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'Grog thug’
A District Court judge has given North Albury footballer Jarrah Maksymow a stern rebuke for his violent offending.
Gordon Lerve told Maksymow he needed to change his alcohol-fuelled ways or face the total loss of a normal life ahead.
“If he doesn’t wake up to himself fairly quickly he’s going to spend a long time in jail,” Judge Lerve said.
“He’s got to stop being a thug.”
Wodonga council boss pushing North East cause in Victorian transport plan
MORE reliable wi-fi, extra toilets and better punctuality are improvements being pushed for the North East V/Line train service by Wodonga Council boss Patience Harrington.
The chief executive has been appointed the North East delegate on the Victorian Government’s Regional Transport Advisory Group.
That role will see Ms Harrington help shape plans for trains, buses and taxis in the region.
Christina Lunt in Bangkok during explosion at Erawan Shrine
A BORDER woman who works just six kilometres from the fatal blast in Bangkok doesn’t feel like her safety has been threatened.
Albury’s Christina Lunt has been in Bangkok for work for just over a month and on Tuesday she made contact with family and friends to let them know she was safe after a bomb exploded on Monday about 6.30pm local time, 8.30pm AEST.
The blast at Erawan Shrine, just near Ratchaprasong Junction, killed at least 21 people and injured more than 120.
Albury memorial service remembers Vietnam veterans
VIETNAM veterans gathered in Albury on Tuesday to remember those lost, not to pass judgement on what happened nearly 50 years ago.
Government, defence and police representatives joined veterans and their families at the SS&A Club Memorial Wall for the service organised by Murray Border Association Vietnam Veterans.
Association patron and former deputy prime minister, Tim Fischer, himself a veteran, said he would “wait and see” the outcome of a review into award citations from the 1966 battle of Long Tan.
O&M flag a chance for a night final at Norm Minns Oval
THE Ovens and Murray league will put future plans for a night final to the test at Wangaratta’s Norm Minns Oval on Saturday night.
While the league won’t play a night final this season, it will gauge interest in the concept at the match between the Magpies and Wodonga.
Birth more important than Ritchie’s 400th
ST PAT’S veteran John Ritchie says there’s no way he’ll miss the birth of his child so he can play his 400th game on Sunday.
Ritchie’s wife Shannon is due to give birth to their second child in the coming weeks - a sibling for little Scarlett - but doctors believe it could come early.
“I’d probably have to turn up next year and play one game or something like that,” Ritchie laughed.
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A chilling video has emerged that could show the exact moment a bomb was planted at a famous Hindu shrine in the Thai capital on Monday night. More here.
Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.
► DEVONPORT: HIGH on ice and heroin, 24-year-old drug addict Alex thought he was Ozzy Osbourne. "That's the madness behind it," said Alex. More here.
► HUNTER VALLEY: Stay-at-home mothers and middle-to-high income earners are the real faces of the Hunter’s ice epidemic. New research shows that perceptions about ice users were not representative of the people who actually face addiction to the drug. More here.
► MUDGEE: A covenant or deed poll placed on the cemetery at the former Upper Bylong Catholic Church, located on KEPCO Australia’s 3000 hectare Bylong Coal Project site, has been raised with the company. The company is currently working through the process of identifying and working with descendants of those buried with plans to relocate grave sites. More here.
► LEETON: LEETON High School staff and students have decided on a unique way to honour the memory of their teacher and friend Stephanie Scott. More here.
► WAGGA WAGGA: A WOMAN has spoken of the horror when she found her neighbour’s six-month-old kitten strangled to death in a senseless act that has enraged the city’s animal lovers. More here.
► WIMMERA: Residents are being overcharged for gas because of estimated meter readings. More here.
► ILLAWARRA: It had the heart of a lion; now the notorious ‘‘Torpedo Pig’’ of Lake Illawarra will be turned into cat food. More here.
► GOULBURN: Police have located and arrested a man who escaped from Goulburn Correctional Centre on Tuesday. It is understood the inmate tied bedsheets together to scale a prison wall. More here.
► KATHERINE: LESS than 45 minutes before flying out of the chute in front of hundreds of rodeo fans on Saturday night, 14-year-old Eli Bee was exhibiting a level of calm not matched by cowboys decades his senior. More here.
► BENDIGO: FOUR-year-old Edward Boyer could soon be on the verge of taking his first steps. But, first, he will need to travel to South Australia to undertake intensive treatment for cerebral palsy which is unavailable in Victoria. More here.
► BALLARAT: PRO gamers have been doping for years in a bid to earn the big bucks at pro tournaments. According to Ballarat’s avid gamers, the use of performance-enhancing drugs has always been common in professional gaming tournaments. More here.
► Tony Abbott has moved to heal a rift with Aboriginal leaders over their push to establish a unified Indigenous position on what constitution recognition question should be put to the people. More here.
► A proposed "technologically advanced" cashless welfare card will link to recipients' mobile phones and restrict them from spending payments on gambling or alcohol. More here.
► The appetite-suppressing power of hot chilli is being studied by Australian researchers who hope it will lead to a weight loss drug. More here.
► Thousands of jewels, 400 metres of fabric and dozens of man hours - Aysha Mehajer's wedding dress was as extravagant as the wedding itself. More here.
► NORTH KOREA: Kwang-il Park was interrogated, tortured and had his teeth knocked out by a guard to prevent him from biting off his tongue. He is in Sydney this week speaking at a lecture as part of the North Korean Human Rights Week. More here.
► INDONESIA: There are no survivors from the doomed Trigana Air plane crash in the Indonesian province of Papua. More here.
► INDONESIA: Justice Minister Michael Keenan will warn of the grave threat of foreign terrorist fighters and the spread of violent extremism during an historic visit to Jakarta this week, saying Australia has much to learn from Indonesia. More here.
► 2013: New Zealand's first same-sex marriages take place since the country's parliament passed the Marriage Equality Bill in April.
They say laughter is the best medicine and for breast cancer survivor Linda Bullent this proved to be true.
The Maitland resident was diagnosed with stage two triple negative breast cancer in August last year.
The diagnosis came just before her 46th birthday and put her face-to-face with her own mortality.
“You do think, 'is that the end?'” she said. “Feeling sorry for myself made no difference, but laughing did.”
Read Linda's story here about how she put together a little joke book to help people laugh even when they think they can’t.
