24/07/2008 | SWISS-based multinational food conglomerate Nestle should pay Inverell $10 million in compensation if it goes ahead with plans to sack 170 employees and leave the town by March next year, the local mayor has said.
24/07/2008 | AN on again-off again visit by The Nationals MPs to the site of the Caroona mining blockade erupted into furore yesterday after delegation members allegedly accused landholder Tim Duddy of colluding with The Greens in a political stunt.
24/07/2008 | SHEEP and cattle producers flocked to Tamworth in their droves yesterday for the 23rd annual Grassland Society of NSW conference, grazing on a veritable smorgasbord of tips to boost production.
24/07/2008 | Tamworth teachers will meet on Monday to determine what industrial action their schools will take as they fight to overturn staff advertising changes implemented in April.
24/07/2008 | NEWS of Nestle’s closure plans is blow number two for Inverell, according to Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Andrew Cleaver.
24/07/2008 | AS CAROONA farming families fought to protect their land from mining giant BHP, a Tamworth songwriter tuned up his guitar and wrote a ballad of support to cheer them on.
23/07/2008 | CAROONA landholders have bunkered down to maintain a blockade on a local property, with a National Party delegation visit planned for today.
23/07/2008 | WEST Bowlo Warriors blasted Southgate Inn Athletics out of their Tamworth Baseball first grade clash on Saturday.
23/07/2008 | MICK Hockey has regularly been one of the biggest targets on opposition teams’ radars and against Tamworth on Saturday the Quirindi five-eighth gave an indication why.
23/07/2008 | COONABARABRAN is a win away from the women’s No.3 State pennants final while South Tamworth needs a miracle to reach the decider after repeating Tuesday’s effort with a win and a loss at Tamworth City yesterday.
23/07/2008 | MOREE is fuming that prop forward Daniel Hobday was suspended for three weeks at the Group 4 judiciary last week.
23/07/2008 | NORTHERN Inland got halfway to a great day in the State Youth League on Sunday with the under 13s winning, the 14s drawing and the 15s going down narrowly to Hunter at Tamworth’s Federation Park.
23/07/2008 | POLICE are investigating a fire which began in a Breeza house that was under contract for sale and which the new owner said had sat empty for years.
23/07/2008 | DEPUTY Prime Minister Julia Gillard opened two ground-breaking University of New England projects during her visit to Armidale yesterday.
23/07/2008 | WINTER has settled in and the common cold is out in force.
23/07/2008 | YOUNG men and women were able to get up close and personal with a range of Army weapons and vehicles yesterday when representatives of the 12/16 Hunter River Lancers paid a visit to Tamworth’s TAFE campus.
23/07/2008 | TAMWORTH’S ratepayers are sick and tired of the vandalism and destruction that results from alcohol-fuelled rampages, according to councillor Warren Woodley.
23/07/2008 | DEPUTY Prime Minister Julia Gillard opened the School of Rural Medicine at the University of New England yesterday.
22/07/2008 | THE Moree Murri Taskforce is threatening to take Moree Plains Shire Council and Woolworths to court over the planned construction of a Big W supermarket on the town’s Taylor Oval.
22/07/2008 | CONCERN over a long-awaited water sharing plan that could lead to the demise of the Peel irrigation industry and even a failure to augment the capacity of Chaffey Dam has been expressed by Member for Tamworth Peter Draper.