Wollongong Vietnam service welcomes all and other top stories.

• Wollongong Vietnam service welcomes all

  

  Veterans of the war in Vietnam have their own ANZAC Day ceremony in Wollongong on Sunday evening. All welcome: Vietnam Veterans Association members Pam Bowmaker, Peter Pioro, Graham Parsons, Ian Birch at the memorial on Flagstaff Hill. Picture: Robert Peet.Veterans of the war in Vietnam have their own ANZAC Day ceremony in Wollongong on Sunday evening.Many veterans are part of different RSL sub-branches and often march with them for the ANZAC Day march, so this service is an oppor..

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• New era of industry ready in Port Kembla: photos

  

  Large-scale manufacturing may be dead, but MM Kembla wants to help smaller operations thrive. New era of industry ready in Port Kembla: photos Michael Croghan, Pace Logistics' Mike Egan and MM Kembla's Rupert Blatch in a refurbished 1960s saw-tooth shed, part of the MM Industrial Park. Picture: Robert PeetMM Industrial Park ready to help other small or niche businesses thrive. Picture: MMJ Wollongong. Picture: suppliedMM Industrial Park ready to help other s..

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• The week in pictures: April 23, 2016 | Photos

  

  WOLLONGONG: Underwater world: Chloe Saxby swims with Emma and David McKeon on Thursday. The McKeons' swim school held a pool party fundraiser for Chloe at Unanderra. Pictures: Sylvia LiberBALLARAT: The best beards and moustaches will soon be on show. Picture: Lachlan BenceDUBBO: Aston Davis and Kieth Yap take part in the Action Painting school holiday workshop at the Western Plains Cultural Centre. Photo: BELINDA SOOLELAUNCESTON: Business owners in the Quadrant Mall are frustrated over ongoing w..

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• Old owners come back to haunt miner

  Non-payment of royalty debts by former management comes back to haunt Wollongong Coal. More than a quarter of the shares in Wollongong Coal could soon be owned by a company being liquidated, under a plan to be put to shareholders next month.If this is not approved, it will have to pay out more than $8.5 million courtesy of a 2008 deal reached over remediation and royalty fees the miner owed to Bellpac Pty Ltd, a former owner of the Russell Vale colliery.Wollongong Coal does not ha..

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• South Coast Brekkie Wrap | Saturday, April 23, 2016

  

  Your morning news headlines from across regional Australia and beyond. State of the nationNeed a national news snapshot first thing? Well, we have you covered. ► Winners and losers may yet change in child-abduction case in Lebanon. Read more.►SHOALHAVEN: South Coast dad jailed after he went from upstanding citizen to drug dealer in less than a year. Read more.► BATEMANS BAY: On the hustings in Batemans Bay, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has been quick to back embattled..

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• $50k promise falls flat in Oak Flats kidnapping case

  

  Trajkovski's family suggested the cash surety, but it proved not enough to secure his release. File photo.Alleged Cordeaux Heights standover man Nikola Trajkovski will remain behind bars until at least May after a magistrate rejected his most recent bail application on kidnapping charges.The application, made in Wollongong Local Court on Thursday, had been backed by a $50,000 bond care of Trajkovski’s family, who agreed to forfeit the money if he failed to show up to court in the ..

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