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.

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.

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.

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.

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