| Family With 2 Sets Of Triplets Displaced By Fire
Jillian and Jessica are having nightmares. The Lasita's have been struggling to make ends meet. Their house was in foreclosure and to be sold at a sheriff's sale next month. But the Lasita's say they've been doing everything they can to keep this house, even making extra payments through a payment plan to catch-up. They had no insurance on the contents of their home, and no insurance on the car they lost in the driveway. They say they are hurt that some have cast suspicions that the Lasita's set this fire themselves. "If that was the case, common sense, my God, these are my children, my life, I was shocked" said Victoria Lasita. "This is our life", said Tim Lasita. "The other stuff will come, you know." "I don't care about anything else, we've got these guys," added Lasita.
Barry Humphries hospitalised
Humphries' illness interrupted his plans for festive season celebrations at his Sydney home. He arrived in Sydney from England in mid-December and is due to begin the Dame Edna Live and Intimate tour in the US later this month. His manager Harley Medcalf told The Daily Telegraph that the Melbourne-born comic was recovering well. "He saw a doctor on Saturday and was admitted on Sunday, before having the operation on the same day,'' he said. "I saw him today walking down the corridor. It was a wonderful sight.'' Humphries was in good spirits yesterday despite missing the New Year's Eve fireworks. "His attitude is very cheerful and he will be off to the US in a couple of weeks,'' Mr Medcalf said. "He's always working and touring and that hasn't been interrupted by this at all.'' Humphries shot to fame after moving to London in his early 20s.
The secret scandal of the refugee beggars
TIME HAS just about run out for Lidya Ghebrehiwet. If it wasn't for a combination of charity and luck, the 26-year-old Eritrean would be sleeping rough on the streets of Glasgow tonight. Within days though, her luck will run out and she'll be homeless, destitute and barred from working in order to feed, clothe and shelter herself. Ghebrehiwet is merely the latest refugee to be reduced to the status of a non-person by the UK government. Few know about the scandal, but cases like hers are far from uncommon. From Glasgow to London, Home Office policy has turned an estimated 5000 men, women and children - who say they are in peril of their lives in their home countries - into down-and-outs. In one month alone in Glasgow, the Scottish Refugee Council counted 154 refugees and their dependents living as beggars in the city.
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