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Anger drives fig supporters future effort
10:28 AM | ACTIVISTS who campaigned against the felling of Laman Street’s fig trees vowed to maintain their rage, after a noisy farewell march on Newcastle’s city administration building yesterday.   | CommentsComments (29) | Figs: What they said | Honoured citizen searched | GALLERY: Laman Street on February 1
Hunter push for high-speed rail
4:00 AM | THE Hunter should be first in line for a station on a high-speed east coast rail network. That is the message from a consortium of business leaders, government officials and politicians from within and outside the region.   | CommentsComments (23)
Midnight Capers thrashes Futurity rivals
4:00 AM | MIDNIGHT Capers flew out of box one and put her rivals away in scoring a scintillating win in the group1 National Futurity final (515metres) at The Gardens last night.
Combet urges innovation in manufacturing
4:00 AM | INNOVATION was the word of the day during Greg Combet’s visit to an Ampcontrol manufacturing plant in Cameron Park yesterday.   | CommentsComments (4)
Councillors push for show holiday
4:00 AM | NEWCASTLE Labor and Greens councillors have signed a rescission motion aimed at making Newcastle Show Day a public holiday.   | CommentsComments (3)
Knights trialist gets Votu of confidence
4:00 AM | FIJI World Sevens rugby union captain Watisoni Votu made the most of his chances by scoring a try for the Knights in their 32-0 victory over the Newcastle Rugby League representative side in a pre-season trial at Tomaree last night.
Uni students scramble for accommodation
4:00 AM | LANDLORDS are collecting up to $1000 a week for student digs around the University of Newcastle as competition for rooms heats up.   | CommentsComments (6)
Wheels in motion to rev up region’s BMX scene
4:00 AM | FOR Adam Ingles extreme sport is more than just a hobby and he has lofty ambitions to raise the bar and improve the BMX scene in the Hunter.
HEZ companies in liquidation owing $98m
4:00 AM | TWO companies that owned what was meant to be the state’s biggest employment development site at Kurri Kurri have been placed into liquidation, owing more than $98million to lenders and about $800,000 to creditors.   | CommentsComments (5)
Toxic slag health fear for Lake Macquarie
4:00 AM | TOXIC black slag spread across large areas of Lake Macquarie remains a serious public health threat that authorities have known about for years but failed to properly manage, critics say.   | CommentsComments (2)
Bodhi Festival a spirited revival for David Jones building
4:00 AM | THE next chapter for the David Jones building in Newcastle will be more spiritual than commercial. Later this month the abandoned building will host the Bodhi Festival for three days from February 24.   | CommentsComments (1)
Fruit a threat in school lunchboxes
4:00 AM | KIWI fruit, raspberries and blackberries are the latest foods off the menu at Hunter schools because students can have life-threatening allergic reactions.   | CommentsComments (14)
Jets end Payne: Young striker leaves after 12 minutes of action
4:00 AM | CHRIS Payne’s career with the Newcastle Jets is over after just 12 minutes of game time in the A-League. The Jets announced yesterday that they had ‘‘mutually agreed’’ to terminate the 21-year-old striker’s contract, less than halfway through his two-year tenure.  | CommentsComments (7)
Gary van Egmond desperate for Jets to maintain momentum
4:00 AM | COACH coach Gary van Egmond admitted he was glad to have the ‘‘gorilla’’ off his back but warned the Jets faced more testing times, starting with the difficult road trip to Sydney FC tomorrow.   | CommentsComments (4)
Howell happy back in Blacks
4:00 AM | MAITLAND back-rower Michael Howell is looking forward to putting the enjoyment factor back into his rugby union.
Charismatic Irishman Ronan Keating
4:00 AM | Despite spending the past two years zigzagging across the globe between Ireland and Australia, Ronan Keating still hasn’t conquered the unavoidable jet lag.
House of the week - sublime space
4:00 AM | IF you need plenty of space – to either play or work from home – then finding that elusive property that ticks all the boxes can be hard.
WORD OF MOUTH: Church in a pub? That's the spirit
4:00 AM | Wearing a charcoal T-shirt and striped shorts, Minister Kevin Wilcock breaks into a wide grin as he greets this newcomer at The Great Northern Hotel on a cloudy Sunday afternoon.   | CommentsComments (3)
Thousands flee northern NSW floods
03 Feb 12 | Thousands of residents were left stranded or forced to evacuate their homes in northern NSW yesterday after the worst floods in more than 25 years hit the region.   | CommentsComments (9) | Hunter braces for more rain and ...
Fig supporters urge 'positive change'
03 Feb 12 | Save Our Figs called on supporters yesterday to contain their anger ‘‘and to channel it towards positive change to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again in our city’’.   | CommentsComments (161) | Sharp reply on figs cut | Charges to be defended | GALLERY: The Laman Street fig trees come ...
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