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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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Cleo Whithear, Real estate Agent. Novak Properties, Northern Beaches, Sydney. Photo: Supplied

Estate agency manager convicted for refusing police breath tests

A senior real estate employee, who hid behind a garden shed to avoid being breath tested by cops, has been sentenced in a Sydney court.

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Cleo Whithear, 44, a senior property manager at the Novak Properties real estate agency on the northern beaches.

Estate agency manager convicted for refusing police breath tests

A senior real estate employee, who hid behind a garden shed to avoid being breath tested by cops, has been sentenced in a Sydney court.

Manly

Generic photographs of parking tickets, City of Sydney (Surry Hills). Ranger, fine, car,

Call for council’s ‘ticketless’ parking fines to be scrapped

The days of ‘brown bombers’ leaving a parking fine docket under the wipers are over on the northern beaches in favour of a ticketless system. But a move is on to bring back the paper.

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An artist's impression of the proposed extension of Dee Why RSL's Oceangrove seniors living complex on Pittwater Rd, Dee Why.

Bid to allow 10-storey retirement village at popular RSL

A northern beaches’ club wants to build a 10-storey retirement village to meet a massive demand for units from downsizing seniors. See the images.

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Push for late night ‘entertainment’ precincts on northern beaches

Live music venues, eateries and bars on the northern beaches could stay open longer if a new push to create ‘special entertainment precincts’ is successful. See what it means here.

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Alfie Darby, 5, has been remembered as a âbeacon of lightâ after his death on Sunday. Picture: Facebook.

Speed limit change set for Sydney park where boy, 5, killed by car

A crackdown on illegal parking is underway and a possible reduction in speed limits is on the drawing board after a boy, 5, was killed by a car at a busy northern beaches’ park.

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An artist's impression of a proposed seniors' living ,10-unit complex to replace two family homes in Kevin Ave, Avalon Beach. Picture: Supplied

Beaches’ backlash over bid to build backstreet senior’s units

Locals say a plan to bulldoze family homes and replace them with a seniors’ living complex will change the “character and beauty” of their northern beaches’ suburb.

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Generic Scene showing the B-line bus stop (city bound) at Spit Junction in Mosman on 28th March 2019. (AAP Image / Julian Andrews).

Boost in Beaches’ bus services to help answer commuter complaints

New timetables, with a jump in services, are set to bring relief to frustrated northern beaches’ commuters who have been coping with packed buses, long queues and rides just not turning up.

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Business student convicted over shop refund scam

A woman studying for her Master’s degree in business and risk analysis at a Sydney uni, ripped off her bottle shop boss in a refund scam. See what the court decided.

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Man charged with assaulting 13-year-old boy near Sydney beach

A man has been charged with assaulting, and then following a teenage boy at a popular Sydney beach.

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