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A thing of the past. When opening the birthday card her grandfather had given her, the granddaughter said: “Grandad’s given me a piece of paper for my birthday”. It was a cheque, and quite a large one.

Bobi, the world’s oldest dog passed away last week at age 31. Bobi lived his whole life in a rural Portuguese village. He was born in 1992 and in February this year, he became the oldest dog in the world, a record previously...

Australia’s favourite breakfast spread Vegemite celebrated its 100th anniversary yesterday, October 25. The spread was invented by Cyril P Callister who used the leftover brewer’s yeast from Carlton United Brewery to create the...

Notice something missing at the local Chinese restaurant? A big something – as you walk in and notice the absence of a curious clownfish and his colourful friends. When proprietors of the dining establishment were away for...

More than a third of the members of the NSW House of Assembly and Legislative Council had their entry into politics as elected representatives on their local councils. Fifty members have come from local government backgrounds,...

It’s reassuring to hear the Westpac Rescue Service helicopter overhead on its way to Narrabri Hospital, although it unfortunately signals a medical emergency of some kind. The service is ready for callouts 24 hours a day, seven...

All fair-minded cricket fans, that is, Australians, saw the stumping of English batsman Jonny Bairstow in the Lords Ashes game as legitimate and quite reasonable despite the harrumphing from the Lords’ Members stand. A witty...

Fire and Rescue NSW station at Inverell has just taken delivery of a new $530,000 bushfire tanker. The multi-purpose four-wheel-drive is one of 18 new firefighting appliances being deployed across the state by FRNSW, in line...

No one could know what the actual number is but the world apparently has 600 million domestic cats, of which an estimated 480 million are roaming free. Cats, whether urban or bush, and roaming free, are just as feral as the...