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Miss Lilley loving trade
7:30 AM | WHEN Canadian teacher Robyn Lilley was told she could go on exchange in Australia her response was instant. “Yes, I’m in,” she said. “Miss Lilley” as she is known to her combined year 3 and 4class, has taken part in an exchange program where she swaps her job, house and country with a teacher from Lake Albert Public School (LAPS) for an entire year.
7:30 AM | NEWLY formed Group 20 club Bidgee Hurricanes will make its playing debut at the West Wyalong Knockout on February 24. Knockout organiser Peter Campbell confirmed Bidgee Hurricanes had taken up the last place in the 16-team draw for the two-day carnival at Ron Crowe Oval.
Professor welcomed to campus
7:00 AM | ANY mystery surrounding Charles Sturt University’s (CSU) new vice-chancellor Professor Andrew Vann was quickly dispelled yesterday when he stepped out in Wagga to meet with 160 of his new colleagues. Sharing a laugh, Professor Vann spoke confidently of the institution’s future and said one of his main aims for the Wagga campus would be to further develop the online courses offered to students who undertake distance education.
Advice pays off for Jaffa
7:00 AM | HEEDING the advice of racing legend Bart Cummings has worked a racetrack miracle for Wagga greyhound trainer Sandra Oakman. Fast running out of ideas on how to get rookie racer Red Jaffa to jump quicker from the boxes, Oakman fell back on the words of Cummings to find a remedy.
Poulsen ‘heading for Junee’
6:30 AM | MISSING Sydney woman Kimberly Poulsen is thought to have been headed for Junee after she disappeared from a Sydney hotel, but no one has seen her – or, it seems, the man some believe she was planning to meet. Ms Poulsen was last with friends at the Earlwood Hotel at 2am on Thursday, but according to her family, CCTV footage that shows her leaving her Earlwood home at 7.50am on Friday has since surfaced.
Triple hat-trick put in history books
6:30 AM | JUNEE opening bowler Joe Crowder has etched his name in Riverina cricket folklore by pulling off a rare triple hat-trick. Playing on Saturday, Crowder took an incredible five wickets in five balls against Gundagai to record only the third known triple hat-trick in cricket history.
Overseas companies target older farmers for buy outs
6:00 AM | FOREIGN investors have ramped up their takeover of Australian farms with agricultural land in the Riverina being targeted by Korean, Chinese and US companies. A fall in land prices – especially in the Murray-Darling Basin – coupled with good rain and crops, has sparked the rush and prompted companies to set up a permanent presence in the area.
Hasler is dogs’ saviour: Turner
6:00 AM | ACCORDING to star winger Steve Turner, if one man could deliver the Bulldogs an NRL premiership this season it’s Des Hasler. Since crossing over from Melbourne Storm in 2010, Turner has been riding a wave of finals disappointment as the Bulldogs failed to make the top eight for two years in a row.
NSW shuts the lid on solariums
6:00 AM | KANDIE Bowden knew the time would come for her to sell her tanning bed but she still cannot believe a date in 2014 has been set. Ms Bowden has had one tanning bed in her Fitzmaurice Street salon, Kanz World, for the last nine years and still has clients loyal to the controversial tanning method.
Cyclists take to road to find a cancer cure
6:00 AM | OLYMPIC cyclist Sid Taberlay, 32, is just one of the many riders in the Short Circuit Cancer mountain bike relay in the Royal National Park on Saturday.
Tyrone Walsh dreams of following Luke into the big time
4:00 AM | PENRITH halfback Luke Walsh left the Knights in search of regular NRL football, but his younger brother Tyrone Walsh hopes to one day establish himself in the red and blue of his home town.
Eland breaks silence over sacking
4:00 AM | REINSTATED Northern NSW Football chief executive David Eland has taken aim at former chairman Peter Moore and rejected claims he was sacked because he acted outside of the board’s wishes.
Tears for twin lost in surf at The Entrance
4:00 AM | The loved ones of Keon Sbrugnera were last night clinging to a glimmer of hope the 15-year-old would be found alive. Twin brother Callan and dozens of schoolmates from Wyong High, gathered on a Central Coast beach praying for good news from police and emergency services assisting in the search.
Goal tally boosts Brockie's bid for contract
4:00 AM | IN-form Jeremy Brockie hopes weight of goals will convince the Newcastle Jets to retain him as he homes in on Joel Griffiths’s single-season scoring record.
Northern legal battle headed for extra time
4:00 AM | THE return of David Eland as chief executive officer yesterday is unfortunately not the end of a messy and costly saga for Northern NSW Football.
4:00 AM | MUD, mosquitoes, snakes, and the smell that lingers after an inundation of water are all being contended with as residents of the Moree district begin the long and painstaking task of cleaning up after one of the worst floods in more than half a century.
Second police body to fight rising thefts
4:00 AM | A second police strike force has been set up to investigate the rising number of armed robberies across the Hunter, with 28 businesses being targeted in the past 40 days.
4:00 AM | TAMWORTH and the region surrounding Gunnedah are two of the top 25 places in Australia to invest in 2012, according to a list compiled by a leading property researcher. They were the o
Council crews do the patchwork
4:00 AM | CLEARING road debris and patching continued to be a high priority for Tamworth Regional Council road crews during the course of the weekend and into yesterday.
4:00 AM | ISOLATED storms dumped heavier falls on some parts of Tamworth than others early last night.
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