Lack of rural doctors angers toddler's family
04 Feb 10 | THE lack of doctors in country towns has angered the family of a toddler who was bitten by a snake while at a Bencubbin daycare centre.
04 Feb 10 | AUSTRALIA Day was celebrated in true Aussie style throughout the Wheatbelt last Tuesday, January 26.
Farewell to caravan park family after 20 years
04 Feb 10 | SUE and Paul Bartlett, the owner-managers of the Merredin Caravan Park and Av-A-Rest Village, retired this week after 20 successful years in business.

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SPORT

Olympic basketballer ‘home’ on Friday
04 Feb 10 | AUSTRALIAN Opals player and 2008 Beijing Olympic silver medalist Tully Bevilaqua, who grew up in Merredin, will visit the town on Friday.
04 Feb 10 | IT IS the time of year again when we begin thinking about getting fit and tackling another year in the Eastern Districts Football League.
Former Merredin man tames gruelling Dakar
ROBERT Pollard, who grew up and went to school in Merredin, has become the first West Australian ...
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Coalition to offer six months off to parents
5:45 AM AWST | A SIX-MONTH scheme of paid parental leave and plans to extend to nannies similar pay and conditions as childcare workers are at the heart of a Coalition policy being designed to woo family and female voters.

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WORLD NEWS

Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uranium
5:47 AM AWST | 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 want Day Light Saving in WA?

YES
(25%)

NO
(75%)

Total Votes: 4
Poll Date: 20 April, 2009
An insider's view: David Wilson should have been saved
6:00 AM AWST | 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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