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Is there any greater teamwork than this? Steering the tandem up the hill and back to Albury in the Lake Hume Cycle Challenge. Another warm night last night and a warm day on the way, sunny and 34 in Albury-Wodonga. Max temps: Corowa 34, Culcairn 34, Wangaratta 34, Corryong 33, Bright 32, Falls Creek 19.
Catch up on news here:
Crucial Murray Regional Tourism funding left in limbo by NSW government
For the past decade, Destination NSW has contributed $90,000 per annum to Murray Regional Tourism. But the funding is due to expire in June and MRT is still waiting on an answer. More here
LGBTQI support group opens arms to Indigo
“A lot of young people wait until they go to Melbourne to come out, and not even that, but to just be confident about their identity.” Indigo Council's Sal Kimber and Sheradon Neilson, 15, have started a social group for LGBTQI young people. More here
$15m upgrade for North East trains in progress
Mayors and chief executives from North East councils will travel to Melbourne on Tuesday to inspect new and refurbished train carriages for the region. More here
Thurgoona Public School to host fundraising colour run
Thurgoona Public School has organised a five-kilometre colour run on Sunday, March 25, starting at the Thurgoona Equestrian Centre as an alternative to the usual fundraising methods. More here
Josh Cale is the new NSW Country Rugby League coach
Former Albury Thunder coach Josh Cale will lead NSW Country against Samoa later this year. He will combine his current Riverina coaching position with the new role. More here
Regional
BATHURST: A woman has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after she was trapped in her car in the NSW Central West for more than 11 hours.
BENDIGO: An amateur BMX rider blackmailed children to perform sexual acts online, threatening to take his own life and to publish sexual photos so their families would see them.
OBERON: Less than a metre tall and having just turned three, Timothy went to live with his mother and stepfather in central western NSW. Relatives say he was happy and healthy, rough-housing with his cousins outside, playing video games and chatting on the telephone.
But on August 6, 2014 – just seven weeks after his mother and stepfather brought him to their Oberon home – he was dead.
NEWCASTLE: The city looks set to get its own wholesale flower market, allowing the region’s florists to source blooms from local growers rather than travel to Sydney.
WA: A school teacher who indecently recorded dozens of children has pleaded guilty to more than 60 offences. The male teacher, who was sacked upon being charged, faced the WA District Court on Thursday and entered guilty pleas to 62 charges, including 57 counts of indecently recording a child.
NT: Work has begun to fix a vital NT bridge which was badly damaged by Tropical Cyclone Alfred last week.
National news
CANBERRA: Senator Cory Bernardi says Tony Abbott should defect and join his new conservative party after the former prime minister was castigated by members of his own party for publicly urging the government to adopt a more right-wing agenda.
CANBERRA: The Australian Border Force has been warned over illegal body searches of passengers at international airports in a report that found immigration officers routinely lacked adequate guidance about their powers.
Photo special
The biggest swap meet in the Southern Hemisphere is a magnet for collectors and automotive lovers from across the country. Photographer Luka Kauzlaric was there, too.
National weather radar
International news
HOLLYWOOD: It was the year the Academy Awards ended in chaos. And then there was the ‘other’ Oscars stuff-up. Minor compared to getting the winner of best picture wrong, but another unhappy error.
JAKARTA: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will visit Indonesia next week, in a surprise move that underscores the success of Indonesian President Joko Widodo's weekend trip to Australia and the close personal relationship between the two leaders.
WASHINGTON: Key Republicans, including Trump allies, are talking up the gravity of the US President's Russia crisis amidst signs of heightened paranoia at the White House.
Face of Australia: Jerry Grayson
Former helicopter pilot Jerry Grayson has done things most people only dream about.
By the time he was 25, he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. He flew over the burning oilfields of Kuwait with German film director Werner Herzog. He helped film the Olympic Games, an IMAX movie, the James Bond movie A View To A Kill, Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, and a Rolling Stones concert. Read on