**It’s been a fatality-free long-weekend on roads across the New England and north west.
Police say while motorists have been relatively well behaved they’re still disappointed with the amount of drink driving offences recorded.
**Toomelah residents are preparing to make their silver screen debut at the Sydney Film Festival.
Several have starred in a locally-made film that deals with a range of issues affecting indigenous communities.
**In sport, ten rugby union players from the New England and Central North have been selected in the country schoolboys side.
The team will play a series of trial matches in the hope of being selected in the New South Wales Schoolboys side.
**And Tamworth’s Kieren Lewis has taken out one of the main events in the annual Tamworth cycling two day tour.
