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Jake McCallumEvening Chief of Staff

Jake McCallum is the Evening Chief of Staff for the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph, and an investigative reporter. He was previously the NSW Hyperlocal Deputy Editor, managing community mastheads across Greater Sydney and NewsLocal’s State Political Editor based in NSW Parliament.

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Penrith

Unnatural selection

CHILDREN from a low socio-educational background are being sidelined from access to Penrith Selective High School while other students are reporting increased cases of mental health issues, self-harm and even suicide.

Hills Shire

Police rip apart a mazerati sports car during a raid at 41a Poole rd Kellyville . Pic John Grainger

Alleged Assyrian King gang member arrested

AN ALLEGED member of the Assyrian Kings gang has been arrested after police said they found chemicals “consistent” with a clandestine drug laboratory in a Kellyville home.

Hills Shire

Stardust Circus in Bathurst, February 1, 2018.

Animal rights group calls for circus ban

THE Animal Justice Party is calling on The Hills Shire Council to ban the use of exotic animals in circuses on council land as other Sydney councils have done.

Hills Shire

Castle Hill RSL the suspected location of 500 new seniors living apartments. Saturday April 28 , 2018 (AAP Image/Monique Harmer)

500 homes for RSL club

CASTLE Hill RSL Club could house 500 seniors’ living apartments under an ambitious development proposal.

Hills Shire

Rick Allison at the location where the Glenhaven Mosque is being concidered. Monday May 7 2018 (AAP Image/ Monique Harmer)

’No place for a mosque’

GLENHAVEN residents have argued a lack of infrastructure and protection of green space should prevent a mosque from being approved for Larapinta Place.

Hills Shire

Cr Raymond Harty poses for photographs looking over the carpark near Castle Mall in Castle Hill on Friday the 27th of October 2017.Cr Harty would like to see the area redeveloped .(AAP Image/ Justin Sanson

Harty pleads guilty to fraud charge

FORMER Hills Shire councillor Raymond Harty has plead guilty to fraud charges today, following his resignation from local government earlier this week.

Hornsby

Carli Jeffrey and with John Farrar from (FRAG) with Residents who are furious after a development application was lodged by the San Hospital's parent company for high-rise development wrapping around the Sydney Adventist School on Fox Valley Rd, Wahroonga. Wednesday 2nd May 2017 ( AAP image/ Mark Scott )

Parents rally to fight high-rise development

A PLAN to surround Wahroonga Adventist School with hundreds of apartments has outraged residents — but the Adventist Group won’t support the community’s battle.

Hornsby

23/3/18: Catholic family, Nick Berman, wife, Christine and kids Kate and John at Waitara Public School in Wahroonga. The Berman's are a Catholic family who have chosen the local state school because of its good reputation and strong community values. John Feder/The Australian

$30m upgrade equals 65 more students

A Multimillion-dollar upgrade to Waitara Public School will see 16 demountables replaced by a four-storey learning centre. While it will house 37 teaching spaces — it will only accommodate an extra 65 students.

BREAKINGHills Shire

Hills councillor resigns amid fraud charges

HILLS Shire councillor Raymond Harty has resigned from local government amid fraud charges.

Hills Shire

$3b Hills showground masterplan canned

THE BATTLE for the $3 billion masterplanned community at the Castle Hill Showground precinct isn’t over — despite the Hills Shire Council decision to deny the proposal.

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