In the meantime why don't you keep a tab on the regional pages for news updates throughout the day.

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8:50am: Astley Cup brawlers suspended

Players from the Dubbo College senior campus and Orange High School rugby league teams have been suspended for their involvement in the fight during the second half of their Astley Cup match on Thursday.

8:45am: FIFA WORLD CUP 

8:40am: It's that time of the morning - BIRTHDAY SHOUT-OUT!

Is it your birthday today? HAPPY BIRTHDAY IF IT IS!

Did you know that you share this glory day with High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale and Hollywood's bad girl Lindsay Lohan?

8:35am: There's no doubt we all use Google daily. 

I know I'm a chronic celebrity 'googler'. And perhaps the odd animal here and there. But have you ever put them together? 

Check out what the good people at Buzzfeed have put together - it's sure to wipe away those mid-week blues. 

27 Things Celebrities Look Like According To Google

8:30am: 

8:25am: Rolf Harris is cracking the news headlines, but all for the wrong reasons. 

Tracey Spicer writes in the SMH that Rolf Harris not the only 'octopus' in entertainment

8:20am: Do we have any seasonal travellers or aspiring globe trotters around here? 

Are new airliners the cure for jetlag?

8:15am: Check out what's making the front pages in the region

8:10am: There's no point denying it - whether you're in the closet or not - Game of Thrones has taken over your life. 

Forget winter, a long wait is coming for Game of Thrones fans.

An exhibition about the popular television show opened on Tuesday at the MCA and the crowds converged like wildlings to the Wall.

But excitement faded once it became clear there was up to a six-hour wait to get inside on the opening day.

8:00am: And now for the man of the hour - Nick Kyrgios knocks Rafael Nadal out of Wimbledon in four sets

Astonishing. Remarkable. Extraordinary. Insert your own superlative. Nick Kyrgios, aged 19, and ranked 144th, has reached the Wimbledon quarter finals by stunning world No.1 Rafael Nadal in four sets on centre court in one of the great grand slam upsets. 

The first man in a decade to reach the last eight here on debut served out the match to love, 7-6 (7-5), 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 with a 37th ace in two minutes short of two hours.

7:55am: If you're just sitting down to breakfast why not have a squizz at our sports gallery from the weekend?

7:50am: New rules for new financial year

Is the end of the financial year stressing you out? Never fear we have got you sorted with this quick and easy guide to get you into the 2014/2015 mode. 

7:40am: Vehicle rolls over on Mitchell Highway, Dubbo driver escapes serious injury 

A DUBBO man has escaped with bumps and bruises after he lost control of his four-wheel-drive and it rolled over on the Mitchell Highway near Neurea on Tuesday afternoon.

7:35am: And now for our national headlines

Rolf Harris has been found guilty on 12 charges of indecent assault against four girls, from 1968 to 1986.

Mr Justice Sweeney said a jail term was “uppermost in the court’s mind” but he would hear evidence as to Harris’ state of health before sentencing on Friday.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says Labor played politics too aggressively against Malcolm Turnbull as opposition leader, helping to destroy his leadership in 2009 and ruin a carbon trading consensus.

The Liberal senator, whose dissenting report the federal government is relying on to hose down calls for a royal commission on Commonwealth Bank, did not turn up to a crucial hearing at which victims of the bank's financial planning scandal gave evidence.

Having a mental illness should not be an ''automatic entry'' to a lifetime of welfare support Beyondblue chairman Jeff Kennett has said, embracing a federal government proposal to shift more people with mental illness into work

7:20am: Have a look at what's making news in the region today: 

DUBBO: 

THE rollout of a waste levy into regional areas would leave Dubbo City Council with an added expense of $430,000 each year.

CONSTRUCTION on the $8.4 million Burrendong Dam safety upgrade has reached the half-way mark, according to State Water.

A MAN arrested over a home invasion that left a victim in a coma has engaged a barrister.

WOMEN in the Orana Region are being encouraged to attend a fire season preparation workshop run by the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Orana Team.

NARROMINE:

Check out the new gallery 'The week that was in the central west' 

7:00am: HELLO DUBBO AND HAPPY HUMP DAY! You are here with Laura McIntyre in Dubbo - we're now halfway through the working week and I don't know about you but I am certainly hanging out for Friday afternoon to roll around. 

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For your weather today we are looking at: 

Dubbo / Trangie / Nyngan: Mostly sunny. Reaching a top of 15 degrees in Dubbo, 14 degrees Trangie and 15 degrees in Nyngan

Bourke / Cobar: Partly cloudy. Patches of frost in the north early in the morning. Winds S/SW and light. A high of 17 in Bourke and 15 in Cobar today.