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Fight against malaria a win for populations across the globe
Australian scientists have taken a key step towards developing a vaccine against malaria, after solving a mystery about how parasites carrying the life-threatening disease infect…
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SD NEWS: Mildura set to swelter (January 5)
Mildura set to swelter, wharf jump fears, pensioners targeted by phone scam. This is your Friday SD News bulletin.For these stories and more, pick up…
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Ban texting L-plate and P-plate drivers for 12 months, AMA says
MILDURA police have described drivers using mobile phones as a “big problem” following the proposal of tough new road safety measures for those caught doing…
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Call to fine wharf jumpers as youth get more brazen
FINES need to be dished out to deter youths from carrying out increasingly dangerous and reckless stunts at the Mildura Wharf, according to a local…
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Beauty, another show
SINCE Irymple’s Peter Lang first lit up the stage in the early 1980s, he hasn’t looked back.Later this month he will take on the role…
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Tax goes against the grain
MALLEE grain growers were expected to be among the hardest hit by a new 30 per cent tariff on chickpeas and lentils introduced by the…
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Summer grape wrath looms
GRAPE growers are bracing for this weekend’s extreme temperatures in a bid to prevent damage to their crops.Tabletop Grapes owner Elina Garreffa said a single…
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Road trauma reduced
THE Sergeant of Mildura’s highway patrol says police technology which can track and predict collisions is helping to bring down road trauma in Mildura. There’s been…
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Winning couple takes cake
IS running a competition targeted at same-sex couples discrimination?Local cake maker Sarah Shaw doesn’t think so.Ms Shaw has been operating Sarah’s Petite Treats in Mildura…
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Happy returns for LAC in new year
BARRIER Local Area Command (LAC) Inspector Yvette Smith says she is pleased with the results of NSW Police road blitz Operation Safe Arrival, which ended…
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Search for driver after car splits in two
POLICE are searching for a mystery driver who miraculously escaped a crash which split a Holden Commodore sedan in two. Police were called to the…
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Putting a lid on it
HALF of all the waste Mildura residents put in their general kerbside rubbish bins could be diverted from landfill if a Mildura Council plan to…
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