Meccano Caravan Bolts Off With Helen Lempriere Award

A SCULPTURE inspired by a caravan built by Albert Tucker in his Paris hotel room has won has won this year's $115,000 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award. L'Archeveche by the Tasmanian artist Bob Jenyns, is two-thirds the size of Tucker's mobile home and made from large Meccano-like pieces of powder-coated aluminum.

China Raids Rio

BHP Billiton's plan to create a $380 billion mining colossus through the takeover of a reluctant Rio Tinto has been thrown into disarray following the dramatic eleventh-hour intervention of Aluminum Corp of China and US aluminium giant Alcoa.