For those just waking or anyone getting ready to catch a train this morning, there is some great news out of V/Line this morning with all Ballarat services on schedule. For more timetable information visit vline.com.au

After speaking with all emergency services this morning, it seems like it was a very quiet night in Ballarat overnight. But while we didn't have any incidents to discuss, the change of seasons did spark a conversation with the Ballarat City Fire Brigade about checking appliances.

As the colder months descend on us, Ballarat City Fire Brigade senior station officer Neville Collins said it was the perfect chance to ensure heaters were up to standard.

"You should always make sure all appliances are in working order," he said.

"If it's getting older you should probably get it checked out.

"Particularly heaters, they should all be checked for carbon monoxide leaks."

As for the weather today, it's set to reach a top of 12 degrees with a slight chance of drizzle. It looks like the umbrella can remain at home over the weekend as well with a top temperature of 14 degrees on both days.

It will remain partly cloudy throughout the weekend with a chance for drizzle early Saturday morning. But it looks like we will see the sun for majority of both days.

The sun and its warmer weather looks likely to stick around for Monday before more rain returns on Tuesday and much of the remainder of the week.

Today's front page story focusses on an Alfredton golf business who has been targeted by burglars for a second time.

The Golf City Ballarat driving range was robbed of about $20,000 worth of stock, cash, computers and a safe.

You can read the full story HERE.

Our senior reporter Fiona Henderson has been covering the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse this week.

She spoke with the final survivor to testify at the Royal Commission who was told by the city’s Bishop Paul Bird he was trying to destroy the Ballarat diocese. 

Andrew Collins said he and fellow survivor Paul Blenkiron met Bishop Bird in early 2013 to discuss paying survivors the difference between the disability pension and the returned servicemen’s pension, which is $252 weekly.

“Bishop Bird told us that we were intent on destroying his church,” he said. 

“He said ‘Andrew, you need to understand something: the Church has endured for thousands of years and, in another 40 years or so, you people will all be dead and all this will be forgotten about, and the church will endure for thousands of years more”.

For full coverage of the Royal Commission click HERE.

In other news, a Ballarat court has heard a young man caught trafficking drugs at the Rainbow Serpent music festival was on the brink of death, "spitting and gurgling" while unconscious in the back of a police car after ingesting huge amounts of the drug GHB. Full story HERE.

Our reporter Alex Hamer also caught up with The Lizardman who was at the Ballarat Wildlife Park yesterday.

The Austin-based star is in Ballarat for the World Sideshow Festival, running from May 21 to 23. Photographer Kate Healy captured this photo of him with Pedro the iguana.

This week also marks the last time we will have all five photographers working in the office. Today we farewell Adam Trafford who has made an outstanding contribution to our newspaper.

We wish him all the best with his future endeavours.