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8.53: Making sport news this morning:
RUGBY UNION: For the first time in history, Dubbo's two rugby clubs will head into battle for the Mark Melville Cup as premiers. Blowes Clothing Cup champions Dubbo Kangaroos and GrainCorp Cup premiers Dubbo Rhinos will lock horns on Saturday, October 18 in a curtain-raiser for the National Rugby Championship match between NSW Country and Perth at Caltex Park. Read more here.
RACING: Former New Zealand mare Holm Three added her name to the list of Canola Cup winners when she demolished a handy field of pacers to take out the feature event at Eugowra yesterday. The $20,000 final, run over 2100m, brought together some impressive pacers but it was the David Hewitt-trained four-year-old that led from start to finish to record one of the most dominant wins in the race's history. Read more here.
CRICKET: Macquarie veteran Jason Green is hoping it will not take another mammoth year from him with the bat for the Blues to be competitive when the Whitney Cup season kicks off this Saturday. The 2013-14 grand finalists have a new captain and some new cattle in their top grade squad this season, and while Green will once again pull on a baggy blue cap he hopes some of the club's younger brigade will rise under rookie skipper Kieran Brien. Read more here.
8.46: Making entertainment news this morning:
An exuberant South Sydney Rabbitohs fan has dropped his pants live on national television. The Channel Nine news bulletin at 6pm crossed live to reporter Tom Steinfort outside the Woolpack Hotel in Redfern - who was oblivious to the scene unfolding behind him. As Steinfort reported from in front of a group of cheering fans, one man in a Rabbitohs jersey dropped first his trousers and then his underwear to dance for the camera during the live cross.
Could George Clooney become the next president of the United States? The likelihood that the ER star will make the leap from the red carpet to the White House has doubled since he married human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, according to bookmakers. British betting house William Hill originally had 200-to-one odds on the actor becoming the next US President. However, following the couple's star-studded nuptials in Venice, those odds have now shortened to 100-to-one. Read more here.
Party Tricks gives Asher Keddie and Rodger Corser a chance to shine. Yes, there's sizzle. Part of the considerable appeal of the six-part romantic comedy and political drama Party Tricks, which premiered on Monday, is seeing the sparks fly between its stars, Asher Keddie and Rodger Corser. There was an indication of how good this pair can be onscreen together during the second season of the police series, Rush, when Keddie appeared in a seven-episode arc as spirited journalist Jacinta Burns who has a fling with Corser's straight-arrow cop, Lawson Blake. Read more here.
8.39: Wellington is mourning the loss of footballer Chris Thompson.
Thompson, 31, died in Royal North Shore Hospital on Friday night after succumbing to severe injuries suffered in a single vehicle accident near Geurie in late August.
THE wife of Chris Thompson has remembered her husband as a loyal man who lived for his family and friends. Yesterday Chrystal Thompson, who spent five weeks by her husband's side after the accident, said she is thankful for the support the family has received during their ordeal. Read more of what Chrystal had to say here.
Wellington rugby league players stood silently at Raymond Terrace at the NSW Aboriginal League knockout on Saturday to pay respect to their great mate and fellow Cowboy who passed away ‘too soon’ they said on Friday night. Team manager Roy AhSee of the Nanima Common Connection rugby league team said the death of Mr Thompson had cut through his side deeply and they remembered how fragile life was and football was just that, sport. Read more from the team here.
8.33: Is it your birthday today? If so HAPPY BIRTHDAY, we hope you have a wonderful day!
You share your birthday with Australian Idol and X-Factor creator Simon Cowell, Author of Schindler's Ark which then became Schindler's List, Aussie Thromas Keneally, Neighbours Actor Brian Mannix and Aussie Musician Tim Minchin.
To celebrate October 7, we've got a compilation of Simon Cowell's best insults. We're glad we're not on the receiving end of them!
8.22: Taking a look at today's front pages. To see all the Fairfax front pages today click here.
8.14: We're starting a new segment this morning titled Rural News. This will feature in every Tuesday morning Grill.
HENTY FIELD DAYS: Last month the 51st Henty Machinery Field Days lived up to its name as southern Australia’s single biggest outdoor event, when it recorded a record gate on its opening day. Held from Tuesday, September 23 until Thursday, September 25, the field days drew an estimated crowd of 60,000 to inspect the “agribusiness supermarket’’. More than 800 exhibitors on 1200 sites across 105ha experienced strong sales and enquiry as a result. Read more here.
FODDER SAFETY: In the lead up to National Hay Day later this month, the Australian Fodder Industry Association (AFIA) is encouraging everyone to share photos of safety in practice on social media. Held on Saturday, October 25, National Hay Safe Day the aim of the initiative is to get people talking about safety in the hay and silage industry. AFIA executive officer Darren Keating said “One of AFIA's key objectives is to ensure the fodder industry is a safe place to work,” he said. Read more here.
BEEF INDUSTRY EXCHANGE: Beef producers have headed to Armidale this week, to focus on how the industry can meet consumers taste for safe, high quality beef. Jointly hosted by NSW Farmers and the Cattle Council of Australia (CCA) the program featured a range of presentations from across the value chain. Presentations included the processing sector, meat eating quality research, the industries market outlook and a feature demonstration using data, technology and automation on farm. Read more here.
FOX BAITING: With foxes now occupying approximately 98 per cent of NSW, now more than ever producers are being encouraged to work with neighbours on control measures this spring. The total cost per year of foxes to Australia's environment and economy is estimated to cost $227.5 million. The cost of a baiting program conducted on a farm twice a year, including labour is approximately $800, making the return on investment from collaborative fox control highly valuable. Read more here.
INDUSTRIAL HEMP: Industrial hemp (iHemp) may have the potential to be the next big thing in the agricultural sector, but with all the hype, making it hard to separate fact from fiction. Farmers and landholders are will now have the opportunity to uncover those myths by attending the ihemp forum in Narromine next month. Read more here.
8.05: There has been a lot of media surrounding the Bachelor drama last week. Bachelor Blake Garvey proposed to winning Bachelorette Sam Frost. After the final it was revealed Blake had broken off the engagement. The Bachelor broke his silence last night on Ten's The Project. Check out what he had to say in the video below. Read more about what happened here.
7.58: Taking a closer look at today's front page:
A disqualified driver who allegedly drank five beers while on a high-speed police pursuit with an unrestrained six-year-old child in the back seat, told police he consumed the beers during the chase to “calm me down and stop me doing something stupid”.
Adam John Spackman, a 33-year-old Dubbo man, sat handcuffed and dishevelled in the dock at Orange Local Court yesterday as the charges against him were read out.
Spackman, who was represented by solicitor Andrew Rolfe, did not apply for bail and bail was refused.
Police were patrolling in the Northern Distributor Road area on Sunday afternoon just after 3pm when they spotted the Holden Commodore being driven west by Spackman who, police claim, overtook another vehicle on double lines.
- Fairfax Media
7.51: BREAKING NEWS COMING OUT OF ORANGE THIS MORNING
Two men were arrested by police on Monday night after a bomb was found in their car.
The men, aged 35 and 50, were travelling along Burrendong Way when they were stopped at 10.40pm on Monday by police who had received an anonymous tip-off.
The Canobolas Highway Patrol officers searched the car and found drugs and an explosive device.
7.49: Are you just sitting down to breakfast this morning? You might be having some muesli or perhaps a ham, cheese and tomato toastie? We have a great gallery to accompany your brekkie, check it out in the link below.
7.43: Making national and international news this morning:
NATIONAL: Governments, industry and the education sector should be "alarmed" by the growing numbers of students abandoning science and mathematics in their final years of high school, say the authors of a landmark report that found a continuing decline in the proportion of year 12 science and maths students over the past two decades. Read more here.
NATIONAL: Environment Minister Greg Hunt was given a thorough briefing about the effects of climate change on Australia's weather patterns three weeks before he told a BBC radio interview he had sourced information on bushfires and global warming from Wikipedia. Read more here.
NATIONAL: Defence Minister David Johnston says the government does not know how much Australia's military mission in Iraq will cost the budget bottom line, but the matter will be addressed in December's mid-year economic update. Read more here.
INTERNATIONAL: Australian special forces have been cleared to start work on the ground in Iraq, helping local forces as they face the grinding task of driving Islamic State fighters out of their stronghold towns and cities. Read more here.
INTERNATIONAL: This is the man who turned away from Islamic State. Now he's fearful that instead of recruiting him, they wish to kill him. Read more here.
INTERNATIONAL: As dawn broke and the Hong Kong government's ultimatum to pro-democracy demonstrators to vacate the streets passed, protesters said they had no intention of vacating the encampments that have paralysed major streets in the city centre until their demands are met. Read more here.
INTERNATIONAL: On a bright autumn Sunday in the heart of a city built around monuments to war, Barack Obama dedicated yet another - a memorial to America's disabled veterans. Read more here.
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7.38: Making news around regional Australia today:
ORANGE: AROUND 500 Electrolux workers have been told to take the day off after a "significant" chemical spill forced management to close the factory on Tuesday and possibly Wednesday. Read more here
ORANGE: A 29-year-old man who allegedly stole a can of drink from a Byng Street service station and was detained by staff until police arrived was granted bail in Orange Local Court on Monday. Read more here
BATHURST: A man caught driving by police for the second time while his licence was suspended, has had a warrant issued for his arrest. Matthew Joseph Shayne Hutchinson, 30, of Katandra Place in Kelso did not appear before magistrate Michael Allen in Bathurst Local Court last week, and the matter was dealt with in his absence. Read more here
TAMWORTH: A paraglider has died after a crash 40km from Tamworth. Read more here
WAGGA WAGGA: Sydney band urinate on Wagga pub.Read more here
ALBURY: High speed drag race appalls police. Read more here
SOUTH COAST: The Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter is searching an area around Jervis Bay for a possible missing person. Read more here
NEWCASTLE: The jury that convicted Kathleen Folbigg of killing her four children was ‘‘almost certainly misled’’ about the rarity of multiple sudden infant death syndrome cases in families, a submission seeking a judicial review of her case will say. Read more here
7.25: Sorry we're running slow this morning an electrical storm is playing with our power! Have you got the storm at your house? We'd love to see some pics if you do. Send them to lpinkerton@fairfaxmedia.com.au
7.15: Making local news this morning:
DUBBO: More than two months after his pet dogs went missing, Matt Nolan is yet to give up hope they may come home. He believes the pair may have been stolen after he returned home to his East Dubbo residence on August 1 to find his gate wide open and two dogs gone. Mr Nolan said Diesel, a seven-year-old dane mastiff cross, and Milo, a two-and-a-half-year-old Jack Russell fox terrier cross, were dearly missed by their family.
DUBBO: Local fitness group the Dubbo Deadlys have a renewed look on life after losing a collective 52 kilograms. Dubbo Deadlys, consisting of about 20 people, mostly women, exercised four days a week for 10 weeks as part of the NSW Knockout Health Challenge. The NSW Knockout Health Challenge is state-wide annual challenge initiated by Medicare Local.
CENTRAL WEST: Landscaping projects aimed at improving the critical habitat of threatened species can now be undertaken with funds being provided to the Catchment Action NSW program. The announcement will see Catchment Action NSW funds provided to Local Land Services throughout the state for improvements in biodiversity conservation, threatened species, native vegetation and Aboriginal cultural heritage. Locally, $2.34 million will be invested during the 2014-15 financial year through the Central West LLS.
WELLINGTON: The state member for Orange Andrew Gee is used to curve balls from opposition politicians but when it comes to throwing one of his own he certainly has no problem. The Orange MP threw an Akubra hat more than 50 feet (15 metres) to win the ChuckAkubra at Mumbil's Blackwattle Fair for a second time in three years. Organisers measured the throws by the old scale.
WESTERN NSW: Riding 754 kilometres in 24 hours is a challenging goal, but four friends are determined to complete the journey in an effort to raise awareness of depression. Paul Schroder, along with friends James O'Riley, Anthony Bishop and Matt Keele, will be starting the ride 11.30am at Broken Hill on November 1 and finishing 24 hours later at Dubbo.
DUBBO: Last school holidays Dubbo's petrol prices were among the most expensive in the state, but as the latest break comes to an end the city's prices have done an about-turn to rank in NSW's top 10. In the last week of June, Dubbo's average diesel price was the 10th-worst out of the NRMA's 54 locations monitored in the Bowser Buster. In the final week of September, Dubbo was ranked at the 11th-cheapest for diesel and sixth for unleaded.
DUBBO: One of the organisers of a country music festival in Sir Roden Cutler Park on Saturday has expressed his disappointment at the apathy of Dubbo people. Sir Roden Cutler Park Entertainment/ Event Development Committee of Garry Braithwaite and Jack Anderson organised the concert as part of a push for an amphitheatre in Sir Roden Cutler Park. A significant amount of time and effort was invested in organising country music artists from around the region to play but just 120 spectators came over the course of the day.
DUBBO: A footballer at Dubbo who lost his job when his licence was suspended has regained his right to drive ahead of a new employment opportunity. Ilisoni Vonomateiratu appeared at Dubbo Local Court on a charge of mid-range drink-driving. As a guilty plea was offered on his behalf, his solicitor told the court of Vonomateiratu's situation.
7am: Good morning, welcome to your Tuesday Grill.
You're with Grace from Narromine this morning.
If you have any thing you'd like to add to our grill, whether it's opinion, events or birthdays, let me know by emailing me at grace.ryan@fairfaxmedia.com.au
DUBBO / TRANGIE / NYNGAN: will have rain clearing. Dubbo will get to 27. Nyngan and Trangie will get to 28.
COBAR: will have a clearing shower, getting to a top of 26.
BOURKE: will be sunny reaching a top of 31.
This story was originally published as The Morning Grill: Child at risk during pursuit on the Narromine News website.