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Border ice dealer guilty
KYLE Reece Matthews reckoned he was off the “ice” when he began dealing in the drug.
But it was his use of methamphetamine that tipped off police that something wasn’t right.
They were doing a walk-through at Albury’s Astor Hotel on November 26 last year when they saw Matthews and another man playing the pokies.
Matthews, who was already known to police, was clearing “fidgeting” and was aggravated when spoken to by police, Albury Local Court heard on Monday.
Grand final holiday a contentious free kick
ONE of Wodonga's largest employers is the latest to slam the Victorian government's AFL grand final eve public holiday.
Wilson Transformer general manager Jon Retford will reluctantly give his 280 employees the day off in early October for an event more than three hours away in Melbourne.
"We manufacture and sell what we make and losing any production capacity is a big issue for us," he said.
"You never get it back."
Wangaratta Jazz Festival funding hope
WANGARATTA'S jazz festival has been provided with a glimmer of hope in being able to tap into future funding after a face-to-face meeting with federal Arts Minister George Brandis.
Festival chairman Paul Squires travelled to Canberra last week to meet with Mr Brandis after being concerned about the impact of revised funding guidelines on the jazz festival and other smaller community events and festivals.
Porter, Leitch to face tribunal
TWO Wangaratta Magpies players will front the tribunal on Wednesday night.
Midfielder Daine Porter was reported by field umpire Brendan Schutt in the fourth quarter for striking Corowa-Rutherglen’s Damien Wilson on Saturday.
Injury could spell the season over for Symes
YARRAWONGA has suffered a huge blow, with star ruckman Brandon Symes unlikely to return this season because of injury.
The former VFL ruckman landed awkwardly on his troublesome ankle in Saturday’s loss to North Albury at the J.C. Lowe Oval, playing no further part in the game after the second quarter incident.
Symes is on crutches and will get a clearer diagnosis when he visits the specialist, but with just two home-and-away games left before finals, his season could be over.
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A last-minute decision to take an overheard walk-way to dinner saved Australian rock star Jimmy Barnes and his family from Monday evening's huge blast in Bangkok. More here.
Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.
► TAMWORTH: A toddler has been killed and her baby brother has critical injuries after an horrific crash south of Tamworth. More here.
► MOUNT ISA: HUNDREDS of people gathered in Mount Isa at the weekend to celebrate the lives of Nyobi, 7, and River Hinder, 4, who died in a caravan explosion on July 28. More here.
► ALBURY-WODONGA: IAN Russell got home after a three-hour rescue and the first thing he did was write a letter. It wasn’t a letter to anybody in particular but they were words from the MICA paramedic’s heart, recounting the moment he helped rescue 14-year-old Mack Oswald from a cave at Mount Pilot on August 8. More here.
► LAUNCESTON: APPEARANCES can be deceiving – just ask Launceston man Shayne Thorpe. Looking at the 42-year-old, you would easily think that he was physically fine. But the single father is anything but after his life was impacted by an acquired brain injury. More here.
► BALLARAT: ARWYN Thomas is feeling pretty happy to be alive. The 90-year-old was revived, twice, after his daughter-in-law Renata Thomas performed CPR on him last Saturday afternoon. More here.
► BATHURST: AS Lee Rayner prepares to leave his family farm to make way for Bathurst’s second racetrack, he says his move will be of huge benefit to the city. The 69-year-old will pack up in a few weeks and leave the farm his family have owned for three generations. More here.
► PEAK HILL: Farmer Bryce Farlow is living proof that a NSW Health cardiac therapy initiative involving paramedics, nurses and cardiologists working together is a lifesaver for people in rural areas. More here.
► BINGARA: POLICE have dismantled two backyard drug labs and seized more than half-a-million-dollars’ worth of illegal drugs in Bingara, in one of the biggest busts in the North West. More here.
► MANDURAH: It’s a topic no one likes to talk about. But with one in three girls and one in six boys likely to be sexually abused before the age of 18, according to the Australian Institute of Criminology, it’s a subject nobody can ignore. More here.
► BENDIGO: THE use of Bendigo’s Anglican cathedral as a backdrop for videos promoting a far-right rally protesting Islam has been panned by the church’s dean. More here.
► NATIONAL: Yesterday was national RSPCA Cupcake Day - an annual fundraiser for the animal welfare agency. Check out pictures from the day here.
► Tony Abbott's handpicked royal commissioner into trade union corruption, Dyson Heydon, will rule on Friday on whether an application from unions to disqualify him, should it be made, has merit. More here.
► The high times ended for Ainslee Garnham sitting up in bed in his Southbank digs smoking ice in a crack pipe watching reruns of the 1990s US TV soap Melrose Place. More here.
► Mothers believe their daughters have a greater chance of getting a university degree than their sons, a new report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) says. More here.
► Thousands of people are getting unnecessary surgery and other potentially harmful treatments in Australian hospitals, and in some cases staff may be doing them to make more money, research suggests. More here.
► BANGKOK: A huge bomb that detonated at peak hour on Monday evening scattered body parts and debris over the area and created a two-metre crater. More here.
► WORLD: After years of debate, University of NSW climate researchers have resolved data issues that not only reveal those "hot spots" to be there – but they are in fact warming some 10 per cent faster than modelling has predicted. More here.
► KEROBOKAN: Bali nine drug mule Renae Lawrence's father hopes she will be home within four years after Indonesian prison authorities recommended another nine months be shaved off her sentence. More here.
► 1997: Patrick Swayze received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
With a whiteboard marker in place of a wand, Erin McIntee is putting Whyalla students under a spell.
The self-confessed Harry Potter fanatic and sports tragic joined Samaritan College Saint John's campus as the physical education coordinator at the start of the year.
Erin became interested in the idea of becoming a teacher because she has always enjoyed the magic of learning and wanted to help others to have the same schooling experience. Read more here.