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FLIGHT CENTRE SCRAPS $300 CANCELLATION FEE
Australia’s consumer watchdog has welcomed a decision from Flight Centre to stop charging customers for cancelling flights during the coronavirus pandemic. Flight Centre will refund thousands of customers who where charged $300 per person from March 13 to get a refund for a cancelled international flight or $50 for a domestic flight. It means fees…
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NEWCASTLE MANUFACTURER CREATES AUSTRALIA’S FIRST COMMERCIAL SANITISER REFILL STATION
At the beginning of the pandemic, the federal government called on Aussie manufacturers to help meet supply shortages. With hand sanitiser in hot demand, one Hunter business has found an ingenious new way to distribute the product.
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NIB DONATES 100,000 FACE MASKS TO ALLIED HEALTH WORKERS
Allied health professionals like dental workers and physios have found personal protective equipment hard to come by during the pandemic. But a generous donation of 100,000 surgical face masks in the Hunter is now helping safeguard them, and their patients.
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ROAD TO RECOVERY | LAWSON RANKIN GIVES BACK TO ST FRANCIS XAVIER STUDENTS
The community rallied around Newcastle teenager Lawson Rankin when a scooter crash in Bali almost claimed his life. Now he’s on the road to recovery – and giving back in his own way.
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TEENAGE BOY CHARGED WITH HOLDING UP A SERVICE STATION AT GUNPOINT
A teenage boy has been charged over an alleged armed robbery on the Central Coast last month. Police allege shortly before 7pm on April 2, the boy entered a service station on Orana Road at Gwandalan and threatened an 18-year-old employee with a pistol, demanding cash. He then fled the scene. Following extensive inquiries, police…
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TAMWORTH AIRPORT TO GO INTERNATIONAL
Tamworth Airport has been given the go-ahead from the federal government to become a temporary international airport. It comes as the city prepares to welcome the New Zealand Warriors, who’ll be training ahead of the season relaunch. They’re due to fly in from Auckland on Sunday and will need to quarantine for two weeks before…
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DRIVER ALLEGEDLY CAUGHT WITH 430 GRAMS OF MDMA IN PORT STEPHENS
A man will face court today, after allegedly being caught with a commercial quantity of MDMA in Port Stephens. At around 1.30 yesterday afternoon, officers stopped a driver on Nelson Bay Road at Salt Ash. The 24-year-old underwent a roadside drug test and was allegedly positive. Officers searched his car and seized 430 grams of…
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GARAGE GOES UP IN FLAMES AT SINGLETON HEIGHTS
Police are investigating after a garage went up in flames at Singleton Heights. Firefighters responded at around 1.30pm yesterday and found a double garage, which was also being used as a storage space, engulfed by fire. They tackled the blaze with hose lines and used a power saw to gain entry, but unfortunately the contents…
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LOCAL BUSINESS CAUTIOUSLY BACK UP AND RUNNING
The Premier is keen to see more shops reopen their doors – and that’s been heard loud and clear in Newcastle. Slowly but surely, shutters are being rolled up… but the Hunter Business Chamber is also urging caution.
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POLICE WARN OF ONLINE PREDATORS AFTER BOY WAS ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTED IN PORT MACQUARIE
A man has faced court, after allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy he’d met on social media. Detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes arrested the 50-year-old at a home in Port Macquarie yesterday afternoon. The man’s phone was also seized and is being examined. It’s alleged he sexually abused the teenager on Saturday.…