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Jim O’Rourke is a journalist with more than 35 years’ experience writing for major metropolitan newspapers as well as community and regional mastheads. He has covered politics, local government, industrial relations, transport, courts and crime.

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Jim O'Rourke

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Manly

Beau Osborne-Bradley, 26, from Haymarket. Picture: Facebook

Man drives 73km/h over limit in police pursuit

A driver who said he had been using ‘ice’ pleaded guilty to leading police on a wild high-speed, wrong side of the road, pursuit on the northern beaches.

Manly

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Man charged with $10k cash grab from posh Sydney eatery: court

One of Sydney’s poshest restaurants was allegedly robbed of $10k by Luke Simon Willmott from the Central Coast. A court heard he also allegedly took $3000 from a nearby bottle shop on the northern beaches.

Manly

***Image confirmed by journalist Nick Hansen***Tyson Dellosta, 21, was arrested over a brawl with police in a Dee Why car park on New Years Eve, December 31, 2018.Picture: Facebook

‘Come over here ya dogs, I’ll f***ing bash you’

A man with a vicious history of assaulting police has pleaded guilty to threatening to bash officers outside a northern beaches police station.

Manly

CareFlight emergency helicopter medical crew and ambulance paramedics attend to a boy, 12, who suffered serious facial injuries after he fell from his bicycle while riding on a jump ramp in a reserve at Mona Vale. Picture: CareFlight

Unauthorised bike jumps to be levelled after boy badly hurt

Northern Beaches Council is set to level unofficial bike jumps after a boy, 12, suffered a serious head injury in a 2m fall.

Manly

Classic dishes from Old Fashioned Fish 'N' Chips at Narraweena, named in the top 10 fish and chips shops in Sydney by GQ magazine. Picture: Supplied

‘Old fashioned’ fish and chip shop makes swanky top 10 list

A modest, old style fish and chips shop on the northern beaches has made it on to a swanky magazine’s top 10 list of seafood takeaways.

Manly

First look at revamp plans for popular waterside eatery

It has always been popular with Manly locals, but now a modest kiosk has lodged plans for a revamp and you can have your say.

Manly

William Mainprize and partner Carolyn Gray. William is among those who are still missing after the livestock boat he was work on capsized near Japan last week.

Federal government helps in bid to find man missing in typhoon

The Mainprize family from Avalon has been encouraged by the federal government’s efforts to assist them to get Japanese authorities to find their son and brother.

Manly

Andrew Urgarte, (right), manger of Surf Life Saving NSW's new State Operations Centre at Belrose, speaking at its official opening. Picture: Supplied

Revealed: New hi-tech hub helps heroic surf life savers

Operators in a high-tech hub at Belrose, armed with surveillance cameras and drones, will help volunteer surf life savers rescue people and keep them socially distanced this summer.

Manly

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‘We’re hopeful’: Family’s plea for Sydney man missing after shipwreck

Will Mainprize has been lost at sea for nine days but his Avalon family, who has not given up hope he is alive, are urging authorities to keep searching.

Manly

COVID-19: Drive-thru bottle shop launched on northern beaches

In a first for Australia, a northern beaches bottle shop is using rego plate recognition camera technology to get customers in and out in less tan three minutes.

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