Friday, February 12, 2016

Pregnancy-tested-in-calf Angus heifers sell to a top of $2280 at ... and other top stories.

  • Pregnancy-tested-in-calf Angus heifers sell to a top of $2280 at ...

    JOINED females sold to a whopping top of $2280 at the Ballarat female cattle sale today. Offered by Langi Kal Kal Angus at Langi Kal Kal, the 10 heifers were pregnancy-tested-in-calf to Innesdale bulls, to commence calving in March.Sarah Fahey, of Tyres in Gippsland, signed the cheque, selecting the heifers for their quiet temperament and proven reputation.“Rather than keep heifers on, which we used to do, we decided to try PTIC females for the first time, because the weaner heifers are making g..
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  • V/Line crisis: Tracks on $3.65b Regional Rail Link to be torn up this ...

    V/Line crisis: Tracks on $3.65b Regional Rail Link to be torn up this ...
    Eight hundred metres of track between Southern Cross and North Melbourne stations needs to be replaced. Photo: Chris Hopkins Hundreds of metres of railway track laid just two years ago as part of the most expensive public transport project in Victoria's history will be ripped up and replaced over the weekend because it is damaged and has damaged the wheels of V/Line trains.The track replacement work will require the shutdown of part of the $3.65 billion Regio..
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  • State of the Nation | Saturday, February 13, 2016

    State of the Nation | Saturday, February 13, 2016
    Your morning news headlines from across regional Australia and beyond. State of the nationNeed a national news snapshot first thing? Well, we have you covered. A crime scene was established west of Bendigo. Picture: The Bendigo Advertiser► BENDIGO, VIC: The people who shared a home with Bendigo mother Samantha Kelly and cared for her young children after she vanished more than three weeks ago have been charged over her murder. Continue reading► NEWCASTLE, NSW: Ken and Helen McKay ..
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  • Hundreds of metres of regional train track in Victoria replaced after ...

    Hundreds of metres of regional train track in Victoria replaced after VLocity wheel wear problem Updated February 13, 2016 12:28:17 Hundreds of metres of V/Line train tracks have been replaced overnight as part of a plan to fix a train wheel wear problem that severely disrupted regional rail services across Victoria.Train wheels which were wearing at a rapid rate, along with a separate boom gate fault, had disrupted rail services since mid-January.Frustrated passengers ..
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  • A young man gone too soon

    A young man gone too soon
    Friend to all: Ford Guthrie was renowned for always engaging with people. Photo: Supplied Seventeen-year-old Ford Guthrie died on Australia Day when a car in which he was a passenger hit a tree on a red-dirt road a few kilometres from his family property, Thermopylae, outside Moyston in western Victoria. I never met Ford although I saw him a couple of times at the Moyston Willaura Football Club. Last year, Ford was captain of the Pumas' under 16-and-a-half te..
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  • Who are you? The question that enslaves us all

    Members of the Victorian Trade Union Choir. Photo: Supplied "Who are you?" He rocked, feet feeling for grip on the floor of the moving train, and steadied himself on a nearby backrest. He was 20-something, tall, dark and soaked to the gills. We were the Victorian Trade Union Choir, travelling back to Melbourne after a media call for a gig in Ballarat. No media had showed, and the mood in the carriage was tired and resigned.  Pale faces stared back when we looked out into the inky night, and ..
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  • How Nene King's life with two 'lovely' men ended in bitter court battle

    How Nene King's life with two 'lovely' men ended in bitter court battle
    Nene King in 1999 when she was the editor of Woman's Day magazine. Photo: Brendan Esposito Having lost her husband to a shark attack, former magazine queen Nene King — who used to sleep with the latest copy of Woman's Day under her pillow — turned her back on the glamorous world of publishing and became a drug addict.The doyenne of women's magazines could see nothing more to live for after losing the love of her life, third husband Pat Bowring. ..
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  • The Jessica Stuart Few Announce Australian Tour

    The Jessica Stuart Few Announce Australian Tour
    tour > News The Jessica Stuart Few Announce Australian Tour Feb 12th 2016 | 6:55pm | Staff Writer Tweet Toronto folk-jazz outfit The Jessica Stuart Few have announced an Australian tour that will kick off in little under a month. The trio return to our shores in March to promoter their latest record, The Passage, and have confirmed 14 dates that kick off in Ballarat on Wednesday 9 March with a house concert before hitting clubs around the rest of the country. For all dates and ticketing in..
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  • Car radio still essential for 8 out of 10 drivers

    Details Category: What's New Published on Saturday, 13 February 2016 11:00 Europes Radiocentre and Radio Player, confirmed radio is here to stay after new research shows 8 out of 10 Europe drivers wouldn’t consider buying a car without radio.   The survey was carried out on drivers across UK, France and Germany, who had bought one of the top 20 European car brands within the last 3 years, ensuring a fair comparison between radio and alternative audio options (like music streaming and smartph..
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  • Media Watch Dog: Banging The (loaded) Drum on the ABC

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Melton confident its Ballarat Football League list is as strong as it ... .George Pell will not return to Australia to testify at Royal Commisssion .
Syndicate of Victorian farmers pays $30m for properties near Ballarat .Ballarat breakfast report | Saturday, February 6, 2016 .

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