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Cancer patient’s rings stolen at Dubbo in new blow: A mother, gravely ill with cancer, had precious rings stolen while on a Christmas visit to Dubbo.
The 38-year-old mum had wished to leave the treasured items to her two young girls.
The woman’s wedding and engagement rings were snatched from her cabin on Christmas Eve as she spent time with her family, including her three children aged 10, seven and almost three years respectively.
The next day her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to hospital.
Dubbo’s drive-in theatre to make a comeback: The vision of a Dubbo Youth Council member came to life through a partnership with Dubbo Regional Council which saw the projector flicked on at the Westview Drive-In Theatre for the first time since 1984.
Council youth development officer Jason Yelverton said applications were made to open the drive-in theatre for one weekend in April 2017 as part of the National Youth Week Program.
The Westview Drive-In was officially opened October 8, 1970 featuring the film Kelly’s Heroes starring Clint Eastwood, and was the largest drive-in in country NSW with a capacity of 550 cars, state-of-the-art projectors and window-hanging speakers and was a popular haunt for locals.
Lateesha Nolan's daughter writes on Facebook 'I love you mummy': The Facebook community reached out to a daughter of Lateesha Nolan, whose bones were found by police alongside the Macquarie River at Dubbo.
The Daily Liberal first reported that DNA tests had confirmed bones and fragments found near Butlers Falls belonged to the young mother, murdered in 2005 by her cousin Malcolm Naden.
In a heart-wrenching post on Facebook Kayla said: “I love you mummy.”
“I know you didn't leave me on purpose” and “we can lay you to rest now”, the teenager told her late mother.
Gilgandra residents evacuated from Wrigley Street homes: Police investigations are continuing after residents of a Gilgandra Street were evacuated from their homes on Tuesday night.
Orana Local Area Command Inspector Jason Pietruszka said police “had cause to evacuate a number of residents from Wrigley Street” at 1am, and “a police operation was conducted”.
A 47-year-old man was taken into police custody and taken to hospital by NSW Ambulance paramedics for assessment.
No one was injured in the incident and the residents were allowed back into their properties.
Sticky beaks have no place during an emergency | OPINION: Fire and Rescue firefighter Paul Cavalier wrote an opinion piece about a storm that went through Mudgee, and the number of residents out and about looking at the damage rather than leaving it to the emergency services to do their job.
“I don't write about my job with Fire & Rescue NSW much, because, let's face it, we're paid to do a job, and generally the stuff we see and do is the business of those of us that went, and those involved… anyway, I'm going to break the silence.”
“Why, oh why, do people who don't even live anywhere near the site of fallen power poles feel the need to do an inspection? Why is it so hard to just go "oh yeah, you've closed the road. Fair enough,” he wrote.