Consistency key for Chloe in push for Rio and other top stories.

• Consistency key for Chloe in push for Rio

  Chloe Logarzo is focused on being the “player everyone counts on” when she pushes her claims for Olympic selection against New Zealand. NEWCASTLE Jets attacker Chloe Logarzo is focused on being the “player everyone counts on” when she pushes her claims for Olympic selection in the Matildas’ farewell matches against New Zealand.DETERMINED: Chloe Logarzo in action for Australia during the Olympic qualification tournament against South Korea in Osaka, Japan, on March 4. Picture: Gett..

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• Cardboard artist sails by city

  

  A celebrated Los Angeles artist will show Novocastrians how to make art from everyday objects. SHIPS AHOY: University of Newcastle lecturer Kit Messham-Muir and exhibition curator Danielle Minett with visiting artist Kiel Johnson, right. Picture: Simone De PeakA STUDY trip to the US last year by a group of arts students has brought celebrated Los Angeles cardboard sculptor Kiel Johnson to Newcastle for a collaborative exhibition and series of workshops. Mr Johnson also creates dra..

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• Newcastle surf goes off big time | photos, video

  

  ALL TIME: A select few big-wave riders paddle out at Merewether Point. Newcastle surf goes off big time | photos, video SOLID: Merewether local Tim Ryan out at Merewether Point on Tuesday morning. Picture: Grant Sproule.Photo: Throwing BucketsPhoto: Throwing BucketsPhoto: Throwing BucketsPhoto: Throwing BucketsPhoto: Throwing BucketsPhoto: Throwing BucketsPhoto: Throwing BucketsPhoto: Throwing BucketsPhoto: Throwing BucketsPhoto: Throwing BucketsINSTA: @surf..

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• Unlikely allies in arguments over light rail

  

  EDITORIAL: Hunter Business Chamber and Save Our Rail find common ground. THE Hunter Business Chamber and the lobby group Save Our Rail have hardly been the best of friends over the years. Indeed relations between them have been somewhere between non-existent and poisonous.Yet now, thanks to the state government’s handling of the Newcastle light rail project, they find themselves on a unity ticket that would have been unimaginable in previous circumstances. Even Jeff McCloy, whose ..

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• Safer in car than 'last resort' hotel: woman

  

  A domestic violence victim felt safer in her car than a NSW Government-referred 'last resort' hotel. Concerned: VOCAL support workers Kerrie Thompson (left) and Rachael Garrick outside the Silk Hotel in Newcastle. Even the hotel's owner said it was not "ideal" for women because it was primarily for men. Picture: Simone de Peak.A WOMAN fleeing domestic violence chose her car rather than a NSW Government-referred “last resort” Newcastle hotel room in March, prompting questions about..

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• Bedsheet rope found in Nowra prison escape plot

  

  NSW: Staff uncovered a rope made of bedsheets and in doing so foiled a potential prison escape. MAKESHIFT: The rope, made of torn strips of bedsheet, was allegedly intended to hoist two inmates to freedom. Source: Corrective ServicesStaff have uncovered a rope made of bedsheets in the process of foiling a prison escape at South Coast Correctional Centre in Nowra. A lone car in the otherwise deserted prison carpark roused the suspicions of staff who were watching on camera from the..

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• Rafa Benitez and Newcastle locked in talks over future

  

  Rafael Benitez and Newcastle remain in talks more than a week after the Spaniard could have walked away from St James' Park. Neither the 56-year-old nor the Magpies have activated the release clause in the three-year contract they negotiated back in March should the club be relegated from the Barclays Premier League. Instead, discussions which began after Sunderland 's victory over Everton on May 11 confirmed Newcastle's drop into the Sky Bet Champio..

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• Ko Kret: Bangkok's best-kept secret

  

  Steve McKenna finds a serene green island escape on Bangkok's city limits Ko Kret: Bangkok's best-kept secret exitImagine breakfasting in the urban jungle of Bangkok, then, an hour or so later, you're cycling past luxuriant green fields and palm-tree-lined canals, sleepy stilt villages and ornate temples. Birdsong and rooster cries pierce the serene, steamy air, radiant butterflies flutter before your eyes and pollution-spewing cars and buses are conspicuous..

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• Turn $10 into hundreds with TopBetta Tournaments

  

  How you can turn a small outlay into hundreds of dollars. You know that $10 bet you put on a 5-1 shot that lost at the weekend? Well, what if we told you it could have been used to turn it into hundreds of dollars. How would that sound? Read on.Let's just say you have $10.You decide to have a bet with that $10 and you place a ‘win’ bet on a horse. It loses.So, what are you left with now?Absolutely nothing!But let’s look at the same scenario differently: What if you used that $10 t..

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• NRL Early Mail Round 12: All the latest team news ahead of ...

  

  Bryce Cartwright ruled out for NSW1:36Rugby League: Bryce Cartwright has been ruled out for NSW in this year's State of Origin series. Daley also discusses several other team selections such as Adam Reynolds at halfback. GET all the latest team news in the Round 12 edition of NRL Early Mail.With Origin wreaking havoc regarding team lists, several clubs will be forced to dig deep into their lower grades to fill the gaps this weekend.In the biggest team news so far:* The Panthers might not be pla..

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Malaysian who spent wrongly transferred $4.6m: I thought my parents gave me the money .	Victims of EgyptAir MS804 'terror attack' named as former TV actress, and captain promoted four days earlier .
'Devastated' Wijnaldum can't shake Newcastle relegation woes .	Childhood poverty may be cancer risk later .