BROTHERS APPROACHED IN WAUCHOPE

Police are appealing for information, after two brothers were approached by a man in Wauchope.

The boys, aged eight and nine, got off their school bus on Homestead Drive at around 3:30 on Thursday afternoon and began walking home.

As they approached Colonial Circuit, a man near a dark four wheel drive beckoned them to get in his car, but they ran home.

He’s described as elderly with grey hair, and was wearing black pants and a black shirt at the time.

MISSING TODDLER FOUND

A two-year-old boy who wandered away from his mother into bushland on the mid-north coast has been found alive and well.

The full-scale search was turned down last night and was set to resume at daybreak.

However at about 1.15am this morning volunteers found the boy in the dense bushland.

Two-year-old Tyler was with his mother at a mechanic’s workshop at Johns River at around 10:30 this morning, when he wandered off into nearby bushland.

He was checked by NSW Ambulance Paramedics and taken to Port Macquarie Hospital as a precaution.

WEATHER UPDATE: CHILLY WEEKEND

A slow moving, deep low is now spiralling over the Tasman producing a solid swell which will build overnight moving up the coast on Saturday. Combined with the cold, westerly winds will make for an epic weekend of waves up and down the coast for surf lovers.

The air mass is dry so low humidity levels are expected. The lack of moisture in the air allows the temperature to fall quickly once the sun goes down. On the bright side it also helps with day time heating.

Inland morning frosts will become a feature across the weekend.

There is a significant inland rain event brewing, we’ll check that first thing next week.

HUNDREDS ATTEND GLOUCESTER CSG MEETING

The Gloucester community turned out in overwhelming numbers last night, for a public meeting to discuss AGL’s coal seam gas project.

NBN News was barred from recording the meeting, with a ‘media protocol’ agreed to as part of the company’s participation.

AGL: GLOUCESTER’S PUBLIC MEETING

More than 300 people packed Gloucester Soldier’s Club last night, for a public meeting about AGL’s coal seam gas project.

The company’s Group General Manager Mike Moraza attended the meeting – on one condition – that no live recording takes place.

At the start of the meeting, television news cameras were asked to cease recording.

A local resident put forward a motion to allow recording to continue, but despite receiving overwhelming support, AGL stuck by its media protocol.

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NEVER GIVING UP ON A DREAM

A Central Coast teenager has well and truly bounced back, from an early setback in life.

Eric Barrett only learned to walk at age 12 through a sheer willingness to succeed… now, two years later, he’s helping to coach his local basketball team.

$2.4M BLACK SPOT FUNDING

The Federal Government has committed more than $2.4-million in its budget to fix four sections of the Pacific Highway in the Lyne electorate.

The on-off ramp at Purfleet has been allocated $900,000, while a section of Highway just south of Possums Brush will receive $550,000.

Stills Road to the Oxley Highway at Port Macquarie, as well as Crescent Head Road are also set to benefit.

The sites, which were identified as accident black spots by an independent road safety panel, should be upgraded in the next 12 months.

WEATHER UPDATE: ICY COLD NIGHTS

Cold westerly winds have settled in thanks to a slow moving low sitting over the SE delivering snow to the highlands while pumping cold air north across the region.

The days will warm thanks to lengthy sunny periods but there is a lot of high level cloud making its way across the country blocking some of that daytime heating. That cloud will clear over the next 24 to 48 hours making for a predominantly sunny end to the week.

The nights are going to become very cold, especially across the higher ground thanks to moderate to strong westerly winds. As they ease the cold air will sink into the low lying valleys producing freezing night time temperatures so frosts will become a feature over the next week.

Once the low moves into the Tasman a new swell is going to build pushing north up the coast. This combined with the SW winds will make for some pretty epic waves in the southern corners and point breaks across the weekend and into early next week.

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WEATHER UPDATE: RAIN, BUT NOT ENOUGH

A large rain band has passed producing up to 20mm in the far west near Narrabri but generally totals were less than 10mm.

The rain was widespread but the small totals aren’t enough to create run off and will be absorbed quickly with what’s left evaporating due dry westerly winds.

The main feature will now be cold nights producing frosts about the ranges followed by cool sunny days with consistent southerly winds.

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