Previews: Newcastle and Albury and other top stories.

• Previews: Newcastle and Albury

  Trainer Joe Pride admits New Tipperrary won’t be suited by the distance on Thursday. Picture: Jenny EvansJOE Pride has one runner at Thursday’s Beaumont meeting and he’s hoping the three-year-old will develop into a stakes horse.New Tipperary is a horse that has continually improved as he has developed in his Warwick Farm home, with his best public performance coming at his most recent start.The son of High Chaparral debuted with a fifth behind Realise Potential over 1200m before Pride stepped h..

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• Shepparton hospital redevelopment to get $168m in upcoming state ...

  

  Shepparton hospital redevelopment to get $168m in upcoming state budget By Tony Cattermole, Erin Somerville and James Graham Posted April 21, 2016 10:46:41 Work on the redevelopment of the Shepparton hospital will start in 2018, with the $168 million project to be completed by late 2020.The Victorian Government announced the funding package yesterday, ahead of next week's state budget.The redevelopment and expansion will include three new operating theatres, two..

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• On the go | Thursday, April 21, 2016

  

  On the go Bendigo | Thursday, April 21, 2016 April 21, 2016, 6:30 a.m. Your morning news headlines from across regional Australia and beyond. Today's Instagram #picoftheday is by @edamoo of the new Bendigo Hospital at twilight - tag your weather pics #bendigoweather and we'll feature the best ones here.Good morning central Victoria! We’re in for a cloudy day with a high (70%) chance of showers, most likely in the late morning and afternoon - Bendigo &..

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• Hunter Breakfast – April 21

  

  Morning Shot: Darren Pateman caught this shot of artist Dino Consalvo working at Merewether earlier this week.Weather: Partly cloudy in Newcastle (24 degrees) and Nelson Bay (25 degrees). Similar conditions in Cessnock (27 degrees), Maitland (28 degrees), and clearing cloud in the Upper Hunter (28 degrees).Beachwatch: Once again we’ll see a bit of cloud but with light winds and a bit of sunshine it’s going to be another fantastic day beachside. The wind will be north to north-west in the morning..

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• Youths ink and think

  

  Murals have been painted at the Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service in Glenroy to get people talking about sexual health. TALKING HEADS: A group of Indigenous youth, with the help of Coffs Harbour graffiti artist Ashley Johnston, created murals in Glenroy.A group of Indigenous youth have pulled the issue of sexual health out from under the rug in a very big, colourful way. Twelve Border teenagers created two murals at the Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service in Glenroy to..

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• Green Guide letters: Tony Robinson an 'oaf' on Time Walks

  

  Tony Robinson in Time Walks. Photo: History Channel  LETTER OF THE WEEK Tony Robinson was hilarious as Baldrick, and tolerable as foil to the real archaeologists in Time Team. But in Time Walks he comes across as, at best, an irritating little twerp, and at worst as an insensitive oaf. I refer to his direction of visitors to the Fremantle Museum to re-enact, with great hilarity, the massacre of the men, women and children who survived the Batavia shipwreck in 1629. Fortunately, Robinson sto..

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A $1.3 billion mission to study gravitational waves in space just passed an official "sanity check" .	Setting up a new charity .
Southern Downs players in Albury for the nationals in polocrosse .	Sophie Mirabella to hitch truckies convoy ride .