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WINNERS: Dean Wright, 14, won a gold medal at the Australian National Judo Championships and his sister Norika, 13, won bronze.

"Gentle way" leads to gold, bronze medals for judo siblings

LOCAL brother and sister judo duo Dean and Norika Wright are one pair you don’t want to mess with.

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Aged care facility to close over cost of new sprinklers

LISMORE’S Baptist Community Services-owned Maranoa aged care facility will close, leaving 60 residents without beds and 80 part-time and full-time without jobs.

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Ballina library + visitor information centre = Richmond Room

CONSOLIDATING the Ballina Library and the visitor information centre may enable the Richmond Room to stay open into the future.

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Ballina Jockey Club likely to get a new board this month

AN administrative board for the struggling Ballina Jockey Club is expected to be established this month, following “positive” meetings in Ballina this week.

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Senior Constable Luke Pryke at the Tweed police station with the sleeping bag.

New leads but 'body in a bag' still a mystery

DESPITE leads police have yet to identify the remains of a man’s body found in a bag at Tumbulgum.

WIDESPREAD gas shortages could be on the horizon, according to The Energy Users Association.

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Millions of Syrian refugees face food rationing and cutbacks to critical medical programmes.

Developing countries host more than 80% of world’s refugees

MORE than 23,000 people were forced to flee conflicts around the world every day last year.

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QUEENSLAND Senator Barnaby Joyce has warned the referendum to formally recognise local government in the Constitution is at risk of failing.

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Barnaby Joyce rallies councils for 'yes' campaign

THE academic who called for the legal drinking age to be raised to 21, has expressed concerns about the increasing availability of alcohol in regional areas.

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Prof pushing for Federal Govt to raise legal drinking age

THE Parliament of Australia is again excluded from FOI requests, after a bill to restore the exclusion passed the Senate quietly on Tuesday night.

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Parliament returns to secrecy with exclusion of FOI requests

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Video of this baggage handler carelessly throwing boxes onto a conveyor belt has gone viral.

Internet condemns careless baggage handler

A CARELESS baggage handler has become the latest to earn internet notoriety after video of him clumsily throwing boxes onto a conveyor belt was uploaded.

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A SPECTACULAR spectacular jewel heist in which armed robbers coolly snatched £30 million in diamonds from a plane at Brussels airport ended in near farce.

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Jewel heist ends in farce amid bungled attempts to sell gems

A Gayndah farmer's pumpkin crop has produced strange shapes and colours after being planted in a flooded paddock.

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'Mutant' pumpkins produced from Qld flood water

THE idea of a tail on the Big Prawn is something organisers of Ballina’s first Prawn Festival to be held this year are wagging their ... er ... tails about.

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The Big Prawn finally gets a tail

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Photograph by Denise Alison (inset below) of Maude Boate, a finalist in the Behind the Scenes photography competition.

Photo of Lismore drag queen leads National Geographic comp

A BLACK-and-white image of Lismore-based drag queen Maude Boate is leading a national online photography competition.

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LISMORE City Council is promoting the notion of idea sharing to create positive change – and what better place to start than at home?

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Council urges eco-home owners to open doors, share ideas

A FORMER Southern Cross University student claims units he undertook in global marketing were "educationally defective".

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Failed student wants SCU to refund his money

WHEN Pascal Dattler discovered the film he starred in had just won a $75,000 competition, he celebrated by buying a new surfboard.

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Byron teen's 1 Day in Paradise film wins $75,000

BOOMERANG: Thelma Plum will be at this year's inaugural Boomerang Festival. PHOTO: Carine Thevenau Photo Contributed

Boomerang Festival set to fly

Elcho Island’s Gurrumul together with an orchestra will be coming to the inaugural Boomerang Festival over the October long weekend at the Bluesfest site.

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PATRICK Gorbunovs got this shot of Hire Wire Dare Devils Jess McCrindle and Kane Petersen clowning around at Mullumbimby’s Spaghetti Circus yesterday.

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Byron man arrested over Pottsville armed robbery

LOCAL chefs Gavin Hughes and Shannon Smerdon say consumers want to see more local produce on the menu.

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Local produce and local growers, inspire local chefs

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BE sure to get your copy of the Daily News this Saturday when we take some of the hard work out of grocery shopping for you.

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MURWILLUMBAH residents are part of a formal petition of over 10, 000 signatures from Northern Rivers residents being read to the NSW Parliament tomorrow.

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10,000 signatures against CSG to be lodged in Parliament

OPPONENTS of the $2.5 billion Kings Forest project have had a final chance to voice their opinions, labeling the development environmentally destructive.

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Roads and koalas top concerns at Kings Forest meeting

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More bikies charged after Cooly brawl

John and Bev Mansfield of Mansfields Marine are hoping to sell their business and make more time for volunteering, seeing their grandkids, and of course enjoying some time out on the water. Photo: JoJo Newby / Daily Examiner

Focus on Yamba's local identities and ripping yarns

UPDATE: Daily Examiner photo journalist JoJo Newby will again be hitting the streets of Yamba today and tomorrow as a roving reporter.

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Kudos to The Daily Examiner in sharing stories of the Valley in highlighting some of the characters from the many different areas that make up our rich and vibrant patch of northern NSW. Our local council could take a leaf out of the DEX's attempt to...

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PAGE MP celebrating passage of CSG legislation through Australian Senate

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Saffin: Vital step in CSG fight taken in Senate

MACLEAN is gearing up to celebrate all things tartan to mark International Tartan Day, on Saturday, July 6.

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Kilts at the ready for annual event

THE Grafton community cried out for a Neighbourhood Watch yesterday, but the key will be maintaining interest in the program.

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