Rutherglen 12, Beechworth 10 and Corryong 8.

Mount Hotham -3 and Mount Buller and Falls Creek -2.

The frosty temperatures that have hit the North East are set to ease. Read more.

Firefighters are in a holding pattern waiting on results from Victorian government negotiations over the controversial CFA pay deal. Read more.

Two businesses in Tangambalanga and Kiewa are split on who should be able to provide punters with alcohol. Read more.

“Cancer is not contagious, but hope is and it lives right here on the Border,” is the message from Relay for Life's Kate Wilkinson. Read more.

Corowa's Marcus Fraser has been selected in the first Australian golf team to compete in the Olympic Games. Read more.

Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered. 

► COLAC: Twelve people have been injured, with one in a "critical condition", after a passenger train was derailed when it collided with a semi-trailer near Colac. More here.

► Bellambi: Fifteen-year-old Ellie the staffy has a new spring in her step thanks to a daily dose of cannabis oil under her tongue. More here.

► STAWELL: Police have confirmed a bomb scare in Stawell was a hoax. Ararat Sergeant Brett Johnson said police searched Frewstal Abattoir on Wednesday morning after a bomb threat was reported at 6.15am. More here.

► NORTHAM: Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov took off in his hot-air helium balloon just after 7.30pm on July 12. Mr Konyukhov hopes to fly his hot-air balloon around the world in less than 13 days. More here.

► BURNIE: Peeved optometrists, a  North-West seafood company and unions have helped bankroll Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie’s new party. More here.

► CLEVE: Cleve Area School students and staff are mourning the loss of classmate and friend Joshua Bradtke who died in a motor bike accident on Saturday. More here.

► GOULBURN: Two men have pleaded guilty to tying a kangaroo to the back of their car and dragging it through the City late last month. More here.

► TAMWORTH: It is a wonderful feeling when you find a group of people you immediately connect with. After graduating from the CMAA Junior Academy of Country Music last week, Tumut’s Rory Phillips declared “I found my tribe.” More here. 

► ARMIDALE: A mother of two who claimed she was selling drugs to pay for education costs for her two children has lodged an appeal against her jail sentence. More here.

► HUNTER VALLEY: A Hunter Valley man who was abused by an Anglican priest in Cessnock in the 1960s is urging others who experienced the same trauma to share their stories with the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse. More here.

► QUEENSLAND: A university scientist says an ‘unprecedented’ event has been confirmed with surveys showing thousands of hectares of mangroves on the Gulf of Carpentaria suffering a severe dieback. More here.

► Discount supermarket chain Aldi has issued a recall for hot dog rolls after metal shavings were detected inside some products. More here.

► When police arrived at a house on a quiet Geelong street on Thursday morning in response to a security alarm going off, they didn't expect to find a house full of wildlife, including snakes, lizards and crocodiles. More here.

► A building contractor who told police he'd been punched in the face by a masked man before fire destroyed a hotel part-owned by Collingwood's Dane Swan has been arrested over the arson attack. More here.

► The makers of Streets Paddle Pop ice-creams and Sakata rice snacks have each paid a penalty of $10,800 after exploiting school canteen guidelines to create a "health halo" around their processed products. More here.

► The man who murdered Jill Meagher has had a subsequent rape conviction quashed and his jail term cut by three years after the Court of Appeal found a trial judge erred in allowing a jury to hear crucial identification evidence. More here.

► A bomb scare at Webb Dock East has been resolved after a suspicious object was found to be a mooring device. More here.

► MICHIGAN: Three people have been shot dead and a police officer has been injured in a courthouse shooting in Michigan in the US, police say. More here.

► ARIZONA: The night before a US woman fell to her death at the Grand Canyon, she posted on social media an image of herself sitting near the edge of a cliff and looking at the stunning view, which sent a chill through her mother. More here.

► CHINA: He's the 84-year-old judge from the far side of the world who just stared down China. More here.

On this day

Happy Bastille day! 

Bastille day is the national day of Franche, and commemorates the storming of the Bastille.

What is Bastille? It was a prison on the eastern side of Paris, France, and represented the royal authority and its dictatorial rule. 

On July 14, 1789, it was attacked by a swarm of people, who eventually took hold of the prison and killed the governor (his head was subsequently speared on a stick and paraded around the streets).

While violent and bloody, the storming of Bastille was the start of the French revolution.

Today, Bastille Day traditions include picnics, a family meal (usually lunch), fireworks, and a military parade.

Former Horsham resident and artist Jean Hill celebrated a century of life last month. 

Born in Ulverstone, Tasmania, on June 30, 1916, Mrs Hill has lived in many states across Australia and New Zealand. 

For close to 50 years, Mrs Hill called Horsham home with her husband Don. 

“We moved in 1946 after Don got out of the air force,” she said. 

“We bought a print business from Mr Arkley and we were there until 1998.

“I just loved the area. I’d never been before we moved and neither had Don but we were there for a very long time and had many friends I’m still in touch with.”

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