Summit had the ideas for job creation

24/07/2008 | The local environment, provision of industrial land and utilisation of power station by-products emerged as key issues proposed by participants at a Lithgow Jobs Summit on Tuesday.

A talkfest or a positive start?

A talkfest or a positive start?
24/07/2008 | There was a huge amount of interest shown in the Jobs Summit held on Tuesday, reflected by the large number of people who filled the Millennium Room of the Lithgow Workmens Club.

What happens when the highway deviation bypasses your town?

24/07/2008 | If nothing else the proposals for a deviation of the Great Western Highway through Hartley and the possible alternative of a Newnes Plateau route have generated some strong viewpoints and healthy debate.
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Cross Country riders take on the Down Hillers

Cross Country riders take on the Down Hillers
24/07/2008 | Round eight of the Angus Place Springvale Coal Winter Mountain Bike series was a great spectator event as crowds took advantage of the mild conditions and settled in to watch the action over a picnic lunch in the pine forest.

The English are coming!

24/07/2008 | Lithgow Junior Men’s Hockey will be hosting two English teams from Langley Park Boys High this Saturday commencing at 9.30 am.
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Screws tighten on persecuted sect

12:00 AM AEST | HELEN, a university graduate who speaks English and another European language fluently, lives in poverty in a rundown apartment block in a Chinese city we cannot identify to protect her.
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Save on interest - you deserve it

Save on interest - you deserve it
24/07/2008 | The great contradiction of life in a modern capitalist economy is that to be a winner you have to resist most of the blandishments of the capitalists.
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