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De La Salle College recently hosted their Active Fest event. During the event, students displayed their PExpo projects at the school’s sports hall.

THE work of Cheshire writers on humankind and the human spirit features in a newly-published collection of prize-winning literature after being…

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ONCE upon a time, if you wanted a beer you went to Queanbeyan, simple. Thanks to King O’Malley, the federal Minister for Home Affairs of the day, Canberra was a dry town from 1911 to 1929.  King O’Malley… a fierce teetotaller, who called grog “stagger-juice”. O’Malley, a fierce teetotaller, who called grog “stagger-juice” and abstained from it, persuaded his cabinet colleagues to ban, in 1911, the granting of liquor licences in the Federal Capital Territory.  Queanbeyan resid...

Christmas is rapidly approaching and you are in a panic about what to get for that special someone. Rest assured that you are not alone. General William Sherman found himself there in 1864 when he had not had time to go shopping for his commander-in-chief. His solution was to wire President Abraham Lincoln with the following: “I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the City of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.” The president a...