Can the Knights avoid a dubious club record? and other top stories.

• Can the Knights avoid a dubious club record?

  

  NRL cellar dwellers need to spring an upset on arch-rivals Manly IT’S the dubious club record Newcastle Knights players would prefer not to discuss, let alone equal or break.You never want to lose two games in a row, let alone 13 or whatever it’s going to be. - Knights prop Korbin SimsBut after 12 straight defeats, they head to Brookvale Oval on Sunday to face Manly, who have a chance to consign their long-time rivals to an unwanted page in rugby league history.Newcastle’s worst-e..

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• Design of Newcastle house is out of the box, but on a penny-wise ...

  

  This interesting boxy house is a bridging building sitting at the nexus of a residential area where it seeps into the light industrial zone of a long Newcastle street. Now a refreshing reflection of its location, it was conferred on the tight triangular block courtesy of “a slip of the hand of an excavator driver” and an army of white ants who put paid to an intention of reformatting a Victorian cottage. “When building started,” says architect James Clarence of Newcastle’s SDA or Space Design A..

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• Debunking myths and sharing crematorium secrets I photos

  

  It has been 80 years since the Hunter's first crematorium opened at Beresfield. Debunking myths and sharing crematorium secrets I photos RESPECT: Servicemen from the RAAF Base Williamtown, at the memorial park in 1951, pay tribute to Flying Officer Bruce Clarke Wilson, who died in an aircraft accident.UNDER CONSTRUCTION: The crematorium being built on March 20, 1936. The Newcastle Memorial Park in 1942.The Newcastle Memorial Park in 1952.Inside the new north..

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• Club receives Carlson jersey

  

  It is a piece of Newcastle rugby league history that until now has been wrapped in plastic and sitting in the back of a wardrobe. IT is a piece of Newcastle rugby league history that until now has been wrapped in plastic and sitting in the back of a wardrobe.The Australian jumper worn by Newcastle great Brian Carlson in Great Britain in 1959 was on Friday presented to the club named in his honour.Robert Benson, whose father Gordon was a well-known referee and lived close to Carlso..

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• Newcastle boxed-in over container terminal

  

  EDITORIAL: Newcastle fights with a hand tied behind its back. FINALLY, after years of dispute and denial, the state government has confirmed that it privatised Port Botany and Port Kembla in such a way that contractually renders a future container terminal in the Port of Newcastle financially unviable.It has only done this after being confronted by the Newcastle Herald with the evidence in the form of a “strictly confidential” document known as a “port commitment”, which quite cle..

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• STAND UP

  

  We often hear about abuse and deprivation of children but this week we were witness to their suffering Fear and shame: The Don Dale juvenile detention centre in the Northern Territory. Image from Four Corners ABC NewsI WATCHED with absolute horror the ABC’s Four Corners story on the treatment of children, the vast majority indigenous, in NT detention centres.    The program showed video evidence of children as young at 11 beaten, abused, humiliated and deprived of basic human righ..

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• And here's the dope

  

  Go to Rio, buy a t-shirt, and put on your rose-coloured glasses. THE official Olympic Games website features a pile of shiny photos about Rio 2016, a pile of inspiring stories about sports people, and a pile of things the Olympic movement is flogging at its online Olympic Games shop.There’s an official Olympic Games shopping bag bearing the jaunty slogan “Shopping is not a sport on the Olympic program”, proving that the International Olympic Committee is really, at its heart, just..

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• Bulldogs on tightrope to last finals spot

  

  Warners Bay cannot afford a slip-up this week against the Black Diamond cellar dwellers. Newcastle City's Courtney Knight will return from a shoulder injury on Saturday against Cardiff at No.1 Sportsground.Warners Bay have the chance to move back into the Black Diamond AFL top four when they travel to last-placed Killarney Vale on Saturday.The Bulldogs lost fourth spot to Nelson Bay on percentages last weekend when they fell to Cardiff but will edge back ahead if they beat the Bom..

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• Double-amputee surfer Red Wheatley's road to California begins at ...

  AMPUTEE surfers walking from Newcastle to Sydney to get to US championships. STILL STANDING: Jade Wheatley, who lost both legs in a heavy machinery accident when he was 18, will walk from Newcastle's Nobbys beach to Sydney in 11 days for his sport of Adaptive Surfing. Picture: Marina NeilTHIS year, on the anniversary of the compact roller accident that cost Jade ‘‘Red’’ Wheatley his legs, he’ll be climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge.The father-of-two from Garden Suburb will be at t..

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• Innovation recognised for clarity

  

  Three University of Newcastle scientists who developed a new technique for examining biological specimens with a custom-built microscope are finalists in this year’s Eureka Prize for innovative use of technology. THREE University of Newcastle scientists who developed a technique for examining biological specimens with a custom-built microscope are finalists in this year’s Eureka Prize for innovative use of technology. Dr Jamie FlynnDr Jamie Flynn, Anthony Martin and Will Palmer ad..

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Newcastle praised for preparedness for resettling Syrian refugees .	EPL transfers: Georginio Wijnaldum to Liverpool, Dutch international ... .
Shorten announces new-look frontbench .	Federal Government orders two Australian cattle exporters to stop supplying to Vietnam .