Warren and Catherine Parsons are Cessnock's citizens of the year
03 Feb 10 | Abermain couple Warren and Catherine Parsons were named Citizens of the Year at Cessnock City's Australia Day celebrations.  | GALLERY: Australia Day 2010
03 Feb 10 | Cessnock Cinema 3 owner John Genetzakis is counting the cost of another disastrous school holiday period with vandalism that’s cost him thousands of dollars.
03 Feb 10 | Cessnock City Council will be developing a program to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the discovery of the South Maitland Coalfields.

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Australia Day 2010
28 Jan 10 | Photo gallery from Cessnock City's Australia Day celebrations

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Cessnock District Cricket report
03 Feb 10 | All Cessnock District Cricket matches were washed out last weekend except for two games played at Miller Park.
Cessnock bowler Sam Clough on national selection panel
03 Feb 10 | Cessnock's Sam Clough will join Bowls Australia’s three-strong national selection team through to the Delhi Commonwealth Games.  | Cessnock bowler Michael Cronin ... | Bellbird bowler Ryan Collins ...
Civil wedding ceremonies on the rise
A special feature on wedding trends in the Hunter Valley.
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Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uranium
8:47 AM AEDT | BEIRUT: In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ordered the nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent purity to serve as fuel for a Tehran medical reactor.
Q: Do you approve of using 1080 to bait foxes on rural properties?

yes
(13.9%)

no
(86.1%)

Total Votes: 194
Poll Date: 22 July, 2009
An insider's view: David Wilson should have been saved
9:00 AM AEDT | Former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans is the key to the truth on why the Keating government wasted five chances to bring kidnapped Australian David Wilson home alive from Cambodia in 1994.
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