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Jake McCallumDeputy Chief of Staff

Jake McCallum is the Deputy Chief of Staff and an award-winning investigative journalist at The Daily Telegraph. He was previously the Evening Chief of Staff at The Saturday and Sunday Telegraph and NSW Hyperlocal Deputy Editor.

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Penrith
CAR AND TRUCK IN HIGH SPEED COLLISION ON MOTORWAY INTERCHANGE A 36-year-old man has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after the car he was driving collided with a truck on the Lighthouse Interchange in Western Sydney this afternoon. The man’s sedan had exited the M4 Motorway off-ramp westbound when it collided with a truck on the M7. He was trapped for a period, with NSW Fire & Rescue working to free him. CareFlight’s rapid response rescue helicopter was tasked to the accident at 3.29pm, landing in a clearing opposite the motorway to drop off the critical care medical team. NSW Ambulance paramedics were also on scene treating the man. Source: CareFlight

Budget’s cash splash for Sydney’s west

UPGRADING infrastructure is one of the State Government’s top missions as part of the 2018 Budget, with major investments to revitalizing arterial roads and establishing world class hospital facilities in Sydney’s West.

The Express
The promised

$1.9b for Sydney Metro South West

ALMOST $2 billion will go towards continuing work on the Sydney Metro South West project, revealed in the State Budget today. There are several major infrastructure investments across the region, with a major focus on metro services and arterial road upgrades.

Hills Shire
A generic image of Kellyville Public School in Kellyville, Sydney, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett)

Questions raised over aircon plan

LUCK of the draw is all it will take for thousands of students to be able to beat the heat in airconditioned classrooms across the Hills this summer — or continue to swelter.

Hills Shire
Former Hills Councillor Raymond Harty who plead guilty to fraud charges and is being sentenced at Burwood Court. Photographed 14th June 2018. AAP Image/Matthew Vasilescu

Former councillor convicted of fraud

BREAKING: Disgraced former Hills Shire councillor Raymond Harty has been sentenced today to a 12-month suspended sentence after being convicted of fraud charges relating to more than $220,000 worth of payments.

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