Category: Headlines
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GOLD COAST BUSHFIRE
A bushfire in the Gold Coast hinterland has burnt about 12 hectares, producing large volumes of smoke. It broke out in old pine forest at Tamborine, shortly before midday. No homes are currently under threat.
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MAN UNDERGOES SURGERY AFTER SHARK ATTACK
A man is undergoing surgery following a shark attack on the New South Wales Mid North Coast yesterday afternoon. The 31-year-old man was spear fishing off the headland near Green Island, which is a protected grey nurse shark habitat. He was swimming back to his boat – holding a fish – when a grey nurse…
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MAN DIES IN PACIFIC HIGHWAY TRUCK COLLISION
A man has died after the B-double he was driving collided with a semi-trailer south of Port Macquarie this morning. Both were travelling southbound on the Pacific Highway at Herons Creek at about 6:45, when the B-double hit the back of the semi. Ambulance officers found the male driver of the B-double trapped in the…
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TEENAGER DEAD AFTER MOREE STABBING
A 16-year-old boy has died after he was stabbed in Moree this afternoon. Police say the boy was fatally injured during an altercation in Balo Street shortly after 3 o’clock. Another 16-year-old boy is assisting Barwon police and the State Crime Command’s Homicide Squad with their inquiries into the teenager’s death.
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MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FOR FISHERMEN
Two fishermen had a lucky escape this afternoon, after their tinnie capsized off Port Macquarie’s Town Beach. In a dramatic rescue, the men were pulled to safety by the crew of a local whale watching boat.
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ROLLER DERBY ATTRACTS UNLIKELY GROUP OF ‘FRESH MEAT’
Health professionals by day, roller derby dames by night. Tonight on NBN News, we look at the nurses, midwives and medicos from across the Hunter, skating up a storm in the Newcastle Roller Derby League. It’s brutal, chaotic and at times, down right dangerous. And while you need to be prepared to out your body…
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FORMER NRL PLAYER IN DRAMATIC COAST ARREST
Former NRL bad boy Anthony Watts is in trouble again, two months after being charged with assault. The 25-year-old was handcuffed by police outside his ex-fiancee’s Miami home this morning, before being taken to hospital. It’s alleged he was making death threats, while claiming to be armed with a gun.
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YOUNG COAST ATHLETES TURN IN TOP PERFORMANCE
A thousand young athletes hit the track, and turned in the performance of their lives for the 26th annual Gold Coast Invitational. For some, the biggest hurdle, was competing in the first place.
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VIDEO: SINGLETON BUS CRASH
An eight-year-old boy is dead and two children airlifted to hospital in a critical condition, after a school bus and truck collided in Singleton just before 4 o’clock this afternoon. The crash, at the corner of Church and Kelso streets, left several others with serious injuries, including the bus driver, who’s being treated for cuts…
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TWO MEN TO STAND TRIAL OVER POLICE MURDER
Two men will stand trial for the murder of Detective Senior Constable Damian Leeding. While his mother and sisters sat in court.. Damian’s patrol partner recalled her reaction to the horrifying sound of gunfire.