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Angira BharadwajFederal Political Reporter

Angira Bharadwaj is the Federal Political Reporter for the Daily Telegraph based in the Canberra Press Gallery. Prior to that she worked as a State Political Reporter in the NSW Press Gallery. Angira has been at the masthead since 2017 and worked across politics, general news, health, features, lifestyle and entertainment.

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Pictured at her home in Kings Langley is Lori Phegan.Lori had breast cancer and was treated at Westmead Hospital. Her life-saving treatment and care she received from nurses encouraged her to become a nurse herself and help others.Picture: Richard Dobson

How surviving cancer enabled one woman to live her dream

A brush with breast cancer last year pushed Lori Phegan to pursue the dream of becoming a nurse at 47. READ HER STORY.

NSW Coronavirus News

Westfield Parramatta coming back to life as people spend their Sunday at the shops. Picture: Jonathan Ng

New Western Sydney venues put on alert: NSW COVID cases rise

A spate of popular dining, shopping and fitness venues across Sydney’s south west have been put on alert after three new community transmission cases of COVID-19 were detected in NSW.

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Home and Away actor Emily Weir pictured at Channel 7 studios in Eveleigh after talking to JMo about mental health, giving up alcohol and fame. Picture: Toby Zerna

Home and Away star: ‘Alcohol was my poison’

Actress Emily Weir has confessed that before landing her dream role on Home And Away, she was a heavy drinker and now attends Alcoholics Anonymous. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

NSW

Hazardous food, unclean surfaces: NSW cafes that copped fines

A lengthy list of eateries across NSW have come under fire for failing to meet food safety and quality standards, with Sydney’s west and southwest copping the most fines. SEE THE FULL LIST HERE

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Ayda Yassine of Ayda Actyve for a story about the exercise gap in NSW where exercise rates have remained stagnant among lower income earners. Picture: Dylan Robinson

How the rich are benefiting from unfair NSW fitness gap

NSW’s most well off individuals are exercising for about 40 minutes longer per week than those in low socio-economic circumstances and experts say this growing fitness gap needs urgent attention.

NSW

Local COVID case among three NSW infections

NSW has recorded three new coronavirus cases including two in hotel quarantine and one locally-acquired case while technical dramas have marred the reopening of the Queensland border.

NSW

Former NRL player and champion boxer Joe Williams survived a suicide attempt age 28.

‘Voice in my head told me to end my life’: Ex-NRL player

Nine years ago a struggling Joe Williams attempted to take his life. Now a new national suicide monitoring system is hoping others don’t fall into the same dark place as the former NRL star.

NSW

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 23, 2020: Virgin Planes seen at Terminal 2 in the Sydney Domestic Airport in Sydney, Australia, on SEPTEMBER 23 2020. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard

NZ travel bubble back on cards as NSW again records no COVID cases

NSW has recorded a second straight day without a new virus case as Gladys Berejiklian reveals she is ‘open’ to allowing travel to and from NZ. LATEST COVID-19 NEWS HERE

NSW

Paramedics are assessing three people following a car and truck crash in the Mary Valley.

Girl, 4, and woman, 70, killed in head-on collision

A horror head-on collision between a four-wheel-drive towing a camper trailer and a sedan on the Northern Tablelands has left a young child and an elderly woman dead and five other people in hospital.

EXCLUSIVENSW

Country rock legend Jade Hurley who had arthiritis and couldn't play the piano. He is now much better thanks to a breakthrough ingredient, pictured at his studio in Blakehurst. Picture: Jonathan Ng

‘Miracle’ drug that saved country star Jade Hurley’s career

There was a time when country rock legend Jade Hurley could barely touch the piano without agonising pain in his hands. But an over-the-counter drug has helped the star, and thousands like him, who suffer from arthritis.

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