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ACCC probing News’ ad rates

By NOEL MURPHY AUSTRALIAN Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is investigating allegations the Geelong Advertiser has engaged in predatory pricing activities since the arrival of...

FINALLY FRIDAY: Morning glory

By MICHELLE HERBISON SINGER Rhonda Burchmore responded in valiant style to an online impersonator with a "wicked tongue" posing under her name. The Aussie diva...

New plan targets Avalon corridor

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN A NEW Melbourne Plan has renewed hopes a major logistics facility will be located close to Geelong. The State Government plan recommended...

Newtown ‘top for regional income’

NEWTOWN has retained its Victorian title as the area with the highest average income for its residents outside of Melbourne, according to a new...

JOIN THE CLUB: Donations stitched up

QUILTING and the internet would not seem, at first blush, to be bosom buddies - one a time-honoured craft, the other taking over modern...

Truce called in real estate war

By NOEL MURPHY A BITTER legal fight between The Weekly Review and Geelong real estate agent Hayeswinckle has been settled out of court. The brawl included...

SPORT: Calm settles on hot fishing for snapper on baits and plastics in bays

CALMER conditions last weekend produced plenty of snapper at local cleaning tables. Troy Miller fished off Clifton Springs last Saturday night and all was quiet...

SPORT: Cats’ two-day challenge begins

LAST weekend’s inclement weather cost Geelong Cricket Club the opportunity to come out on the positive side of the ledger from the five one-dayers...

FINALLY FRIDAY: Hopping back on stage

By NOEL MURPHY A GENERATION of rock fans grew up to the strains of Grasshopper belting out '60s and '70s hits on the Geelong pub...

Growing threat raising fire risk

By NOEL MURPHY STRONG fuel growth and difficulties with controlled burns are increasing the region’s summer fire risk, authorities have warned. CFA’s Ian Beswicke said recent...

Splashin’s on the field for Geelong Cup fashionistas

By KATE VALLENCE ANYONE would have been forgiven for wanting to swap a fascinator for a poncho during Fashions on the Field at Wednesday’s Geelong...

JOIN THE CLUB: The art of Port

By JOHN VAN KLAVEREN EVERYONE has an artist inside - and Portarlington’s art group considers itself as proof of the old adage. The group of men...

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Emily visits Geelong West for Good Friday

Geelong West Fire Brigade were paid a special visit by one of this year’s Faces of the Good Friday Appeal. Lara’s Emily Cooke...