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FEBRUARY 18-24, 2021 | LOCALLY OWNED & INDEPENDENT | FREE!
LOVE YOUR PET DAY
ANIMAL KINGDOM
By YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY GETTING a pig for your birthday isn’t the most typical of gifts unless you’re local man, Dick Busch. His pig Myrtle – now somewhat larger than when she first arrived – has become an important part of
Wild brawl as neighbourhood ignites By JOHN RYAN FRIGHTENING scenes in West Dubbo’s Alcheringa Street played out across social media on Tuesday evening, with videos showing a green Honda SUV being driven at a group of people, many of them children. When the vehicle stopped with a flat front tyre a mob descended on it, using golf clubs and other weapons to smash the car’s windows while the driver got into a wild brawl with about 20 people. In some of the vision the alleged driver appeared to be kicked and hit by a number of people after being knocked to the ground while a large number of spectators looked on.
Smashed windows on the car allegedly involved in the incident. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
One video was viewed more than 12,000 times before it disappeared off Facebook. Other footage showed a tense stand-off between police and a large number of people while a person was treated at the scene by paramedics before being placed into a waiting ambulance. Continued page 4
the pet landscape on his property outside of Dubbo. “I got her for my birthday. She was only small, not much bigger than (family dog) KJ when I got her. “She came with a little harness for walking her. “Now she’s like a teenager,
sleeps all day then gets up at about half past five for a feed and wanders around,” Mr Busch said. Myrtle is BFFs with the family dog KJ (short for Kathleen Junior), cat Digby, chooks Dave and Schnitzel, and some guinea fowl. “It’s not unusual to come home
and find Digby and Myrtle following each other around in the paddock together, they buddy up pretty well. They’ll all be waiting at the gate when I come home from work.” PHOTO: DUBBO PHOTO NEWS/EMY LOU
BRIDGE INFO REVEALED
Government study shows River Street Bridge wasn’t the best ‘benefit-cost’ option for Dubbo By YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY
EXPLOSIVE new evidence has emerged that the controversial River Street Bridge project wasn’t the best option for Dubbo in terms of a Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR). On January 21, Labor MLC Courtney Houssos asked a number of questions in state parliament, including: “Regarding the options to build a new Macquarie River bridge in Dubbo: a. Which options were considered by the Department?
b. Which options had benefit-cost ratios (BCRs) calculated? c. For each option for which a BCR was calculated, what was that BCR?” In the NSW state government’s response, it was revealed that the following options were considered by the Department: Troy Bridge Road, Purvis Lane, River Street, Myall Street, Macleay Street, Thompson Street, Talbragar Street, Wingewarra Street, LH Ford Bridge Duplication, Baird Street, Tamworth Street, and Emile Serisier duplication.
Of those, the options that had a BCR calculated (with the BCR result in brackets) were: z Purvis Lane (BCR 0.3) z River Street (BCR 0.5 in 2019, revised to BCR 0.3 in 2020) z LH Ford Bridge Duplication (BCR 0.1) z Emile Serisier duplication (BCR 0.7). Dubbo Photo News has been told a higher BCR indicates more benefit to the community.
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