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8.56: Some quick Sport News before we go! 

GOLF: An event described as the Twenty20 form of golf looks set to build on its reputation this year, with a large number of players expected to line up for Dubbo Golf Club's Bullseye Championship on Sunday, October 26. The par-54 event, which will see every hole a par-3, was the brainchild of Ivor Trapman and last year's event attracted a capacity field of 156 players. Read more here.

RACING: Dubbo Turf Club is no closer to appointing a new general manager, despite it being almost three months since the man formerly in the post, Mark Day, quit the post. An exhaustive search has seen applications for the position opened twice, however new club chairman Michael Edwards said he and the board were determined to hire the right candidate. Edwards assumed his role less than a month ago after the entire board stood down at the club's annual general meeting last month and a new board was elected. Read more here.

8.53: Taking a look at entertainment news: 

THE BLOCK: Ex-AFL star Darren Jolly has compared his and wife Deanne's disastrous auction result in The Block Glasshouse to losing a grand final. "I've been through winning grand finals and I've been through losing them and I kind of knew that feeling," he said. "Saturday night was very similar to losing a grand final." Read more here.

ALSO FROM THE BLOCK: The Block Glasshouse has ended with a victory for brothers Simon and Shannon, as well as scenes of tear-soaked catastrophe for many others in what may have been the biggest emotional downer in The Block finale history. Read the recap here.

THE BACHELOR: He spoke of having his heart broken after having to say goodbye to "many, many incredible women – all of them, now". But it seems poor old Bachelor Blake kept just one incredible bachelorette by his side as he takes "time to heal". New Idea says it has "confirmed" that Blake Garvey is dating former contestant, Louise Pillidge, who placed third on the show. Read more here.

HOME GROWN ACTRESS:  For an actor, even a Hollywood role can come at a price. And for 13-year-old Angourie Rice, there are a couple of clear drawbacks to landing a part in a blockbuster movie. She leaves on Wednesday to spend several months in the US, playing opposite Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling in a period crime drama. But she's going to miss playing in the school orchestra at the end-of-year performance. And, she says, with some regret, she had a really good ticket for a Katy Perry concert. Read more about Angourie here.

8.48: Taking a look at today's front pages from around the region. To check out all the the Fairfax front pages click here.

8.42: Is it your birthday today? If so HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We hope you have a wonderful day! 

You share your birthday with rapper Usher who turns 35, fashion designer Ralph Lauren, 74 and Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska who turns 24.

To celebrate here's Usher singing happy birthday to you! 

8.33: Here is our daily poll: 

8.27: Here's this week's traffic report: 

CASTLEREAGH HIGHWAY – 58 km to 60 km and 45 km to 46 km south of Mudgee. Intermittent lane closures. Delays up to 10 minutes can be expected. Working days from Monday to Friday, 7am to 6pm. 

GOLDEN HIGHWAY – Ballimore Creek 33.8 km east of Dubbo. One lane closed during work hours. Delays up to 10 minutes can be expected. Working days, Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm.

GOLDEN HIGHWAY –  Spicers Creek Bridge 41 km north east of Dubbo. One lane closed during working hours. Delays up to five minutes can be expected. Working days, Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm. 

MITCHELL HIGHWAY – North Enngonia, 104 km to 110 km north of Bourke. One lane during work hours. Delays up to 10 minutes can be expected. Working days, Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm. 

MITCHELL HIGHWAY – 31 km to 33 km west of Wellington. Intermittent lane closures. Delays up to five minutes can be expected. Working days from Monday to Saturday from 7am to 6pm.

NEWELL HIGHWAY –  2.2 km to 1.2 km south of Parkes.  One lane during work hours. Clarke Street closed at intersection with Newell Highway. Delays up to five minutes can be expected. Working days from Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm.

NEWELL HIGHWAY – 7 km north of Dubbo. Intermittent lane closures. Delays up to five minutes can be expected. Working days from Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm. 

OXLEY HIGHWAY – 15 km to 21 km west of Warren. Intermittent lane closures. Delays up to 10 minutes can be expected due to traffic lights. Working days from Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm. 

OXLEY HIGHWAY – 1 km to 3 km south of Warren. Intermittent lane closures. Delays up to 10 minutes can be expected due to traffic lights. Working days from Monday to Saturday, 7am to 6pm. 

Please obey all signs and proceed with care. 

8.15: It's the Narromine Dandy Cup this weekend. And to celebrate The Narromine News and Trangie Advocate is looking for Narromine's Best Dressed voted by YOU! To get the ideas rolling for this weekend, we've thrown together a FLASHBACK gallery. Check it out in the link below: 

This year's Dandy Cup is on Saturday with kick off from midday with a Garden Party, Fashions on the Field and of course the 7 Race Tab! Get your backside trackside at the Narromine Dandy Cup on Saturday! 

8.02: Check out this gorgeous video of the big dog playing hide and go seek with this little girl. Who said you shouldn't work with animals and children?

7.51: In an hour the local HSC students will be sitting their second English paper. 

Year 12 students across Dubbo have completed their first HSC exam and were relieved to get the opener out of the way.

After a break of three weeks since completing their school year, most students have been studying hard to prepare.

Yesterday morning every single student across the state sat down to the first English exam, which is standard regardless of which English level they studied. This morning students will be sitting the second English exam, which is split into standard and advanced papers.

Read more here. 

There is life after the HSC, believe it or not! 

With one English exam already out of the way and another to be sat this morning, students have already been hitting the books pretty hard.

They are out to achieve their best possible HSC and ATAR mark before moving on to other endeavours, either in further study or heading out into the world to find employment.

Both are daunting and the pressure on students to do well is immense.

Read more here.

Send your well wishes to our HSC students on the message wall. You can find it here.

7.44: We received some beautiful storm photos yesterday of the clouds rolling in around the region. Check them out below! And just to remind you we're in Spring (even if it doesn't feel like it today) check out our beautiful Spring gallery in the link below.

7.33: Taking a look at the national and international headlines: 

POLITICS: Sophie Mirabella would be welcomed back into Coalition ranks, her former colleagues say, but the controversial former Liberal MP would likely face a three-cornered contest against independent Cathy McGowan and a Nationals candidate. Read more here.

RUGBY UNION: The former Wallabies staffer embroiled in the Kurtley Beale controversy once tried to sue an employer for hundreds of thousands of dollars after she alleged she was bitten by a spider while getting coffee. Documents lodged with the Queensland Supreme Court state Di Patston had been working as an administrative officer with the then Maroochy Shire Council on Queensland's Sunshine Coast in 2003 when she alleged she was bitten by a spider on the upper thigh. Full story here.

ENVIRONMENTAL:  The potential damage wrought by coal seam gas mining in NSW is not well understood and "things could go wrong" with water quality, one of the state's top environmental bureaucrats has warned. NSW Environment Protection Authority chief executive Barry Buffier on Monday rejected suggestions by upper house Liberal MP Scot MacDonald that the organisation devoted too much effort to regulating coal seam gas, saying the industry posed a significant environmental issue. Read more here.

INTERNATIONAL CRIME: A young woman who stuffed her mother's murdered body into a suitcase then loaded it into a Bali taxi was acting like a "robot" at the time and barely remembered what she had done, her lawyer has said. A reconstruction of the gruesome August 12 killing of Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62, was held on Monday at the murder scene inside room 317 of the luxury St Regis resort in Bali. Read more.

WAR AGAINST IS: The Islamic State group has made a fresh pitch to followers to carry out spontaneous "lone wolf" attacks against Australians and citizens of other "crusader nations". In the latest edition of its flagship magazine, Dabiq, the militant group urges supporters to get out of their houses and attack without hesitation "infidels" from countries supporting the military campaign in Iraq. Most significantly, it tells would-be jihadists to keep their plots small and their strategies simple, involving as few people as possible. Read more.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has escalated the war of words with Vladimir Putin, promising to "shirtfront" the Russian President when the pair meet at the G20 summit in Brisbane next month. Mr Abbott's vow to confront Mr Putin over the  loss of Australian lives in the MH7 Malaysian Airlines tragedy marks an escalation of tension between the two nations over the tragedy. Read more here.

Check out this video of last night's storm rolling in over Sydney.

7.25: Looking at regional headlines: 

BATHURST: It was the $2 million Mount Panorama resurfacing project that was meant to improve the Bathurst 1000. Instead it led to drivers sitting on the grid for an hour while crews repaired a patch of new tarmac at turn two that had broken up, causing a number of accidents. One driver described the loose bits of asphalt as “marbles”. More here.

NEWCASTLE: A brief but intense storm darkened Hunter skies on Monday, but experts say the worst is to come. The vicious storm rolled into Newcastle during the afternoon. But SES crews in the Hunter had only a handful of jobs to contend with as the majority of damage was limited. An SES spokeswoman said crews were called to 10 jobs throughout the Hunter for mostly leaky roofs. Read more.

ORANGE received almost half its average rainfall for the month when violent storms hit the city on Monday. Orange Airport recorded 40 millimetres between 5am and 4.30pm, almost half the monthly average of 83mm. From 5am to 9am 15mm was recorded, with a further 25mm recorded between 9am and 4.30pm.Read more here.

BATHURST: After a morning in the dark, power was restored to homes in the West Bathurst area shortly after 10am. Essential Energy regional manager South Eastern, Phillip Green, said a suspected lightning strike caused a fault on the high voltage electricity network. Read more here.

BATHURST: The rain came, the lights went out, and there were two car accidents. It was just another post-race exodus from Bathurst. With 54,278 people at the track for the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 on Sunday – and 195,261 across the four day event – traffic was always going to be slow in all directions as people began the journey home. Read more here.

7.12: Taking a look at the local news:

DUBBO: Helping low-income recipients to avoid crippling, high-interest loans that were difficult to pay off is an important way to break the poverty cycle. That was the message at a financial services expo held in Dubbo yesterday to mark the start of anti-poverty week. The event aimed to boost understanding of microfinance services available in the local area and demonstrate how those programs could help build financial resilience and wellbeing and reduce poverty and hardship.Read more here.

DUBBO: Most people know Alice in Wonderland, but St John's Primary will soon bring the story to life in a new, magical way. After two terms of rehearsing, the school will be performing Alice the Musical on Wednesday October 22 and Thursday October 23. Creative director and producer Maggie Dunn said all 400 students were in the musical, including 26 as major and minor leads. Read more here.

BOURKE: Bourke cotton property Darling Farms has been sold by the Buster family and will be taken over by a Moree-based company after an agreement has been reached for an undisclosed sum. The 14,676 hectare property has been on the market for several months and the owners were in negotiations with three parties, before making their decision. It was estimated Darling Farms would be worth $45 million and while a confidentiality agreement has been signed by the parties, Darling Farms managing director and part-owner Ian Cole said the family was happy with the price. Read more here. 

NARROMINE: A group was fined thousands of dollars after they were found illegally fishing on the Macquarie River. Department of Primary Industries acting director fisheries compliance Tony Andrews said fisheries officers conducted a targeted operation on the Macquarie River, downstream of Narromine. Read more here.

WESTERN NSW: NEW figures from the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) South Eastern Section indicate a sharp rise in breast cancer referrals. The figures were released to coincide with National Breast Cancer Awareness month. RFDS general manager health services Linda Cutler said breast cancer was the most commonly-diagnosed cancer among women in Australia, with one in eight set to develop it during their lifetimes, 30 per cent of them being women who lived outside major cities. Read more here. 

DUBBO: An afternoon of darts, sausages and raffles on Sunday has raised more than $1000 for children's hospice Bear Cottage. A darts competition was organised by Julie Freeman at Macquarie Alarm Services to fundraise for Bear Cottage after they helped a Dubbo family. Ms Freeman said the organisation knew they wanted to hold a fundraiser and after throwing some ideas around, decided a darts challenge would be a fun way to raise money. Read more here.

7am: Good morning Grillers, welcome to your Tuesday morning Grill.

You're here with Grace from Narromine. If you'd like to add anything to our Grill please email me at grace.ryan@fairfaxmedia.com.au. I'll take anything from opinions, to events, to birthdays.

Did you get caught up in the weather yesterday? Did you happen to take a photo of it? Email lpinkerton@fairfaxmedia.com.au your weather shots! 

DUBBO / TRANGIE / NYNGAN: will see showers with a 90 per cent chance of 1-5 mil. 22km/h West South Westerly winds in the morning that a due to pick up throughout the day. Dubbo and Nyngan will get to 16 and Trangie will get to 18. 

COBAR: will have late showers reaching a top of 15 degrees. There is an 80 per cent chance of less than 1 mil of rain. South Westerly Winds will reach a top of 30 km/h all day.

BOURKE: has cloud increasing and will get to 20 degrees. There is a 10 per cent chance of getting less than a mil. 36km/h winds in the afternoon in  a South Westerly direction.