Bretten Lord plays troubled teenager Tom, whose father has died, and Alan Gibson portrays the park ranger he befriends in Lad: A Yorkshire Story. Photograph: Chris Hodgson
One after another, the viewersâ comments pile on the praise: âA great work of art that will stand the test of time. True, honest, raw but beautiful, just as the Dales and the people who inhabit themâ, âa little gemâ and âWill become a classic!â
The public response to the film
Lad: A Yorkshire Story is looking very good. But for director Dan Hartley it has been a long wait for audience approval on this scale. In fact his film may well classify as the slowest rolling snowball hit of all time.
Travellercomplaining of the high cost of tourist facilities and services in Australia compared with most overseas destinations. The reason for the difference, is that Australian wages are among the highest in the world, so costs in Australia are much higher than in most popular overseas tourist destinations. These higher wages mean that Australians are able to afford all these foreign attractions. If wages in Australia were reduced, prices in Australia would drop, but so would our incomes and most would be unable to afford Australian or overseas tourist facilities.
Jeremy Grant, Somers, VIC
SITE FOR SORE EYES
When restrictions eased for Victorians last year we decided to visit Emerald Beach in NSW to inspect our rental property and have a well-earned holiday. We decided to take our caravan and relax in the Big4 Emerald Beach park. I rang to book a site, finding one powered site left. We were so lucky? The price was $150.70 per night minimum seven night stay. We could only stay fi
Sinkhole on West Coast a wake-up call
27 Jan, 2021 10:02 PM
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The sinkhole which opened on the West Coast. Photo / Supplied
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By: Hugh Collins
The emergence of a sinkhole on a West Coast street is a wake-up call for the rest of the country.
A man at the Brunner Workingmen s Club exposed an underground cavern with a shovel in Dobson near Greymouth on the weekend.
He was able to jump out of the way before a five-metre hole opened.
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Covid 19 Coronavirus: Low risk for hundreds at Ruakākā beach volleyball festival last week
25 Jan, 2021 12:51 AM
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Hundreds of people were in Ruakākā Beach for a beach volleyball tournament from January 19 to 24. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Hundreds of people were in Ruakākā Beach for a beach volleyball tournament from January 19 to 24. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Hundreds of athletes from around New Zealand were at a national beach volleyball festival in Ruakākā last week, when the country s latest Covid case visited the beachside town in Northland.
About 300 players participated in the Ruakākā Beach Bash, a week-long series of beach volleyball championships that took place from January 19 to 24.
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Peter Mahoney s tale of pistol training for Commonwealth Bank tellers in the 1970s (C8) reminded Peter Moran of Oak Flats of a mate of his, who was a young bank teller in that era, who told of driving the accountant at his branch, armed with a pistol, from Kiama to Warrawong (about 30km) to collect a large cash top-up on pension day. The ad-hoc armoured car? A Mini Minor.
More tales of subterranean Sydney (C8) from Allan Gibson of Cherrybrook. In one of Granny’s former homes , once The Wales House, there was a trapdoor in the branch accountant s office on the ground floor, which when opened, revealed the depths of the Tank Stream. And then there was the gold tunnel which went from Central Railway to the basement of the Bank of New South Wales at Railway Square, where the furnace was located.