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Kaitlyn Hudson-O’Farrell is a general news reporter and has worked at The Daily Telegraph since June 2019. She enjoys covering everything from breaking hard news to grassroots community affairs and lifestyle or health yarns.

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NSW

***EMBARGOED FOR MIDNIGHT THURSDAY 21st JANUARY, 2021***SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY, 20, 2021: Staycations in Sydney and surrounds are a holiday trend of the season with border closures keeping Sydneysiders' tourist dollars to be spent in their home state. Staycationers Annabelle and Rowan Russell, are enjoying a luxurious stay at the newly opened Crown Resorts in Barangaroo in Sydney, Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Luxury staycations boom as travel ban bites

Lavish staycations have become the next best option for travel-hungry Sydneysiders, with five-star hotels and Airbnbs seeing record bookings as the pandemic-driven recession ends.

NSW

Pictured in the widow of an art and design shop on Macleay Street in Potts Point is a painting depicting young people holding protest placards. Picture: Richard Dobson

Vulgar Trump artwork attracts police attention

A NSW artist’s painting has turned heads for featuring a profanity directed at Donald Trump after it was placed in the window of a Potts Point art gallery.

NSW

BOM Warning image issued at 5.08pm 14/01/2021

Large hail hits Sydney’s north as storms sweep NSW

Large hailstones and damaging winds have hit Sydney’s upper north shore, as severe thunderstorms sweep across NSW.

NSW

Board the Manly Ferry and photograph the high swell in the harbour.

Second Manly ferry saved for weekend tourism trips

Half the famed Manly ferry fleet has now been saved from the scrap heap after a campaign to preserve them.

Police & Courts

Illegal cockfighting syndicate dismantled, 35 detained and 71 chickens seized at a property at Camden Valley Way at Catherine Field. Picture: NSW Police via NCA NewsWire

Police seize cockerels, charge men in cockfighting crackdown

Sheds full of cockerels have been seized and 34 men will face court as part of a large-scale animal cruelty investigation.

NSW

a bushfire burns near Platts Rd, Mila in the Snowy Monara region on Wednesday afternoon. Source: NSW RFS

Hot, dry weather sparks season’s first blazes

Firefighters are on high alert as hot temperatures and strong winds spark NSW’s first bushfires of the season.

NSW

ImAge from the Twitter account Connor Wherrett, @CSWherrett, Bus on fire at corner of Glebe point rd and Broadway in Glebe , , https://twitter.com/CSWherrett/status/1348525772147806210

Bus spectacularly catches fire in Sydney’s inner-west

Passengers had to jump for their lives on Monday evening when a bus caught fire on a busy road in Glebe, leaving it completely destroyed.

NSW

Anthony Albanese in hospital after ‘serious’ car crash

Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese remains in hospital this morning after being involved in a “serious” car crash on Friday evening.

QLD News

Father Joseph Shorey at the scene on Warne St in Wellington where two children were killed, two more and an adult were also injured during an alleged hit and run car crash on Tuesday afternoon. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Dad blasts driver charged over deaths of ‘beautiful’ sons

The father of two Queensland boys killed by an out-of-control car in NSW says his heart has been “ripped out”. He has spent the day at the spot on the small town street where his sons’ lives were snatched away to play their favourite songs.

Police & Courts

Dad blasts driver charged over deaths of ‘beautiful’ sons

Police allege 25-year-old Jacob Donn was behind the wheel of a Holden Commodore that mounted the kerb and hit four young boys on Tuesday afternoon.

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