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• Kiewa Street a winner

  

  Locals still love Kiewa Street's fresh lookByEllen EbsaryNov. 20, 2015, 11:30 a.m.Locals say Kiewa Street in Albury has been made safer by upgrades to the pedestrian crossing.CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION: DMB Dancers entertain a big crowd of onlookers at last year's official opening of the new Kiewa Street redevelopment. Picture: TARA GOONANA year on, the fresh look of Kiewa Street in Albury is still a hit with shoppers and businesses.Shoppers say $1.8 million upgrades to parking, crossings and landsca..

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• Benalla Rovers selected to represent association.

  Megan Webster has been selected to represent NSW Country at the FFA National Futsal Championships.The young soccer star was ecstatic to be among 10 players chosen in the girls under-12 Country side that will go up against the best players from across the country.‘‘I was very surprised,’’ she said.‘‘I didn’t know I was actually going to represent NSW — I’m going to be playing against Victoria, so that’s going to be difficult.’’While Webster has a wealth of soccer experience, futsal is a brand new..

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• Cannabis remains in system 'for weeks'

  

  Magistrate's cannabis warningNov. 20, 2015, 10:39 a.m.An Albury magistrate has warned people about mixing cannabis with drivingTony MurrayA magistrate has warned anyone making the illegal decision to smoke cannabis to also be aware of the further wrongdoing of then driving a vehicle.Tony Murray said people often mistakenly thought the main active ingredient in the drug – tetrahydo-cannabinol, commonly known as THC –  was out of their system within 24 hours.Mr Murray said in Albury Local Court th..

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• Nissan Navara Cab Chassis 2015 Review

  

  The rural town of Albury, just on the Victoria-NSW border, is a progressive country space, combining traditional farming practices with heavy industry, advanced ...

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• New C4EM boss wants to see positive change

  

  Now, he is Committee for Echuca Moama’s chief executive.And the 41-year-old is ready to be part of what he knows is an ‘‘informed, proactive and progressive decision making community’’ and lead it through any challenges ahead.‘‘I hope to inspire the Echuca-Moama community to take advantage of current opportunities,’’ Mr Szakal said.‘‘It is a dynamic period for regional Australia, but some places have more reason to be optimistic than others.‘‘By inviting opportunity to the region, developing the..

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• Wangaratta claims Veterans Shield at Canberra tournament

  

  A team from the North East has been entered in previous years in conjunction with teams throughout the Albury/Wodonga Football Association. With no such ...

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• Priest sticking with Sainthood

  

  The 2008 TAC Cup Morrish medallist will stay in the Goulburn Valley Football League for a consecutive season after playing a key role in Benalla’s first premiership in 42 years.Priest was simply unstoppable in Benalla’s preliminary final thumping of Rochester, booting six goals before three-quarter-time in a performance for the ages at Deakin Reserve.He left the field with hamstring soreness and sat on the bench for the final term, but recovered in time to kick three goals in the Saints’ grand f..

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• Southern lamb quality gets the best saleyard money mid-week

  PRICES for quality trade and heavy export lamb prices were firm to dearer in saleyards mid-week, despite some domestic buyers not operating at New South Wales centres.With quality waning in NSW saleyards, trade and export buyers are focussing on the flush of lambs in southern markets, especially Hamilton and Mt Gambier mid-week.Prices lifted with the quality at these markets despite agents yarding more than 54,000 lambs at Hamilton on Wednesday and Mt Gambier agents lifting their lamb offering b..

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• PM Modi woos Southeast Asia: Facing the China challenge

  

  WhenNarendra Modilands in Kuala Lumpur on November 21 on a four-day visit to Malaysia and Singapore, this will, somewhat surprisingly, be the well-travelled Prime Minister's first visit to the heart of Southeast Asia. A year ago, when Modi visited Myanmar-Asean's western-most member-he outlined what was at the time billed as one of his government's first major foreign policy initiatives: upgrading theManmohan Singhgovernment's "Look East" policy, much derided as a toothless attempt to try a..

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• Hasna Ait Boulahcen: French 'cowgirl' turned suspected suicide bomber

  

  Hasna Ait Boulahcen: French 'cowgirl' turned suspected suicide bomberAulnay-sous-Bois (France) (AFP) - Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman believed to have blown herself up during the police raid that killed the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, swapped her party-girl persona for that of an Islamist radical just months before her death.Boulahcen's story is that of a young woman from a broken home with an unstable disposition, who was nicknamed "Cowgirl" because of her penchant for cowboy hat..

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