Hospital venture collapses as receivers brought in

OWEN FERGUSON HEALTH, the company that ran Canada Bay Private Hospital, has collapsed less than a week after the state government expressed confidence in working with it on a $51 million hospital at Homebush Bay.

Staff Take A Day Off To Save Their Jobs

THURSDAY has become the new Friday for a Lismore advertising firm. Since Christmas all staff at the North Coast Ad Agency, including the boss, have had their working week reduced in expectation of a sluggish year.

Sex, Drugs And Murder Suspect

THE German backpacker accused of killing his girlfriend Simone Strobel at a Lismore caravan park has been drug dealing and romancing women at a South African holiday resort.

Suspect Living On Wild Side In South Africa

THE German backpacker accused of killing his girlfriend, Simone Strobel, at a Lismore caravan park embarked on a life of drug dealing and romancing women at a South African holiday resort after her death.

Fit-again Starlactic Set To Put Best Foot Forward

GRAFTON sprinter Starlactic is expected to resume his career at Lismore on March 26.

Olley Masters Give And Take

AN exhibition of the work of Lismore-born artist Margaret Olley opened at the Lismore Regional Gallery recently; shown in conjunction are the still-life paintings of Angus McDonald. Having donated a painting and had her company at lunch raffled off, Olley departed for Sydney. In her possession were two bunches of flowers (she'd admired them), a large pineapple (she loved the look of it and had carried it about all day) and a green velvet jacket. The jacket, which writer Rosie Lee, excited to be ...

Academic Activist Was 'always An Agitator'

WINIFRED Mitchell - historian, feminist, daughter of Wollongong - has died in Lismore aged 89.

Illawarra Side Proves Worthy Representative

THE Illawarra under 12 representative cricket team proved itself among the best in the state by making the semi-finals of the junior carnival in Lismore.

Bayliss Fears Bushrangers Could Snatch Cup With Late Charge

NSW coach Trevor Bayliss has rated Victoria the side to beat in the Pura Cup this season after the Bushrangers pulled within two points of the competition lead through their rained-out draw against the Blues in Lismore yesterday.

Phelps Hits 133 But Tail Collapses

MATTHEW Phelps's home town hundred could not stop Victoria taking the only two points likely to be had from this match in Lismore amid a building logjam at the top of the Pura Cup table.

Blues Join Bushrangers' Runfest

IN LISMORE's only previous interstate first-class match, neither NSW nor Queensland could reach 250, balls refused to reach ankle height off a pitch playing either like a minefield or a mineshaft, and many a batsman declared he would never return.

Ex-slogger Hopes For A Big Home Advantage

NSW batsman Matthew Phelps is back at his "home ground" and keen to make an impact in the top-of-the-table Pura Cup match between the Blues and the Bushrangers at Oakes Oval in Lismore today.

Blues In Luck As Vics Rest Warne

NSW's hopes of taking a more decisive lead at the top of the Pura Cup table in Lismore next week have been boosted by news the most successful bowler in history will not be there to torment them.