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12:45 PM AEDT | IT’S been a successful weekend, but the Tamworth Regional Super Show has been held at the Tamworth Showground for the last time.
12:45 PM AEDT | RESPONSE times have been reduced for the Tamworth-based Westpac Rescue Helicopter thanks to its new navigation technology.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE 2010 Barossa Valley to Tamworth Mountain Bike Challenge riders undertake the 82km leg from Carrathool to Griffith this morning after a weekend of contrasts.
4:00 AM AEDT | ORGANISERS of the 2010 Moonbi/Kootingal Motor Show and Historical Machinery Exhibition have declared the event a success.
4:00 AM AEDT | A BARRABA woman is appealing to Premier Kristina Keneally to resolve the water supply crisis that has affected the North West town in recent years.
4:00 AM AEDT | THREE days of driving to participate in a warm-up session can only spell dedication for 21-year-old Western Australian Caitlin Bolger.
4:00 AM AEDT | ICED cakes still play a major part of the ceremony in a wedding and the standard of entries at the Tamworth show indicate the art is in no risk of fading out.
4:00 AM AEDT | THE Tamworth Showground was the place to be on the weekend, with thousands of people visiting the town for the Tamworth Regional Super show.
4:00 AM AEDT | TAMWORTH is close to securing the biggest sporting event to hit town in years with the annual City versus Country Origin rugby league match within its grasp.
13 Mar 10 | GUNNEDAH mayor Adam Marshall has no fears for the future of the mining industry in the region.
Councillor Marshall said he was surprised by what he saw as “alarmist” and “doomsday claims” that mining would cease because of last week’s Supreme Court decision to declare as invalid arbitrated exploration access agreements on two Caroona properties.
13 Mar 10 | IT’S only hair. That’s why Tamworth woman Simone Mitchell will shave her head to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation today.
13 Mar 10 | INTEREST in the junior judging events at Tamworth Show yesterday was keen, with students from as far as Scone, Guyra, Gunnedah, Barraba and Manilla and Tamworth schools Farrer, Calrossy, McCarthy and Peel High competing for honours.
13 Mar 10 | A NAMOI catchment water study should be put to tender within the week with the successful applicant to be announced about the end of April.
13 Mar 10 | SOMERTON farmers are losing up to 50 per cent of their income because heavy vehicles can’t use the village’s bridge to cart hay, it has been claimed.
Farmer John Brigden, from Old Menedebri in Somerton, said transport companies were no longer including Somerton in their runs because it cost too much to access the town the long way, via Attunga.
13 Mar 10 | A MAN has died and a woman is in Tamworth hospital with serious injuries after a two-car accident on the New England Highway at Kootingal yesterday.
13 Mar 10 | TAMWORTH Regional Councillors are to meet next week to discuss battle plans in the wake of yesterday’s State Government refusal to fully fund the Somerton Bridge.
12 Mar 10 | MEMBERS of a group vehemently opposed to the building of a $227 million powerline between Tenterfield and Lismore have put their case to Energy Minister John Robertson.
12 Mar 10 | “ABSOLUTE nonsense” is how Member for New England Tony Windsor described the NSW Minerals Council’s dire end of all mining predicitions yesterday.
“(The comments are) a thinly veiled attempt to pressure the NSW Government into changing the law,” Mr Windsor said.
12 Mar 10 | MOONBI will be motoring at the weekend as classic cars, tractors, trucks and even stationary machinery roar to life under the expert coaxing of enthusiasts.
It is the annual Moonbi/Kootingal Motor Show and Historical Machinery Exhibition, and this year, more exhibits than ever before are expected to fill the Moonbi Showground.
12 Mar 10 | REMEMBER why.
The message from the Brad Hillier Foundation for drivers to slow down made its way to state parliament this week.
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