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HOPEFUL: Glen Innes schoolgirl Jennifer May Mackenzie could become a featured vocalist at this year's Schools Spectacular in Sydney. Photo: Steve Earl

Glen Innes schoolgirl has hopes set on Schools Spectacular

Nicholas Fuller

Anzac Day 2019 | Where and when it all happens

Steve Green

PASSIONATE: Aberdeen farmer and Scone High School teacher Tony Lonergan will stand for the Greens.

Farmer, teacher and Greens candidate for the New England

Jamieson Murphy

Michael and Julie McNamara with Carol and Badja Sparks and their

Glen Innes mayor to protest Adani coal mine

Andrew Messenger

Adam Blakester, independent candidate for New England.

Independent candidate Adam Blakester visits Glen Innes

Andrew Messenger

Sanar Al-Shaklee

New horizons for new doctor

Andrew Messenger

Uncle John Kirk doesn't have much hair to cut.

Haircuts help bring mental happiness to Glen Innes

Andrew Messenger

HOPEFUL: Glen Innes schoolgirl Jennifer May Mackenzie could become a featured vocalist at this year's Schools Spectacular in Sydney. Photo: Steve Earl

Glen Innes schoolgirl has hopes set on Schools Spectacular

Nicholas Fuller

Anzac Day 2019 | Where and when it all happens

Steve Green

HOPEFUL: Glen Innes schoolgirl Jennifer May Mackenzie could become a featured vocalist at this year's Schools Spectacular in Sydney. Photo: Steve Earl

Glen Innes schoolgirl has hopes set on Schools Spectacular

Jasmine Klingner in the bending final. Photo: Miss Kayellebee - Kristy Bullen.

Zone 13 riders excel at state championships | Photos

Ellen Dunger

BRIDGING THE GAP: Players in the Group 19 system will have more opportunity to pursue a rugby league career with a partnership between the Bulldogs and Greater Northern. Photo: Brenton Hodge.

Partnership with NRL club welcomed by Glen Innes locals

Ellen Dunger and Geoff Newling

THIRD ROUND DEFEAT: The Elks started their season with wins against the Blues, pictured, and the Barbarians before losing to Robb. Photo: Catherine Stephen.

Elks suffer first loss of the season at the hands of Robb

Ellen Dunger

Jasmine Klingner in the bending final. Photo: Miss Kayellebee - Kristy Bullen.

Zone 13 riders excel at state championships | Photos

SUCCESS: The annual Country Cup proved hugely popular and the host club Northsports collected five medals. Photo: Jonathan Farnell

A five medal-haul for Northsports at their annual Country Cup

Ellen Dunger

Rams and Magpies share spoils across three grades | Photos

Ellen Dunger

Craft beer makers are using ingredients like Tim-Tams or kangaroo in experimental brews

Tim Tam and Roo beer featured at festival

Melissa Meehan

A design for a new gender-neutral "gingerbread person" to be sold by a British supermarket chain.

UK chain to release 'gingerbread person'

Edd Dracott

Healing with a haircut: Walkabout Barber returns to New England

Craft beer makers are using ingredients like Tim-Tams or kangaroo in experimental brews

Tim Tam and Roo beer featured at festival

Eggs sold in NSW and Victoria are being recalled over possible salmonella contamination.

More eggs recalled over salmonella fears

GROWING UP: Will Howard, 4, and Max Lancaster, 5, with a jar of snow pea seedlings they germinated and grew at St Mary's Rainbow preschool. Picture: Emma Hillier

How to get kids to eat more veggies?

Jody Lindbeck

Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries chief executive Tony Weber is urging motorists to check if their vehicles are affected by the Takata airbag recall.

Car makers call for vital safety check

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CUP CAPERS: Devlann edges out Mishani Stealth to take out the 2018 Glen Innes Cup. Local trainer Paddy Cunningham has nominated 12 horses from his stables.

Races to be a galloping success

LUCKY LOCAL: Local trainer Paddy Cunningham has nominated 12 horses from his stables for the six-race program. Two of these are entered in the cup.

Cunningham hoping for a big cup win

Geoff Newling

Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries chief executive Tony Weber is urging motorists to check if their vehicles are affected by the Takata airbag recall.

Car makers call for vital safety check

From the desk of Mrs Claus: Mrs Claus opens her heart to tell the children of the world how she feels about them this Christmas.

A note from Mrs Claus to share the joy

Mrs Claus

A holy and safe time for all of us

House of the Week | Decked out for views

House of the week: Decked out for views in North Tamworth

House of the week: Californian charm mixed with a slice of history

Cyclists in the Ride for Country Kids talk to the pupils at Coolamon Central School.

Ride for Country Kids nears fundraising goal

Joanne Crawford

Annabel Brooker and Bethany Bell during the Glen Innes launch.

Book launch encourages single people to find joy

Naomi Shumack

Tattersalls Hotel, circa 1900, possibly when Joshua Scholes was the licensee.

Looking back at Glen Innes history: Tattersalls a hotel equal to the best

Eve Chappell

Cyclists in the Ride for Country Kids talk to the pupils at Coolamon Central School.

Ride for Country Kids nears fundraising goal

Margaret Fulton in white bonnet and her father Sandy, the older gentleman in the centre of the photo taken in the Old Hospital Courtyard c. 1928.

A master tailor in high demand

Eve Chappell

REACH OUT: McGrath Foundation breast care nurses and supporters are looking for local champions in every community to help lead the Pink Up Your town fundraiser this year. More than 100 additional nurses are needed to meet demand.

How Pink will your town go to help women with breast cancer

Joanne Crawford

HOPEFUL: Glen Innes schoolgirl Jennifer May Mackenzie could become a featured vocalist at this year's Schools Spectacular in Sydney. Photo: Steve Earl

Glen Innes schoolgirl has hopes set on Schools Spectacular

Recipe: courtesy of Sydney Seafood School. Photo: Franz Scheurer

Cuttlefish with chorizo and potatoes, pan-fried

How the python managed to get the drop on the tawny frogmouth is currently unknown

Watch a python devour a tawny frogmouth

Firefighters tackle the blaze as flames and smoke rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris. Photo: Thibault Camus/AP

See inside fire-ravaged Notre Dame

Winx says farewell, with Randwick a sell-out

John Ellicott

A police van parked outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London after Julian Assange was arrested. Julian Assange (inset) as he was taken from the embassy.

Julian Assange arrested by British police

Costas Pitas in London

nside the farrowing shed at Glasshouse Country Farms where 68 vegan activists staged a protest but raised alarm bells about biosecurity breaches (left) and Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals Leader Michael McCormack (right)

Coalition pledges to lock up militant activists

Mike Foley

Murray Darling Basin Plan protesters want to 'pause the plan'

Vivienne Jones

Climate future relies on an end to division

Picture: Paul Harris

Jobs endangered as Great Barrier Reef dies

Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Torquay last week. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer

OPINION
'Getting a go' isn't the same as getting a fair go

Ebony Bennett

YOUR SAY: Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia is on the lookout for older Australians to be part of its 2019 Federal Election Panel. Photo: Paul Jeffers

Federal election: Be a voice for older Australians

AN ILLNESS: On average, one in four people experience anxiety at some stage in their life. Photo: Shutterstock.

Almost a decade wait for anxiety treatment

Samara Ross

"Who would have thought it?": Prolific singer-songwriter Brian Cadd, once described as "Australia's answer to Quincy Jones", marvels at a lifetime in the music business. His latest album, recorded in Nashville, is Silver City.

Brian Cadd rocks his babies

John Piggott

Scott Morrison is staring down calls for a Murray-Darling Basin Plan inquiry.

Joyce unfazed by water purchase scrutiny

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An Australian Active Service Medal, Afghanistan Medal, Australian Defence Medal and NATO Medal ISAF.

Are these your medals? Medals found in SA

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Sri Lankan Army soldiers secure the area around a church following deadly bomb blasts.

Two Australians dead in Sri Lanka bombing

Craft beer makers are using ingredients like Tim-Tams or kangaroo in experimental brews

Tim Tam and Roo beer featured at festival

Labor is deciding whether to back calls for a royal commission into an $80m water purchase.

Water issue flows into election campaign

Angus Livingston

Bill Shorten says Labor would make it easier for migrants to bring elderly parents to Australia

Labor gives migrant parents cheaper visas

Angus Livingston

The claim by Labor's employment spokesman that underemployment remains high is mostly true.

Underemployment stays high under Liberals

PM Scott Morrison says love will help Sri Lanka heal after a devastating series of terrorist bombs.

PM talks up Australian multicultural curry

Katina Curtis

Tattykeel's Poll Dorset group winners of the Peter Taylor Memorial Perpetual Trophy. Holding sheep are Kirsty, Graham and James Gilmore with Kelvin Cronk, Kaybunda, Old Junee, sashing.

Poll Dorsets again supreme

Mark Griggs

Holstein junior champion female, Cherrylock Chassitys Innocence shown by Brad Gavenlock (right) and Jess Gavenlock, Cherrylock Cattle Co, Tallygaroopna, Victoria and sashed by judge Marcus Young, Ridgely, Tasmania.

All the heifer and dry cow results in the dairy show

Hannah Powe

Cattle committee chairman Greg Watson with the champion heifer of the all breeds youth competition exhibited by Georgia Herne, with judge Stuart Lockhart, Terara.

Georgia Herne wins all breeds youth competition with Ayrshire heifer

Hannah Powe

Australians aren't letting travel costs stop their holiday fun.

Travelling Aussies pay top dollar for their accommodation

Get your Game of Thrones fix in person, on site

Beautifully presented: Le Petit Flot’s prawn-and-avocado salad is one of chef Colin Yee's creations, which are all to kill for.

Sydney's heart opens up

JOHN ROZENTALS

Craft beer makers are using ingredients like Tim-Tams or kangaroo in experimental brews

Tim Tam and Roo beer featured at festival

Melissa Meehan

BEAUTIFUL FLOORS: The beauty of today's flooring is the vast amount of options to fit every style, budget and home. Image courtesy of Carpet Court.

Tips for creating Moroccan and botanical style

BEAUTIFUL TRADITION: Colourful Paschal eggs, often made using beeswax and natural dyes, are part of Lithuanian Easter traditions. Picture: Shutterstock

Easter around the world