Newcastle Salary Cap Clean-Out and other top stories.

• Newcastle Salary Cap Clean-Out

  

  Posted: 15 August, 2016 by AAP Newcastle Salary Cap Clean-Out Tags: Newcastle Knights, Kade Snowden, Jarrod Mullen Jarrod Mullen of Newcastle Photo: Getty Images Newcastle coach Nathan Brown says he hasn't spoken to star playmaker Jarrod Mullen about moving on from the NRL club as part of a salary cap clean-out at season's end. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN LIVE: Hear all the NRL action live on Triple M. News Corp Australia repo..

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• Servant of the people

  

  He was one of the University of Newcastle's first students and became its leader WHETHER it was as a young BHP steelworker, his time mentoring troubled youth at Newcastle Youth Service, or his tenure as the University of Newcastle’s Chancellor, Trevor Waring touched the lives of thousands of Novocastrians like few others have.  Happy days: Trevor Waring outside the University of Newcastle's McMullan buidling in 2014 recalling his early days at the bushland campus in the late 1960s..

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• When this city pub-rocked

  Gaye Sheather's new book lifts the lid on Newcastle's glorious pub rock past. ROCK GODS: Newcastle band A Rabbit performing at Nobbys Beach in January 1977. From left, Jim Porteus, David Hinds, Dave Evans and Barry Litten. Picture: Courtesy of David HindsTHE pub rock scene in Newcastle during the 1970s and ‘80s was a time far removed from the city’s current entertainment trends.Across Newcastle and Lake Macquarie’s suburbs pubs and clubs rocked with music, in some cases, almost se..

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• Art meets health for pioneer

  

  NEWCASTLE artist and designer named among pioneering young Australians. SELECT GROUP: Newcastle artist and designer Bliss Cavanagh has been named one of 60 young achievers by the Foundation of Young Australians. Picture: Ryan OslandA NOVOCASTRIAN with Tourette Syndrome has been named a “social pioneer” for the studio she designed to help her live with the condition.Artist and designer Bliss Cavanagh built her tactile, colour-saturated space as a filter for her symptoms, and has si..

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• Protectionist set for more overseas glory

  

  Protectionist's Hunter owners eye more big races overseas after group 1 win in Germany. Australian Bloodstock director Luke Murrell rates Protectionist only a 20 per cent chance of returning for another Melbourne Cup campaign after the 2014 champion’s comprehensive group 1 win in Germany.ProtectionistProtectionist, owned by the Hunter-based Australian Bloodstock syndicators, powered to a two-and-a-half-length victory in the Grosser Preis von Berlin on Monday morning (AEST) in Hopp..

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• RSPCA investigates possible mass greyhound grave near Newcastle

  

  Greyhounds racing in Sydney. (AAP file image) RSPCA inspectors will travel to bushland near Newcastle to investigate another possible greyhound burial site.The RSPCA received a complaint yesterday, after two people discovered skulls that appeared to come from dogs in bushland near the Swan Bay area, the ABC reports. "We saw skulls with blunt trauma on top of their head and the more we walked we found more skulls with blunt trauma,” witness Bobbie Antonic said.Up to seven skulls were found.The ..

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• Hunger games: Nordstrand on new Jets season

  

  Newcastle Jets striker Morten Nordstrand says he can sense an added hunger during pre-season which he hopes can propel the club to a Finals Series in the new Hyundai A-League season. Nordstrand is gearing up for his first full season in the competition after making an instant impression following his signing midway through last season's campaign. The Jets have set a target of returning to Finals Series football in Season 2016/17 after going six campaigns without making the business en..

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• Young talent goes missing

  

  Newcastle will have to defend the regional championship without some of its best and brightest. The Newcastle representative side will be missing a host of young guns when they defend the Zone 2 Regional Championship at Magenta Shores this weekend.Newcastle beat Central Coast, Hunter River and Lower North Coast at Hawks Nest last year as Waratah’s Greg McMillan and Tanilba Bay’s Carter Nepia won the open and junior individual titles. Young talent goes missing ..

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• Ryan still true to his church

  

  Vince Ryan has told a judge he fears returning to jail. VINCE Ryan is nothing if not true to his church. He said a lot of words in court on Monday about remorse and being sorry for his crimes, but his actions outside told a different story.He was silent when I gave him the chance to say sorry on film to his many Hunter victims, as he’d told the court he wanted to do. He said nothing, kept his head down, and when I asked if he wanted to say sorry, his unidentified elderly male frie..

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• AFL 2016: The best of Round 21 | photos

  

  Jake Long, Joe Daniher and the Bombers walk to the rooms after winning the round 21 AFL match between the Essendon Bombers and the Gold Coast Suns at Etihad Stadium on August 14, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Scott Barbour/Getty ImagesLance Franklin of the Swans is tackled by Sam Gilbert of the Saints during the round 21 AFL match between the St Kilda Saints and the Sydney Swans at Etihad Stadium on August 13, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. Photo: Scott Barbour/Getty ImagesLewis Taylor of ..

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