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Nick Hansen is the deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph. He has previously been the publication’s chief of staff and head of news.

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NSW

**MUST CREDIT TNV** Lake Macquarie shark attack: Jack Hanna had been swimming with his dog ten minutes before the attack on the 58-year-old man at Yarrawonga Park on Saturday evening. Picture: TNV

Shark victim: ‘I’m glad it was me and not a child’

A retired marine biologist who had his arm mauled by a bull shark in Lake Macquarie said “I’m glad it was me and not a child” as his wife and others tried to stop the bleeding.

UpdatedNRL

League stars claim racial slurs led to brawl

Corey Norman and James Segeyaro have claimed a horrific racial slur and threats of a knife being pulled were what led to a brawl that the NRL is now investigating.

Police & Courts

Detectives investigating the murder of a man in Sydney’s south-west have charged a teenager over the alleged theft of a vehicle nearly two years ago., , Just before midnight on Saturday 29 August 2020, emergency services were called to Wall Avenue at Panania, following reports of gunshots., , Officers from Bankstown Police Area Command attended and found a man suffering multiple gunshot wounds., , CPR was performed until the arrival of NSW Ambulance paramedics; however, the man died at the scene., , He has since been formally identified as 39-year-old Fares Abounader., , The matter was referred to the State Crime Command’s Criminal Groups Squad, who established Strike Force Manifold to investigate the man’s death.

Teen charged over bikie murder vehicle

Police have charged a teenager with stealing a car which was later used, they suspect, in the execution of well-known Sydney bikie Fares Abounader.

NSW

Video Grab: Chaotic scenes as police attempt to stop a man in a white van at Bankstown Central Shopping centre. , Picture: Supplied

Gun-toting cops in comical attempt to catch suspect

Police drew their weapons as a driver ploughed his white van into multiple parked cars during chaotic scenes outside Bankstown Central shopping centre today. Watch the footage.

ExclusiveNSW

Miranda Kerr warned after breaching quarantine

Police went to the luxury home where supermodel Miranda Kerr and her Snapchat founder husband Evan Spiegel were after she breached a 14-day isolation order.

Newcastle

Tributes flow after four dead in two separate Hunter crashes

One of the four people killed in a horror day on roads in the Hunter has been remembered as “an amazing, kind, caring girl”.

NSW

Final honour for fallen police officer at funeral

A police officer who died when she jumped into a whirlpool to try and save someone else has received the state’s highest bravery award.

Police & Courts

‘I wish it was me, not my babies’: crash mum speaks

A mother who lost two sons when an unlicensed driver ploughed into them at Wellington has spoken for the first time after waking up from a coma.

ExclusiveCanberra Star

An officer from the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre arrives at Port Macquarie base hospital after being held hostage for 5 hours by an armed inmate , Picture by Nathan Edwards

Officer stabbed 40 times in prison hostage scene

Horrifying details of the torture of a corrective services officer, who was tortured by a teen terrorist in a five-hour ordeal can be revealed.

ExclusiveNSW

Tortured with chemicals: Prison officer’s horrible ordeal

A prisoner in jail for an Islamic State-inspired murder kidnapped a guard last month and held him for hours, stabbing him 40 times and pouring chemicals over him.

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