Working families who are loading their children into cars and tents for a life on the streets are the face of a new generation of homelessness – a crisis which is decimating the middle class amid urgent calls for affordable housing.

An obsessive fan has been charged with stalking one of the country’s top models after allegedly repeatedly turning up uninvited at events where she was appearing.

The city’s biggest cemetery is filling up with underworld figures so rapidly that police are now patrolling it regularly, fearing rivals who bump into each other while visiting loved ones could come to blows – or worse.

And in sport, Wests Tigers chairman Lee Hagipantelis has warned more spectators will be get hurt if the NSW government refuses to fund improvements to Leichhardt Oval after part of a grand stand collapsed.

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