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Last month, Melbourne man Sam Peluso’s wife received a message from her son telling her she had a new number after dropping her phone down the toilet. He didn’t think much of it. His son had previously dropped the phone down the drain so this latest incident doesn’t seem out of character. “The fact that he dropped his phone in the toilet convinced us it could be him. That’s his style,” Peluso told 7NEWS.com.au. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> There was only one problem – the person on the other end of the phone was not his son. Almost caught When Peluso’s wife first received the message, no one rang the alarm bell. His ‘son’ – who texted from an Australian number – said he had dropped his phone down the toilet, and had to get a new phone and number, Peluso said. Peluso’s ‘son’ then asked for $4095 to help pay part of the bill. “(My wife) went back to him and asked him...

An Adelaide couple on holiday in the Northern Territory said they had to get home by bus 48 hours after their Jetstar flight was canceled over the weekend. Key points: Therese Kenny spent 48 hours on the bus so she could go home after her flight was cancelled A Greyhound Australia spokesperson said there had been an increase in sales due to flight cancellations Jetstar said customers were offered rescheduled flights, but acknowledged availability was limited Therese Kenny and her husband George are on holiday in Darwin and will fly back to Adelaide on Saturday morning. But just five hours before their flight was due to depart, they were told it had been cancelled. Kenny told ABC Radio Adelaide the airline had offered his seat on another flight in about six days. The former Liberal ministerial staffer and state candidate said he also found one-way flights from Darwin to Adelaide on unspecified airlines cost $5,000 each. “We just weren’t in a position to do that, we could have...

Plain text size Larger text size The text size is very large You can feel how quickly Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s star is rising when he tells you that his days as a music student ended less than 24 hours ago. After performing a final recital for his advanced diploma at London’s Royal Academy of Music the night before, the 23-year-old British cellist was free to continue his stint as one of the hottest properties in classical music. Credit: Today, he’s sitting in a corner office at his record company headquarters in King’s Cross, ready to talk about a new album and an Australian tour. He was wearing black jeans and a Paul Smith monochrome shirt with a pattern that, on closer inspection, was made up of hundreds of tiny faces. The old British menswear statesman and young cellist are both Nottingham natives and have become close friends. Kanneh-Mason was wearing a Paul Smith suit when he appeared and has lent his photogenic face to one of the label’s advertisin...