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Spinning class offers better way to burn carbs Award-winning pizza spinner Salvatore D’Avola from Casa Ristorante Italiano is hosting a series of pizza-making classes at King Street Wharf Restaurant, where he has also created a pizza menu. The classes feature all the basics you need to spin and make authentic pizzas. The next class is on June 5. See facebook.com/casaristoranteitaliano. Picture: CHRIS PAVLICH

A man, 23, has been charged after he allegedly led police on a chase on a stolen motorcycle through Redfern and Newtown yesterday.

Police said they saw a Suzukimotorcycle lift its front wheels off the ground while travelling along Broadway at Chippendale about 7.30am.

The rider allegedly did notstop when indicated and police chased the bike, which allegedly reached speeds of more than 120km/h in a 50km/h zone.

He was refused bail to appearat Newtown Local Court today.

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Cops pursue stolen bike

Has a lost ATM card sent you spiralling into panic and explosiveanger? Don’t worry, it’s normal.

New research by Westpacreveals one in eight Australians will lose their treasured ATM card this year.

Nearly half of these peoplewill “completely lose it” and “get

very angry and swear a lot” upon discovering a wallet or purse con-taining their card is AWOL.

About a quarter of Austra-lians will lose their card on public transport or in a taxi, according to the report.

The report coincides with thelaunch of Westpac Emergency Cash, which allows panicked cus-tomers to access their cash from

an ATM with just a phone call.“Many more people face this

issue (of losing their ATM card) than we thought, and it is so much more of an emotional re-sponse than we thought,” West-pac’s chief product officer David Lindberg said.

“We were surprised by peo-ple’s reactions – when losing their wallet, 65 per cent of people

are worried, 60 per cent are up-set, 58 per cent are frustrated, 56 per cent are anxious and 55 per cent get angry.

“We think Westpac Emer-gency Cash really taps into the emotional side of things.”

Under the scheme, once cus-tomers realise their card is miss-ing, or that they’ve left it at home, they can call the customer ser-

vice line and receive a unique code that lets them withdraw cash from their account at the nearest Westpac ATM.

And Generation Y may proveto be the biggest users of the new feature.

They are 1.5 times more likelyto be in a situation where they have no cash on them, Westpac’s research found.

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A mother and her two children were hit by a car at Rosehill, in Sydney’s west, last night.

Police said a car slowly exit-ing a restaurant drive-through struck the woman, 37, and her children, aged 3 and 7, as they walked through the carpark in Hassall St about 8.20pm.

The woman and the three-year-old were not injured, but the woman’s seven-year-old daughter suffered serious leg and head injuries.

Police inquiries into the inci-dent are continuing.

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Car hits mum and two kids

A man has been injured after he fell from an illegal rock swing in the Blue Mountains.

Police said the man, 32, wasamong a group using the giant swing at Hanging Rock in the Blue Mountains National Park about 1.45pm yesterday.

In the activity, people jumpoff an escarpment and freefall until stopped by the rope and swinging pendulum.

The man dropped about 8m toa ledge, fracturing both ankles andpossibly his pelvis. NSW National Parks and Wildlife is investigating.

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On a swing and a dare

Liberal senator Bill Heffernan brought what appeared to be a pipe bomb into a committee hearing today to illustrate the “joke” that is Parliament House security.

“Clearly you can do what youbloody well like,” he told the Sen-ate estimates committee hearing.

Heffernan said he wasconcerned about new, more lax security arrangements currently being trialled.

“I don’t think it any longer is(safe) and to demonstrate that, this morning I brought in what could be – I brought this through security – a pipe bomb,” he said.

Reaching into a plastic shop-ping bag, he then produced what appeared to be several sticks of dynamite taped together.

Heffernan said there wasnothing to stop someone bring-ing explosive ingredients into thebuilding through security over a period of time.

AFP Commissioner TonyNegus agreed this could happen.

“Under the current arrange-ments, that is a risk,” he said.

In 2007, Heffernan carried apocket knife into an airport, claiming he was testing airport security. He was also caught witha knife in Federal Parliament in 2006.

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MP’s security test goes down a bomb

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