Bikers ride to ‘create more prostate cancer survivors’: Twenty-five blokes on postie bikes will visit Shepparton to raise awareness and funds to battle prostate cancer and support families affected by the disease in regional Australia.
Council to advocate for water reform in NSW: Greater Shepparton City Council will write to the NSW Minister for Lands and Water to advocate for regulation of flood plain harvesting.
Shepparton Festival coming to life: There’s a sense in Shepparton that something big is unfurling, writes Caitlyn Grant. Art is popping up on walls and creatives are on the loose.
It can only mean one thing: Shepparton Festival is back.
UPDATE, 3.20 pm: Reported explosion in Ardmona
Energy Safe Victoria is investigating the reported explosion of an LPG cylinder used for cooking yesterday, leaving a man with burns to up to 35 per cent of his body and suspected internal injuries.
The 68-year-old is in a critical condition at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.
A Victoria Police spokesperson said emergency services were called to an Ardmona Rd property after a gas bottle exploded in a shed about 2.30pm.
The full story is coming on its way to our website.
UPDATE, 12.40 pm: Good boy Ollie #notsponsored
As our Seymour correspondent Georgia Rossiter makes the journey south, I will be grabbing the reins.
Her step mum Roxanne Ratila said Sienna always wanted to be with her friends.
“As soon as the sun came up on a Saturday she’d ask to be dropped in town and if we were too busy she’d say ‘I’m catching the bus then, I’m not waiting for you’,” she said.
“Energetic”: Mooroopna’s Sienna Ratila, 13, is being remembered by family and friends after her tragic passing on Friday, March 11.
He was speaking in response to a public question at the March 15 meeting asking whether council had done its due diligence on the impact to neighbouring Shepparton ACE Secondary College.
Over in NSW, the state has recorded more than 30,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
In it’s daily announcement, NSW Health advised a data issued has meant a significant number of rapid antigen tests recorded between Sunday, March 13 and Monday, March 14 were reported today.