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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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Saffin: Vital step in CSG fight taken in Senate

PAGE MP celebrating passage of CSG legislation through Australian Senate

Kilts at the ready for annual event

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

Neighbourhood Watch sought but enthusiasm must be maintained

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

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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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Emerald Beach longboard surfer John Schmidenberg took fun to another level at Port Macquarie, winning his heat of the NSW Longboard Titles with a headstand ride.

Schmidenberg advances through opening heat hands down

THE waves at Port Macquarie were described as fun lefthanders but Emerald Beach surfer John Schmidenberg took the fun to another level on Wednesday.

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Coffs Harbour MP Andrew Fraser believes yesterday's NSW Budget is a winner for the local electorate.

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Fraser: Budget invests to meet growing needs of Coffs Harbour

SAWTELL'S own legend of the longboard Richard Smith wasted no time in stamping his mark on the NSW Longboard Titles in Bonny Hills.

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Bonny time had early by Sawtell longboard star

STAFF at the Coffs Harbour Health Campus’ Emergency Department have been celebrating the installation of some new donated equipment.

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Gulaptis dogged by persistent union campaign

MEMBER for Clarence Chris Gulaptis would be well justified in wondering where Tyrone Dungey from the nurses’ union will pop up next.

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WHEN boot strikes ball at McKittrick Park today in the under-14 opener to The Daily Examiner Shield rounds it will be more than just a game of school footy.

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The Daily Examiner Shield tradition continues

NINETY-year-old Dawn Flanagan can still remember her first car.

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A taste of old-time motoring

PLANNING reforms have alarm bells ringing for environmental group Valley Watch.

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Alarm bells ringing for watch group

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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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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Aged care facility to close over cost of new sprinklers

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 library + visitor information centre = Richmond Room

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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Ballina Jockey Club likely to get a new board this month

Failed student wants SCU to refund his money

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

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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

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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Boomerang Festival set to fly

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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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

IT WAS the world’s most expensive sausage roll. The theft of it proved the last straw for a woman who was jailed after previous history for stealing.

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Sausage roll theft earns year in prison

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