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Madeline Crittenden is a reporter for The Sunday Telegraph. She joined in 2021 after covering crime and courts for several mastheads throughout NSW.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: NewsWire Photos: FEBRUARY 28 2024: At 12.50pm on Wednesday 28 February 2024, emergency services were called to a building on Castlereagh Street in the Sydney CBD, following reports of a person being shot. Officers from Sydney City Police Area Command attended and found a man believed to be suffering a gunshot wound. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Triple-0 calls unable to be connected after Telstra bungle

Telstra will urgently review its services after almost 150 triple-0 calls across the country could not be transferred to emergency services on Friday morning.

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M6 workers evacuated, building collapse fear as sinkhole opens up

Workers have been evacuated from a Rockdale industrial complex, after a sinkhole opened in a carpark this morning.

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Australia’s Sleep Revolution With Dr Michael Mosley Picture: SBS

Forget Ozempic, this is how to lose weight simply by closing your eyes

Forget Ozempic for weight loss, or puzzles and brain trainer games for your memory – here’s one simple act you need to try.

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WARNING. WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING. Kassan Twitchin, a female prison officer has traded places with the criminals she was paid to guard, spending more than a month in a solitary cell after she was caught trying to smuggle drugs into jail . Picture confirmed by Madeline Crittenden

Guard jailed after drug drop to inmate boyfriend

A female prison officer has spent almost a month in a solitary cell after she was caught trying to smuggle drugs into jail for her ‘bad influence’ boyfriend.

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FEES APPLY, ONE TIME USE ONLY., FATAL SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH - WARDELL, SATURDAY, TWENTY-FOUR FEBRUARY 2024 07:29:11 AM, , THREE MEN AND A WOMAN HAVE DIED FOLLOWING A SINGLE-VEHICLE CRASH IN THE STATES NORTH., , SHORTLY AFTER 5.45AM (SATURDAY TWENTY-FOUR FEBRUARY 2024), EMERGENCY SERVICES WERE CALLED TO BACK CHANNEL ROAD, WARDELL, FOLLOWING REPORTS OF CRASH., , OFFICERS ATTACHED TO RICHMOND POLICE DISTRICT ATTENDED AND LOCATED A BLUE MAZDA BT50 UTILITY THAT HAD LEFT THE ROADWAY AND HAD ROLLED., , THE MALE DRIVER AND THREE PASSENGERS – TWO MEN AND A WOMAN – DIED AT THE SCENE., , A CRIME SCENE WAS ESTABLISHED AS SPECIALIST POLICE FROM THE CRASH INVESTIGATION UNIT INVESTIGATE THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE INCIDENT., , , A REPORT WILL BE PREPARED FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE CORONER., , ROAD CLOSURES ARE IN PLACE AND DRIVERS ARE URGED TO AVOID THE AREA.

Passer-by spotted crashed ute with four dead inside

Four people are dead after a crash near Ballina this morning that saw a ute lose control and roll off the side of a road.

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23/02/2024. The Daily Telegraph. News. Balmoral, Sydney, NSW, Australia.Portraits of six Sydney women who have been impacted by brain cancer who are taking part in the Sydney Skinny, the worldÃs first open-water nude swim that takes place in Sydney Harbour annually to help raise money for a nominated foundation.Pictured (L-R) are Alana Phadke, CEO of the Charlie Teo Foundation Kylie Randall, Brain Cancer PatientMarcella Zemanek, Ambassador of the Charlie Teo FoundationKerry-Anne Johnston, Ambassador of the Charlie Teo FoundationSue-Ellan Vasiliou, Co-founder of the Little Legs FoundationBeatrice McBride, Brain Tumour SurvivorPicture: Julian Andrews

Sydney Skinny more daunting than surgery for brain cancer survivor

Kylie Randall has had major surgery to remove 80 per cent of a brain tumour, but the cancer survivor says she is much more nervous about stripping off next month for a naked swim to raise funds for research.

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. , PLEASE CONTACT WEEKEND PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING. , Viraaj Nayak, 10-months-old, has a very rare brain tumour known as Hypothalamic Hamartoma. ,

Sydney baby’s ‘giggle’ a life-threatening risk

Ten-month-old Viraaj Nayak’s laughs are not a sign of joy – they are gelastic seizures, triggered by a “giant” tumour in the centre of his brain.

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Calls for soft drinks to have a 20 per cent tax.

The soft drink NSW prisoners go mad for

There’s one surprising thing that inmates can’t get enough of behind the iron gates – a simple can of soft drink.

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPH - 30.1.24UNTIL MUST NOT PUBLISH BEFORE CLEARING WITH PIC EDITOR - Ronny, 16yr old from the Solomon Islands pictured at RPA after undergoing a 14hr operation to remove a facial tumour. Prof Raewyn Campbell on right who was the surgeon. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Mercy flight from the Solomons gives Ronny his life back

He has been unable to go to school for six years or play soccer with his friends but now a 16-year-old from the remote Solomon Islands has been gifted a new life after the removal of a huge nasal tumour by RPA surgeons.

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‘I couldn’t leave that kid and watch them burn to death’

A man has described the moment he pulled three trapped and badly injured teenagers from a burning car wreck after the vehicle exploded in a fiery crash on Friday night.

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