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9.00am: Thanks for joining the Morning Grill today and don't forget to tune in tomorrow when Mark Rayner and Nick Guthrie will have all your local, regional and national news for you.
To take you through Thursday, here's a cute cat video.
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8.52am: From today Narromine will have a new amenities block at the Wetlands. Member for Dubbo Troy Grant will be there to officially open the facility, funded by the NSW government. Narromine News reporter Grace Ryan will also be there.
8.44am: Is it your birthday today? Hope it's fantastic!
You share your birthday with author JK Rowling and actor Rico Rodriguez.
It's also Harry Potter's birthday - did you know JK Rowling gave her creation the same birthday as her own?
8.33am: Making entertainment news:
What started as a rumoured dalliance between Australia's biggest beauty export and the celebrity everyone loves to hate has ended with an alleged punch in an exclusive Ibiza restaurant. The now infamous "punch" has drawn the spotlight on a confusing web involving Miranda Kerr, Justin Bieber (of childhood fame and general brat behaviour), Orlando Bloom, and former Australian power-couple James and Erica Packer.
Did you see the Bachelor premiere last night? Here's our overview: A lonely bachelor simultaneously dates 24 women in a bid to find ‘true love’. At the end of each episode, the aforementioned bachelor leads a ‘rose ceremony’ - the ladies who aren’t given a rose are shown the door. Eventually the harem is whittled down to one and the happy couple ride off into the sunset.
He appeared out of the depths at Docklands this week and will rise from a lake at Elsternwick's historic Rippon Lea Estate next week. Don't be surprised if you see the giant replica of actor Colin Firth as Mr Darcy in TV's Pride and Prejudice on tour in future: perhaps heading down to Bells Beach for a dip, or popping into Canberra's Lake Burley Griffin.
And here's a book review for the week, with something from history - my favourite:
PETER FINN and PETRA COUVEE
In the long, long twilight of the Brezhnev years, Moscow's Hotel Pekin represented an establishment that had somehow managed to weather the vicissitudes of Sino-Soviet tensions. The dining room there, not far from the Lubyanka but a long way from Langley, must have had more intelligence operatives at its tables than most places on Earth.
In the long, long twilight of the Brezhnev years, Moscow's Hotel Pekin represented an establishment that had somehow managed to weather the vicissitudes of Sino-Soviet tensions. The dining room there, not far from the Lubyanka but a long way from Langley, must have had more intelligence operatives at its tables than most places on Earth.
8.24am: Take a look at today's front pages.
8.11am: Here is the medal tally from the Commonwealth Games - check out Australia's leading position.
Find an overview of how Australia jumped into first place here.
8.05am: Breaking news out of the Commonwealth Games at Glasgow.
Athletics Australia has suspended its head coach Eric Hollingsworth, with the controversial coach poised to be sent home from the Commonwealth Games for his extraordinary outburst criticising Sally Pearson. Athletics Australia President David Grace QC released a statement condemning Hollingsworth for the fact he said anything, for what he said about Person in particular, and for the timing of what he said.
8.00am: A video to bring a smile to your face - or a tear to the eye.
7.52am: Here's today's front page story from the Daily Liberal.
THE introduction of a linear accelerator at Orange Base Hospital has been of little help to western NSW, the Dubbo and District Branch of Can Assist says. It comes after a report in Tuesday’s Daily Liberal about huge out-of-pocket expenses faced by patients forced to travel for treatment. Can Assist’s Stuart and Wendy Beveridge believe Dubbo Hospital needs a linear accelerator.
“Dubbo is said to be a hub of the west - it should be eminent in all fields and be able to do everything,”
- Stuart Beveridge said.
Read the complete story here.
7.44am: To celebrate the end of the month, the Narromine News has put together a mega Throwback Thursday gallery. Check out the pictures here:
7.32am: Here is today's stories from the region and across the nation.
It was a storm that had been brewing for years, and many feared it would one day end in violence. Tragically for Glen Turner, that day came on Tuesday when tensions over illegal vegetation clearing in north-west NSW allegedly came to a devastating head.
Australia's big banks are fuelling their hot competition in the home loan market by ramping up their use of cheap global financing, raising $125 billion on wholesale funding markets in the last financial year. With global interest rates at record lows, new figures show banks are borrowing more from markets that were a significant source of instability during the global financial crisis.
A push to swell the ranks of the Australian Public Service's grey army looks set to meet resistance at the top level of the bureaucracy and among its political bosses. The Human Rights Commission says older workers are being disproportionately hurt in redundancy drives, like the one gripping the public service, and it wants quotas and targets to ensure that the APS is doing its bit for older Australia.
HALF of Esso Park has been poisoned and adjacent properties have been purchased by Orange City Council, yet there has been no confirmation why. Council has bought the adjacent vacant block, which used to be a Shell service station, and the rundown former shop on the corner of Summer and Woodward streets.
ORANGE’S guaranteed water supply, top-class amenities and strong agriculture and mining industries are the key reasons the city has been named one of Australia’s best places to buy a residential investment property. Research compiled by property listing site Onthehouse.com.au ranked Australia’s top locations for rental investment, based on their predicted growth rates over five years.
A woman caught driving an unregistered car with illicit drugs in her system has been fined $300 and disqualified from driving for four months. Kim Leanne Hartnett, aged 46, of Payne Close,Kelso appeared before magistrate Michael Allen in Bathurst Local Court on Monday.
7.19am: Here is today's local news stories.
DUBBO police have raided their second residence in as many days as part of a strike force targeting drug supply in the Orana Local Area Command. Officers accompanied by a sniffer dog descended on the Alcheringa Street house about 1.45pm yesterday.
Two people facing a string of charges at Dubbo allegedly received at least $27,000 from drug supply activities in the past month. Adrian John Toomey and Nicola Jaye Hinton were remanded in custody at Dubbo Local Court yesterday.
A MAJOR milestone was achieved in the construction of the $290 million Nyngan solar plant with the installation of the first solar photovoltaic (PV) nodules. Parkes MP Mark Coulton, who attended yesterday's ceremony to mark the milestone, said Nyngan's climate made it ideal for a large-scale solar project.
IT has been 18 months since he last stepped onto Dubbo soil, but the boy from the bush is back in town. Country singer Lee Kernaghan will be taking to the stage at the Dubbo RSL Club Resort on Saturday, August 23.
THERE has finally been movement at a vacant block of land in Brisbane Street that has, for some time, been an eyesore. The former ambulance station site will eventually play host to a two-storey building that will host Macquarie Credit Union as its major tenant.
7am: Good morning everyone! Happy Thursday! You're grilling this morning with Faye Wheeler from Dubbo and Grace Ryan from Narromine.
Here's today's weather:
DUBBO / TRANGIE / NYNGAN: Dubbo and Trangie are sunny with tops of 20 degrees, Nyngan is mostly sunny with a top of 23.
COBAR / BOURKE: are sunny, Cobar will reach 23 and Bourke will get to 25.
