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Ava Benny-MorrisonThe Sunday Telegraph Crime Reporter

Ava Benny-Morrison is a crime reporter for The Sunday Telegraph. She joined the team in September 2017 after covering crime and courts for several years in NSW and Queensland.

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Members of the Byron Bay Public School choir who are off to the Opera House.

Opera House calls to school choir

STUDENTS from Byron Bay Public School have won the opportunity to sing in the country’s most famous concert arena.

Lismore

Judge's choice: Joseph Leven, of the Northern Co-operative Meat Company, with the Grand Champion Beef Week carcase, entered by NSW Central Coast producers Val and Len Tomkins. . Picture: Jay Cronan

Hoof-to-hook win for second time

CASINO’S annual Beef Week celebrations concluded yesterday with a hoof-to-hook competition won for the second time by a Central Coast couple.

Lismore

OFF THE PLANET: Triple J Unearthed High finalists and Alstonville High Year 12 students (from left) Sam Speck, Ben Hannam, Cameron Holdstock and Daniel Muszynski, of the band Glass Towers.

Alstonville band unearthed

AN ALSTONVILLE band is anxiously waiting to hear if it will be shot to stardom by winning one of Australia’s most notable music competitions.

Lismore

Top trio: Alison Cleaver (right) pictured at the District 69 Toastmasters international speech competition in Caloundra with Jock Elliot who came third, and the winner, Pushpa Vida.

Toastmaster the talk of the town

A GOONELLABAH woman has perfected the art of speaking to become one of the best Toastmaster speakers in the country.

Lismore

Dan Hannaford looking like star material.

Ballina musician on way to stardom

A BALLINA musician has managed to catch the eye of Madonna’s career guru, win a prestigious music industry award, and launch a new EP – all in six months.

Lismore

ON THE RISE: Grace Moran, of Newrybar.Forever Young Management

Amazing Grace in swimwear calendar

NEWRYBAR’S Grace Moran is set to feature in a sexy new swimwear calendar, fostering her thrist for modelling stardom.

Lismore

Goonellabah Public School dancers (rear) Meg Harding and Phoebe Rowlandson and (front) Indigo Grame and Jennifer D'Arantes, all 11, practising their performance of Riverboat. Picture: Cathy Adams

Student dancers’ perfect rhythm

HUNDREDS of dancing and prancing students will sashay into Lismore next week for the 25th anniversary of the Far North Coast Dance Festival.

Lismore

International player returns to roots

FROM rubbing shoulders with international presidents to advising the United Nations on foreign policy, a former Lismore man returned to the region yesterday.

Business

ACE teacher Gillian Jones with pattern blocks currently used in dress-making. However fashion designer Lois Hennes has introduced a new concept in clothing design based on fitting a woman’s shape, not her size. . Picture: Cathy Adams

Fashion now fits shape, not size

THERE is a new concept in fashion design which has been created right here on the Northern Rivers – and it’s not catering to Twiggy-like models.

Lismore

Anger over Red Cross office move

RED Cross volunteers are devastated and disgusted at the decision to relocate the Lismore Red Cross regional office to Kempsey.

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