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Derrick Krusche is a journalist for The Daily Telegraph in Sydney. Get in touch at derrick.krusche@news.com.au

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Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from Sydney’s eastern suburbs.Charlotte Cook, aged 16, was last seen at her home in Beresford Road, Bellevue Hill, about 11:00pm on Thursday 24 December 2022.When she failed to return home, officers attached to Eastern Suburbs Police Area Command were notified and commenced inquiries to locate her.Family and police hold concerns for Charlotte due to her age and her disappearance being out of character, especially on Christmas Day. She is not in possession of her mobile phone nor believed to have access to money.

Teen girl found after Christmas Eve disappearance

16-year-old Charlotte Cook has now been located, following a public appeal after she went missing from Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

UpdatedPolice & Courts

Sam Burgess has returned to the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Sam Burgess denies drug use after roadside test arrest

Former Rabbitohs star Sam Burgess has been arrested after allegedly failing a roadside drug test — but he denies he took any illicit substances.

Police & Courts

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 21: Latrell Mitchell of the Rabbitohs speaks to the media during a South Sydney Rabbitohs NRL media opportunity at The Venue on December 21, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne/Getty Images)

Channel 9 apologises to Latrell Mitchell over Gaddie gaffe

Channel 9 has apologised to Latrell Mitchell after vision of the NRL star was accidentally played when an alleged murder was being discussed during Sydney’s nightly news bulletin.

VIDEOPolice & Courts

Screen grabs of the Tik Tok videoshowing the man falling to the ground after being struck as other officers arrive, and of the officer armed with the

Watch: Cop repeatedly hits man with baton during arrest

Wild video footage has emerged of a police officer in a motorcycle helmet repeatedly striking a man with a baton during an arrest in Sydney’s west.

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Sydney storm on Monday night. Picture: Facebook

Lightning storm delays Sydney fire effort

A lightning storm that hit Sydney overnight forced fire fighters to pause their efforts to extinguish a blaze on the lower North Shore. It also saw Jack Johnson’s Opera House concert cancelled.

NSW

DAILY TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 29. Ballet dancers Sharni Spencer and Callum Linnane from Romeo and Juliet which is opening at the Sydney Opera House on Thursday. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Star ballerina reveals trickiest moment in demanding ballet

Romeo and Juliet opens at the Opera House on Thursday night. Here’s what to expect.

ExclusivePolice & Courts

Pictured: Ahmed Kassem, The Daily Telegraph can reveal two NSW Police officers pulled over 22-year-old Ahmed Kassem and found plastic bags containing white powder in his car before he suddenly ran away on Old Kent Rd in Greenacre. The two officers ran after Kassem but could not find him and returned to his car – only to find a whopping 561g of cocaine, worth up to $168,000, had been left sitting there for four whole minutes for anyone walking past to take in an area known for drug activity.

Dealer’s $170k cocaine cache abandoned on Sydney street

Close to $170,000 worth of cocaine was left ripe for the taking in an unattended car in an area notorious for drug deals when a man fled from police in Sydney’s west.

Police & Courts

Site of suspected road rage stabbing on Hume Highway. Picture: Google Maps

Man stabbed in suspected Sydney road rage incident

A man is undergoing surgery tonight after being stabbed in what police believe to be a road rage incident on the Hume Highway.

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Cranbrook principal could appoint members to school council

Parents fume over Cranbrook head choosing school councillors

Parents at elite Sydney school Cranbrook say allowing the headmaster to help choose some members of its new school council would make a mockery of its governance.

InteractiveEducation

Inside the civil war tearing elite Sydney school apart

A battle is raging for the city’s billionaires, corporate titans and moneyed elite to control the 104-year-old governing board of a prestigious eastern suburbs school. See who’s who in the Cranbrook zoo – and whose side they’re on.

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