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Christmas Races
SALLY Torrens’ recent run of minor placings went one better on Saturday – twice – when the popular trainer led back a winning double at the Moree Ag Supplies Christmas twilight race meeting. Torrens trains a big team at Gunnedah and two weeks ago led back three minor place-getters at her hometown Christmas meeting. Previously, [...]
Regional Crime
THREE girls have been arrested and one will face a children’s court after an alleged car theft and pursuit in Tamworth at the weekend. One girl is aged 15 and two are aged 12. Officers attached to Oxley Police District patrolling the West Tamworth area about 9pm, Sunday, December 21, when they allege three youths [...]
Regional News
WHIDDON Robert Young Narrabri has been crowned the winner of the 2025 Whiddon Gingerbread House Competition. Each year, residents from Whiddon’s 23 homes across regional and rural New South Wales and south-east Queensland participate in the annual decorating competition. The event invites residents to come together and embrace the Christmas spirit, building edible gingerbread houses [...]
Regional Health
INVERELL Shire Council has reaffirmed its commitment to improving local health services by supporting ongoing advocacy efforts to attract a permanent senior doctor to the Inverell District Hospital. The initiative, co-ordinated by Hunter New England Health in partnership with the Inverell Health Forum and a consortium of medical organisations, represents the first step in establishing [...]
Gun Laws
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan will oppose the Minns Labor Government’s Terrorism and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 in Parliament this week. Following the terror attack in Bondi on December 14, NSW Premier Chris Minns recalled Parliament for Monday and Tuesday this week to discuss changes to firearms laws. Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism [...]
Our Community
THE Moree Markets on Sunday closed another big year at Jellicoe Park, with organisers preparing for an even bigger and better 2026. The December 21 markets are traditionally the second held in December during the lead-up to Christmas, and again drew stall-holders from across the region. Market-day co-ordinator Rhiannon Barr said stall-holder numbers are building [...]
Christmas Races
PORT Macquarie jockey Ben Looker bravely smiled as he watched Navy Buoy win the TAB Highway Handicap at Randwick on Saturday from the jockeys’ room at Moree racecourse. Looker had the choice of one ride at Randwick for Port Macquarie trainer Paul Snowden or a full book of rides at Moree, including ghostly-grey Toowoomba mare [...]
Gun Laws
THE state’s peak farming group warns rushed changes to firearms legislation are unworkable. NSW Farmers’ president Xavier Martin said multiple attempts had been made over the past week to engage with the NSW Government in the wake of the Bondi terror attack to ensure farmers and those in agriculture were not impacted by any knee-jerk [...]
Christmas Races
RACEGOERS handled a typical Moree summer afternoon at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races on Saturday, when more than 3500 people converged on the local track to take in six races and after-party entertainment by Australian country music star Max Jackson. Moree Race Club secretary Michell Gobbert said Saturday’s twilight meeting was [...]
Christmas Races
COFFS Harbour apprentice Grady Spokes made the trip westward well worth the ‘weight’ on Saturday, with a winning double at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races. The journey to professional ranks hasn’t been easy for the 22-year-old former picnic jockey, the son of well-known Northern Rivers rider, Raymond Spokes. Not that long [...]
