REPLACEMENT of the ageing regional rail fleet, starting with new XPTs, will be accelerated with $50 million to speed up delivery of new trains and improve comfort and reliability. Deputy Premier Troy Grant and Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance announced extra money has been committed,...
REPRESENTING her school on the national stage has earned St Philomena’s School Year 5 student Xanthe Cogan state recognition for her long distance running efforts. Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall was pleased to have the opportunity to present Xanthe with a NSW Government State Representative...
SALLY Torrens and Zach Hatch are two young trainers looking to snare Melbourne Cup day success at the Tamworth Jockey Club’s Single Builders race meeting tomorrow. For Tamworth trainer Zach Hatch it’s a case of his whole stable turning out in the $6000 Single Builders Class...
MOREE Vehicle Restorers’ Club members are reeling after losing everything in an alleged deliberately-lit fire that gutted their club house at Moree Showground on Sunday. But the club, which had only just re-formed and was attracting new members on a daily basis, will fight to live another...
UPDATED: 4.30am, Monday, October 31 MOREE Vehicle Restorers’ Club and Moree Show Society have lost restored vehicles, valuable equipment and cherished memorabilia after a fire – allegedly deliberately lit – gutted a set of three storage facilities at Moree Showground on Sunday. The restorers’ club, which had only...
This article has been updated on this webpage. Please go to: http://deluxecafemoree.com.au/valuable-vehicles-memorabilia-and-equipment-lost-in-moree-showground-blaze/ MOREE fire brigade, police and paramedics were called to Moree Showground at around 2.30pm today (Sunday, October 30) when a group of sheds were allegedly deliberately set on fire. The set of three double-garage-sized sheds, on...
CHIC Hartin remembers with absolute clarity the day she drove her 16-year-old son Blake Spriggs to Muswellbrook for his first ride under race-day conditions. It was mid-March, 2008, and just another day at the office for most senior jockeys. But for Spriggs it was a red-letter day...
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall today welcomed a $46 million NSW Government program to boost student learning through better technology in rural and remote public schools. Mr Marshall on Tuesday hosted Education Minister Adrian Piccoli and NSW Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott AO in Moree and...
STOCK theft, bio-security and illegal hunting are among the issues up for discussion at the annual Rural Crime Investigators Conference that kicked off in Port Macquarie today. The two-day conference that began this morning (Tuesday, October 25) provides a rare opportunity for NSW Police’s 34 specially-trained...
THREE males - two adults and one teenager - have been charged after allegedly detaining another man and threatening him with a firearm in Moree. About 8am on Saturday, October 22, a 25-year-old man attended a home in Brand Street to meet with a 30-year-old man who is...