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Hell's Angels bikie refused bail over alleged Newtown torching

Emma Partridge A Hell's Angels bikie member accused of torching a police car near his Newtown tattoo parlour will face court on Thursday after he was refused bail at Parramatta Bail Court this morning.

Grunge gives way to gentrification in streets of Newtown

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Adele Horin FIRST came the DINKS - Double Income No Kids - then came the gays. And before you could say ''sea salt'', organic grocers, fusion food, and candle shops had arrived in Newtown.

Tale of two 'burbs as Newtown and Woollahra celebrate

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Damien Murphy ONLY in Sydney could pork pie hats, dreadlocks, tattoos and Bugaboo strollers vie with Gant slacks, Zegna linen jackets, Carla Zampatti creations and Audi four-wheel-drives in the belief they best...

Last stand for Newtown's 'three proud people'

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Josephine Tovey It is a tribute to one of the 20th century's most renowned protests: a mural facing the railway tracks in Newtown showing two black medallists giving a defiant raised-fist salute at the 1968...

Newtown castles saved from state land grab

Kim Arlington THEY faced the prospect of losing their homes to make way for a transport development. But unlike the Kerrigan family in The Castle, the residents of Leamington Avenue, Newtown, were not forced into...

Bashed security guard may have misread alleged break-in

Hans Juergen Schulz was allegedly attacked by Adrian Gallaher at Broadway shopping centre in Sydney.

Pic of licence supplied by Schulz's housemate.

Rachel Olding A SECURITY guard who was allegedly bashed to death by a couple in an inner-city shopping centre may have wrongly assumed they were stealing from an ice-cream kiosk.

Taxi driver in a coma, serial driving offender 'caught drink driving'

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Cabbie suffers life-threatening head injuries during assault, while banned driver blew twice the limit.

Guard killed in shopping centre attack

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Esther Han, Amy Corderoy A couple has been charged with manslaughter and police are searching for another woman after a security guard was allegedly fatally assaulted while trying to stop an attempted break-in at an...

Terror six claim it was fix

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Hamish McDonald A SET-UP BY a foreign intelligence agency and a cover-up by senior federal government officials led to the conviction and jailing of six Australians in Sydney for terrorism, a Herald investigation...

Who are Sydney's anti-cyclist 'TRAFFIC' twins?

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Stephanie Gardiner A Sydney cyclist who says he was punched during a road rage incident in the inner west is using the internet to try to identify his alleged attackers.

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Man's leg amputated after being hit by car

A man has had his leg amputated after he was hit by a car while standing on a footpath in Sydney's inner west.

Man cut into pieces and thrown in river, court hears

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Paul Bibby It was a grisly discovery: the decomposing remains of an adult male carefully wrapped in six blue plastic packages bound with duct tape and wire.

Night life more than alcohol, poll shows

Less drunking partying, more tea and latte sipping ... Sydney chooses night life over alcohol.

Emma Partridge MANY of Sydney's night owls would prefer to peruse open-air markets, sip latte in bookshops and listen to music outdoors than stumble bleary-eyed out of one of the city's many pubs and clubs, a poll...

Dressed up for a dressing down

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Rachel Browne WHAT started as an ill-conceived comment from a Canadian police officer has spawned an international movement that is now on its way to Sydney.

Man charged over murder of journalist 13 years ago

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Nick Ralston and Saffron Howden MORE than 13 years after Jennifer Maree Smith was bashed and left for dead on the streets of Newtown in Sydney's inner west, cold case police have finally made an arrest.

Anti-ink creams fail skin test

Tracey Lien TATTOO removal creams bought over the internet can result in scarring, ugly marks and in some cases can be totally ineffective, doctors warn.

Neighbours air dirty laundry in battle over jacaranda's purple rain

Matthew Moore IT IS a sight guaranteed to stir the senses: a jacaranda tree in all its purple glory.

Battle for Marrickville down to the wire

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Josephine Tovey In a seat it has held for 101 years, Labor will fight a beachhead battle today, with Deputy Premier Carmel Tebbutt under extreme threat from the Greens..

Novel character who knows every trick in the book

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Andrew Stevenson INSIDE Gould's Book Arcade - Sydney's unkempt temple of the printed world - little seems to have changed in decades.

Alcohol outlets in assault spotlight

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Geesche Jacobsen EACH additional alcohol outlet in central Sydney could result in an extra four to five assaults a year, research suggests.