Olympic Dream On Show

An exhibition of Olympic memorabilia is in Kiama today as part of a country-wide travelling show. The AMP Ignite The Dream tour features torches from the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games up to Sydney 2000 as well as historic merchandise ranging from T-shirts to entry tickets. The free exhibition spe

Hospital's Darkest Day Has Staff Coping Carefully With Light Duties

The corridors were dark in the Royal Women's Hospital yesterday, with here and there the odd torch to show a doorway. In the wards, nurses did what paperwork they could wearing miners' lamps. In the nurseries, too, it was torches and lamps, wielded by nurses to change the babies' nappies and c

Thriller Leaves Too Much To Chew On

A BEAM of light piercing the gloom; it's a very '90s thing, a law enforcement officer and her high-powered torch, illuminating a city's dark places. Above all, think of agent Scully in The X Files, Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs; iconic women with torches, going boldly where no ordina