WED 15 JAN 2014
Printed on 100% recycled paper
Kim Churchill
PROUDLY INDEPENDENT
Trades & Services Need help at your place this weekend? p.20-21
Family waits in hope Journeyman returns ‘home’ p.16 Dirt bike drama p.4
World of Dance Highlighting the Hunter’s best
p.12-13
Parents and police in plea for information over Pip Manley’s disappearance Melissah Comber
“I
just want to know he’s alive.” This is plea from the father of missing Bolwarra Heights man, Pip Manley, as the family renews their call for information about his disappearance. Pip Manley was last seen on November 21 last year, when he was dropped off at Telarah train station by his mother to meet a friend. The 21-year-old University of Newcastle student has not been seen or heard from since. According to his father, Jonathon Manley, the disappearance is out of character for Pip, especially as the pair had confirmed plans to meet at the Belmore Hotel the next day. “We were going to watch the Gabba Test and have a steak together.” Crime Manager for the Central Hunter LAC, Detective Inspector John Zdrilic said that no evidence could found of any activity since November 21. “There’s been no activity on his social accounts, there’s been no activity on his mobile phone, there’s been no activity on his bank accounts. Continues on page 3
Pip Manley, missing since November 21