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JOHN Joseph Farrell charged with 25 historic sex offences. Read about his court appearance here.
POLICE have issued stiff warnings after a spate of attacks on cars and buses in Armidale. Find out what has police fuming here.
SCHOOL holidays are here but don't worry, we've got you covered with this list of activities. Save your sanity here.
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Have yourself an egg-sellent little breakfast with your egg-stra fresh eggs, egg-sactly when you want them! End this terrible pun and snag your own laying hens here.
If you've ever wanted to test the "those who live in glass houses" theory, then here's a completely rational way to do so. Pick up your own glasshouse here and finally silence those naysayers once and for all. Sort it all out here.
Why waste your effort on making friends with actual people when you can buy your own bestie - sure, this little critter may not be able to hit "like" on your statuses, but will never tag you in an unflattering photo. Pick up your kelpie mate here.
Did you know?
Armidale’s average winter temperatures are a maximum of 13.1 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 0.0 degrees, while the average summer temperatures are a maximum of 25.5 degrees and a minimum of 12.0 degrees.
Armidale 1970s band Bogislav came second to Sherbet in a state final of a battle of the bands competition run by the Hoadley confectionery company, best known for Violet Crumble chocolate bars.
Samuel McCrossin, an Irishman, his wife and seven children first came to the area that would be known as Uralla in 1839 when they camped on the creek. “Uralla” is a word from the Aniwan tribe, described as a “ceremonial meeting place and look-out on a hill”, or simply a “meeting place”.
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IT WAS a triumphant return to Armidale for author Daniel Reynaud when he launched his new book in the city at the weekend.
Reynaud launched his biographical novel, The Man the Anzacs Revered at the Armidale Dumaresq War Memorial Library.
Daniel Reynaud said he was completely thrilled with the response from the community.
“I am absolutely rapt with the really strong reception,” Reynaud said.
The biography tells the tale of unsung story of Anzac Chaplain William McKenzie who, according to Reynaud, was an unlikely hero.
“[He] was supposed to someone the Anzacs hated but they loved him,” he said.
Reynaud was also united with McKenzie’s own granddaughter Jean Newall, who helped him during his research. “She was bursting at the seams to what she could… it meant a lot to me to meet her,” Reynaud said.
Mrs Newall and Reynaud shared a singalong of a song McKenzie wrote himself before swapping tales about the war hero.
“We sold more than 60 copies over the weekend,” Reynaud said.
“It was really nice to come back.”
Look. Nobody likes Mondays, but there's a silver lining to this soul-crushing cloud - the sun and it's warming rays is like that proverbial spoon of sugar helping the medicine (e.i. that painful realisation that you have to put on clothes that aren't track pants and interact with people at work) go down.
The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted a top of 16 degrees today, so lap it up in the sunshine before we plummet back down to shocking lows.
Check out the rest of the week's weather here.
HUNTER:
STUDENTS dropped lit cigarettes down their peers' pants, threatened to cut off others' fingers with a knife, pulled air-conditioning units out of the wall and drank an entire bottle of alcohol before vomiting at assembly.
These were among the most serious incidents reported at Hunter and Central Coast schools last year. MORE.
SHELLHARBOUR:
Shellharbour ratepayers will have to wait until the 2017-18 financial year to see all the proceeds from the council's $13 million Tullimbar land sale realised.
In April the council said it had exchanged contracts for the sale of a 42.25-hectare parcel of land at Tullimbar to help fund the $59.5 million Shellharbour City Hub project. MORE.
BENDIGO:
POLICE are hunting for those responsible for throwing molotov cocktails at a California Gully home in the early hours of Sunday morning.
No motive has been established for the targeted attack on the house in Hunter Avenue where a man and his teenage child were sleeping. MORE.
ARMIDALE:
MORE disturbing allegations about animal cruelty published in national media at the weekend are expected to be among evidence presented when a parliamentary inquiry into puppy farms sits in Armidale next month.
Several conflicting stories about the state of a number of northern puppy farms and breeding properties will be aired when the inquiry sits in Armidale on July 14. MORE.
WYALLA: Firefighters rescue 12 dogs during housefire. MORE.
BUNBURY:
Police dog Geoffrey has helped apprehend a man who punched a taxi driver in the face and exited without paying the fare.
A 60 year old taxi driver contacted police just after 10pm on Saturday night and alleged that one of his passengers punched him in the face and exited the cab without paying the fare. MORE.
NATIONAL NEWS
HOUSING: The "wall of Chinese capital" hitting property markets in Sydney and Melbourne will not ease up until the government introduces its anti-money laundering legislation, says an expert in 'flight capital'. MORE.
MAFIA IN POLITICS: The Calabrian Mafia has infiltrated Australian politics at both state and federal levels by ingratiating itself with individual party donors and members of Parliament, according to confidential police reports. MORE.
MURDER: A 61-year-old man has been charged with two counts of murder after the deaths of three people in Hermidale in western NSW, which were discovered after someone found a body in the driveway of a rural property. MORE.
NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
TUNISIA:
Before the bullets came laughter. As 23-year-old Seifeddine Yacoubi hopped off an inflatable boat about midday at the popular holiday resort of El Kantaoui, north of Sousse on Friday, he quickly blended into the hundreds of people enjoying a sunny day. The aviation student carried a beach parasol and joked and laughed with tourists as he moved among the mainly European holidaymakers, seeking out anyone from Britain or France. MORE.
UNITED STATES:
Across the United States fossil fuel companies threatened by the rapid growth of renewable energy have started fighting back, seeking to slow down the spread of cheap green power. It is a war between two of the most powerful industrialists in the country, men in part responsible for the creation of the Tea Party and an evolving coalition that includes, ironically, a key Tea Party leader and traditional green activists. MORE.
CAMBODIA:
The company's bulldozers came early one morning and pushed Ota Khami's wooden stilted house into muddy waters swirling towards the Mekong, the 4345-kilometre river whose roaring currents, waterfalls and gorges have long enchanted travellers and inspired explorers.
Ota Khami's seven children and wife wept as the giant machines crushed his mango, cashew and jackfruit trees.
"We couldn't do anything – our lives were ruined," says the 55-year-old villager from north-east Cambodia.
Now, 12 months later, the land that Ota Khami says he slashed and burned in the late 1990s to make his home alongside the Sesan River near the border with Laos has been turned into a canal next to a 75-metre-high concrete wall, one of 11 hydroelectric projects being built, under construction or planned in an area known as the Mekong basin in Cambodia and Laos. MORE.
FACES OF AUSTRALIA: ASHLEY GORDON
HE WAS a legend in the NRL, playing with the Newcastle Knights and Penrith Panthers and was named 1990’s Dally M Winger of the Year.
Now Indigenous footballer Ashley Gordon has turned his attention to helping people off the field.
Mr Gordon now manages the Warruwi Gambling Help program and will visit Wagga on Wednesday to have a yarn about problem gambling. MORE.