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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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Elizabeth Casmir president of Bangalow Quilters Incorporated prepares for the quilt show at the All Souls Anglican Church Hall in Bangalow today and tomorrow.

Quilt show returns in style

A LOCAL 22-year-old quilting show has been revived after a 10-year break and a once uncertain future.

Lismore

New fire truck for Lismore

THE Lismore fire station just got a big, red, shiny $500,000 dollar gift. A brand new class-three fire truck was delivered to the station yesterday.

Lismore

Ballina resident and National Party member Neil Saines (left) with Andrew Stoner in Ballina yesterday during a visit by the leader of the National Party and several shadow ministers. . Picture: Doug Eaton

Odds are, State Labor shown door

CENTREBET currently has the Coalition at $1.50 and Labor at $5 to win the next State election.

Lismore

Cr Lynette Zito, of Sextonville, received the Australian Defence Medal yesterday for her contributions to the Women’s Royal Australian Navy Service. . Picture: Jacklyn Wagner

Zito receives Aust Defence Medal

NOT many council members can say they have flown in a Nimrod plane or befriended wounded Vietnam War troops in Singapore. But Lynette Zito has.

Lismore

John Mills with his pumpkin in happier times, before the formidable fruit collapsed. . Picture: DAVID NIELSEN

Pumpkin dreams now squashed

UP UNTIL Tuesday night, one giant Brunswick Heads pumpkin had survived the sweltering summer heat, the recent downpours and was off to the Royal Easter Show.

Lismore

Cara Feain-Ryan (left),11, Harrison Leslie,11, Hannah Isaac,12 and Angus Cannon,11, of St Joseph’s School at Alstonville take part at the Caritas Millennium Development Goals and You Exhibition at Lismore Workers Club. . Picture: Jacklyn Wagner

Exhibition is Blueprint for World

IMAGES of malnourished children, suffering babies and poverty eradication goals were plastered on the walls of the Lismore Workers Club yesterday.

Lismore

Tait Jenkins, 13, of Trinity Catholic College, Nathaniel Crane, 15, and Brodie Groth, 14, of St Johns College Woodlawn, and Tobin Davitt, 17, from Kadina High, were among the young minds competing in Round 1 of the Northern Rivers Inter-School Teams Championship. . Picture: David Nielsen

Grandmasters of the future

KINGS, queens, pawns and castles dominated the minds of students and filled the learning centre at St Johns Woodlawn on Tuesday.

Lismore

A keen cyclist makes his way through flooding at Byron Bay after the town copped a massive morning shower. Picture: Greg Cromwell

Byron CBD goes under water

PARTS of the Byron Bay CBD went under water on Tuesday as the area received 15 times more rain than surrounding areas in the space of a few hours.

Lismore

Sculpturing with flowers

MORE than 200 people gave their hands to the Japanese art of minimalist flower arranging at the Lismore Workers Club on Monday.

Lismore

Healthy aging class a hit

ACCORDING to Southern Cross University student Katy Lawryk, you are never too old to get active.

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