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TAKE A PEAK BACKSTAGE
By YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY Backstage at a theatre is where you’ll find the nuts and bolts of any show. Behind the scenes is as much a home to performers and techies
as theatre seats are to their audiences – and those audiences aren’t usually able to see what goes on behind the curtain. Breaking that unwritten law that an audience member must never
peak behind the curtain is exactly what Dubbo Regional Theatre manager Linda Christof (pictured) says people really want to do, and so to satisfy their curiosity the theatre has introduced some very
special Backstage Tours. It’s a move that is drawing a new audience, proving a popular activity during the recent school holidays.
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16 CARS TORCHED By JOHN RYAN
Graeme Gadsby said the damage done at his car yard by vandals has been very costly. PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS/EMY LOU
SIXTEEN cars at an isolated outof-town wrecking yard have been
Arrest over cold case 1999 murder By JOHN RYAN NEWS ANALYSIS IF there’s one case that’s haunted me for more than two decades, it’s the senseless murder of Mudgee teenager Michelle Bright back in 1999. After she first went missing, her mum Loraine gave us permission to film Michelle’s room as well as interview the family.
I knew then that this wasn’t a young girl who’d gone over to the coast with a carload of mates at a whim after a Saturday night party – it was obvious she and her mum were as close as could be. With sinking hearts, cameraman Mel Pocknall and I drove to Orange to file the story and just as we arrived back into Dubbo we heard on the police
scanner that a body had been found in grass near the railway tracks not far from Michelle’s house. On Monday this week, police announced a $1 million reward for information in relation to Michelle Bright’s murder. Incredibly, just a day later an arrest was made near Mudgee.
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torched in two arson attacks. Graeme Gadsby says it’s heartbreaking to spend so many hours working in his car wrecking busi-
ness, only to have vandals decide they’d have some fun by setting multiple vehicles alight.
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Truckie says: It’s not all beer and skittles on the road
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