Skaife quits retirement for Bathurst

RETIRED V8 champion turned television commentator Mark Skaife is to have another crack at Australia's greatest motor race, the Bathurst 1000, in October.

Out Bush, It Takes A Lot Of Determination To Realise Your Dreams

IT WAS once so much harder to be an aspiring soccer player in regional Australia. Although I was born in New Zealand, I spent most of my childhood growing up in small Australian country towns, mostly in Albury-Wodonga and Bathurst. Later, I moved to Gippsland, where I started my professional soccer career.

Divisive Seeks Special Win

DIVISIVE will contest the Shirley Turnbull Memorial (2535 metres) at Bathurst on Friday night.

Tough Road For Wollongong Towards Scg Cup

WOLLONGONG have been handed the toughest draw of the four clubs from the region to advance to this weekend's SCG Country Cup carnival in Bathurst and Orange.

Region's Finest Chase State Cricket's Top Prize

FOUR of the region's best teams are chasing the biggest prize in NSW country club cricket, with the finals of the SCG Country Cup in Bathurst and Orange from Saturday.

Six In Court Over Pedophile Allegations

THE school chaplain at the centre of an alleged pedophile ring at St Stanislaus College has been charged with having homosexual intercourse with a 12-year-old boy and engaging in two acts of buggery with pupils at the Bathurst school.

Discipline Master Charged

A FORMER director of discipline at an exclusive Catholic boarding school in Bathurst has been charged with child sexual offences, in a police investigation of events at St Stanislaus College spanning 30 years.

Discipline Master Charged At St Stanislaus

A FORMER director of discipline at an exclusive Catholic boarding school in Bathurst has been charged with child sexual offences, in a police investigation of events at St Stanislaus College spanning 30 years. Father Phil Robson, 60, a board member, former teacher and director of discipline, was arrested on five charges, including aggravated sexual assault and indecent assaults. Father Greg Cooney, 61, the head of the order in Australia and a former school chaplain, was also arrested and ...

We Stop. It's Over. I'm Alive

I am in the passenger seat next to Jim Richards, flying down Conrod Straight, as the seven-time Bathurst winner takes a quick peak at the speedometer.

Whincup Triumph Just The Start Of Triple Eight Dominance: Team Boss

TRIPLE Eight Racing is now the superpower of V8 supercars. And Jamie Whincup's first championship win will usher in a period of dominance for the Queensland-based team, says Roland Dane, the driving force behind Triple Eight. Anglo-Irish businessman Dane bought the team from Brisbane-based John Briggs five years ago. Besides winning the V8 crown this year, it has also racked up a hat-trick of victories at Bathurst, and enjoyed success in the other endurance classics at Sandown and over the ...

Priest's Allies Slam 'trial By Media'

AS PETER DYWER, a Vincentian priest, emerged from Bathurst District Court yesterday he was surrounded by about 20 people who shielded him from the media and bemused onlookers.

Families Mourn As Four Die In Plane Crash

FOUR people - including Melbourne policewoman Erin Condon and her nine-year-old son Matthew - died when the twin-engine plane carrying them to an athletics event in New South Wales crashed into a hill and burst into flames near Bathurst.

Whincup Runs Hot As Rivals Wilt

TRIPLE Bathurst hero Jamie Whincup has put himself in a perfect position to claim his first V8 Supercar drivers crown after a dominant display in the opening two heats of the Desert 400 in Bahrain put him well clear of his nearest challengers, defending champion Garth Tander and fellow Ford driver Mark Winterbottom.

Ambition Drives Lowndes

HE is the master of Mount Panorama with four Bathurst titles to his name, but he has not won a V8 driver's title in nearly a decade.

Four Die In Plane Crash At Bathurst

FOUR people, including a child, died when a plane owned and operated by a Melbourne pilot crashed in NSW last night.

Four People Killed In Plane Crash Near Bathurst

FOUR people, including a child, died when their aircraft crashed into a hillside at Kelso, near Bathurst, in the state's central west, last night.

Unearthing Our History

THE first time Bob Ellis saw his father cry was when Ben Chifley lost office in 1949. Ellis was seven years old. The author, speechwriter and Labor Party historian has since written or co-written one film featuring the Labor icon, Newsfront; one mini-series, The True Believers; and a one-man play, A Local Man, re-creating Chifley's last night in Bathurst before he died. So when director Geoff Burton was looking for a co-writer on his dramatised documentary about the time prime minister Chifley ...

Sedan Starters

Two of Australia's most experienced sedan racers, Glenn Seton and Brad Jones, have been confirmed as starters in next February's WPS Bathurst 12-Hour production car race.

V8s Hit The Home Straight With Three In Title Contention

WHEN the gallopers round the home turn in the Melbourne Cup, the whips start cracking and the race is on in earnest. For those who prefer their horsepower on four wheels rather than four legs, Bathurst is the equivalent of the turn into the long, daunting Flemington straight on the first Tuesday in November.

Millions Spent To Rectify Works

THE full scale of the bungled $100 million Bathurst Base Hospital redevelopment has been revealed, major works being undertaken at a cost of millions of dollars to rectify serious building design faults.