where we are breaking ground.

Wharton Park is the jewel in the crown of parks in the county, which was becoming tired and not far off having to be closed down.

Thanks to the council funding and the money from heritage lottery we are going to be able to transform it in a relatively short time.

He added: We are grateful for the significant investment the Heritage Lottery Fund have put in of 2.45m.

I think thats a reflection ambitious and innovative designs that have come forward.

There is a timeliness about all of this, because there are so many areas that are protected in there, including the battlements overlooking the station.

It is perfectly clear the damage was greater that we imagined, so we could have been looking at paying major costs for renovations. We got there just in time.

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