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• Who is Dicky White? From English criminal to Launceston businessman - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  

  Who is Dicky White? From English criminal to Launceston businessmanPostedNovember 06, 2015 18:21:07 In the middle of Launceston is Dicky Whites Lane. The story of how it came to be named starts in England in the late 1700s.Richard 'Dicky' White was thought to be a little down on his luck when he turned to highway robbery, was caught and sentenced to death.While Dicky was in jail waiting for his penalty, his son was born and his wife died, so the authorities showed sympathy and changed the sentence to transportation to Australia.Bill White is a fifth generation descendant of Dicky and said, "We don't know why he was granted that, but we're glad he was."Mr White has gathered about 20 of Di..

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• Music greats give Taste bite

  

  COMING TO THE TASTE: The Black Sorrows.HOBART City Council has upped the ante on entertainment for this year’s Taste festival with five high-profile acts for Tasmania’s largest food and wine event.The council will also today announce former mayor Damon Thomas as the official spokesman for this year’s event, in an apparent thawing of the relationship between Ald Thomas and Lord Mayor Sue Hickey.Organisers will today announce headline acts for the festival that will this year include 92 individual acts, 79 of them Tasmanian, featuring in at least 159 performances across the seven-day event.Headline acts will be:AUSTRALIANrock royalty The Black Sorrows led by Joe Camilleri.TRIPLE Jdarlings The ..

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• Tasmanian Land Conservancy head Jane Hutchinson named...

  

  midlands conservation funding announcement for Midlandscapes project picture af Beaufront property near Ross owned by Julian Von Bibra picture of Jane Hutchinson Chief of Tasmanian Land Conservancy showing grasslandCONSERVATIONIST Jane Hutchinson has been named the 2016 Tasmanian Australian of the Year for her work with the Tasmanian Land Conservancy.Accepting her award at the Henry Jones Art Hotel, Ms Hutchinson acknowledged other finalists – arts champion Annette Downs, Antarctic scientist Dr Nick Gales and actor John Xintavelonis – as “fantastic people who give so much to the community”.“You are all extraordinary,” she said.Ms Hutchinson said she was deeply humbled and surprised to be nom..

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• The growth of adult eating disorders

  Psychologist Loren Byford says older people can feel ashamed of having an eating disorder, which can be a barrier to seeking treatment. Picture: Andrew Tauber. FOR the past 30 years, Betty's diet has stayed the same. Each morning she has a black coffee ...

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• Drug resistant Strep and the return of the scarlet fever

  

  In a study published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from the University of Queensland caution that the surge in scarlet fever cases may pose an unexpected threat.Evolutionis a wonderful thing — it brought us out of the primordial puddle and took us to the Moon, and will hopefully power us to even greater heights. It’s an awesome thing, and I’m a big fan of it. But evolution does tend to have one nasty habit — it never stops, not even for the bugs thatare trying to kill us dead.One of those bugs is group A Streptococcus; it’s the biological vector of scarlet fever, a condition that commonly affects children from 5 to 12. Most of those infected with this bacteria only de..

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