Ryan Blitzes Burnie Rivals In 10km Race

BULLI'S teenage running sensation Ryan Gregson became the youngest winner in the history of Australia's premier 10km road race, the Tasmanian Burnie 10, on Sunday.

Former Chaplain Convicted

A CATHOLIC priest who had worked in the Illawarra has been sentenced to four years' jail for sexually molesting three young boys at Marist College in Burnie, Tasmania, nearly 40 years ago.

Charity Runner In For Long Hard Slog

LIKE many fellow Tasmanians seeking respite from the winter chill, Burnie's Vlastik Skvaril packed his bags last month and headed for the Queensland coast.

My Honda Accord - Alan Clark

This retired fitter and turner from Burnie, Tasmania, drives a 2005 Honda Accord V6.

Burnie Awaits Arrival Of Boonie And Buddies

CAN you change the name of a town just for a day? When David Boon arrives in the Tasmanian town of Burnie during his 20-day charity walk, which departs from the MCG on Tuesday, he might find the town renamed Boonie. The walk leaves Melbourne and finishes in Hobart, but Boonie and co won't be walking on water. "We're getting a boat across and I'm sure we'll have a few beers," serial charity walker Dean Jones said. "Then we're driving to Burnie, which they're trying to get renamed to Boonie for the ...

Good Science Is No Fiction

IN a time when frocks or footballers garner attention, it's encouraging to know that 900 people attended the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes rewarding outstanding science at the Hordern Pavilion on Tuesday night. Ann Burke, Marist Regional College, Burnie, Tasmania, took out the inaugural Holmes a Court Prize for science teaching. Last year, Divonne Holmes a Court, inspired by vice-chancellor of Macquarie University Di Yerbury's speech on the ability of teachers to encourage students' curiosity, ...

Gift Treble Puts Ross In Running To Realise Athens Dream

NEWCASTLE sprinter Josh Ross has an eye on the Athens Olympics after blitzing the field to win the coveted Burnie Gift in Tasmania on Thursday night.

Burnie Road-kill Enlivens Debate On Tasmania And Foxes

A young female fox has been found dead by the side of the road in Burnie - but an end to the argument of whether Tasmania has foxes is no nearer.

Rural Press Offer For Paper

REGIONAL media group Rural Press Ltd has its eyes on gaining control of one of Tasmania's main daily newspapers, the Burnie Advocate, as part of a $47.6 million takeover bid.

Tassie Falls To Bonham

TASMANIA'S championship was won by Kevin Bonham who defeated the other 18 contenders with a picket fence 6/6 score in Burnie.

Ecological Picture

ANIMAL David Burnie, ed Dorling Kindersley 620pp, $89.95 THIS marvellous volume lives up to its billing as `The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife'. Profiling more than 2000 mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates, the book, edited by David Burnie under the watchful eyes of 70 zoologists and naturalists, is undoubtedly accurate in every detail.

Ansett Increases Flights

ANSETT has increased its services from Melbourne to Sydney with 17 return flights on weekdays, 14 on Saturday and 15 on Sunday. The carrier also flies to Perth twice daily and to Brisbane via Sydney. Kendell Airlines is covering Melbourne routes to Albury, Burnie, Canberra, Devonport, King Island, M

Caution Before Aggression

I HAVE had money invested in a Westpac Approved Deposit Fund since 1992 but the fund has not been performing as well as I had hoped. I am interested in rolling the money over to either the RBF or the Commonwealth Bank's Growth Fund. SH, Burnie BY RBF, I suspect you mean the Tasmanian Governme

Hellyer Tailings Project Go-ahead

The cash-rich but project-hungry Dominion Mining is to pick up the running on a possible $90 million project based on the retreatment of tailings at the Western Metals' near-exhausted Hellyer polymetallic mine, 50 kilometres south of Burnie in Tasmania. Contained metal in the tailings is estima

Tasmania's Heroes

I found Johnny Greening, Collingwood's 19-year-old prodigy in the 1970 grand final, through the Cooee Football Club in northern Tasmania. Cooee is a thin slip of sand on Burnie's western side. Its football team doesn't exist any more, but its former great, Harold "Tiger" Dowling, cer

Driving Charges

A SYDNEY woman was committed at Maitland Local Court yesterday to stand trial on a charge of negligent driving causing death. Charlein Iris Howe, 57, of Burnie St, Blacktown, is charged with driving negligently on December 28 last year at Belford near Singleton, causing the death of Sandra Chiper

And The Lord Sayeth, 'are You Mad?'

WHAT'S going on with mayors? First this guy in Coffs Harbour is agreeing with white supremacist loonies, and now the Mayor of Burnie, Tasmania, has resigned in a story which involves messages from God, jogging around a building seven times because of biblical significance, and a plan for a Christian

New Fast Ferry To Burnie On Cards

The odds are strengthening that a new fast ferry service between Victoria and Tasmania will start operating from Western Port Bay next summer. The private service would run between Stony Point on the Mornington Peninsula and Burnie in northern Tasmania. It would operate against or replace the

Steak Knife And Chips Row

A 59-year-old Queensland woman stabbed her boyfriend with a steak knife because he wouldn't send back an extra bowl of chips which arrived with their meal, a court heard in Burnie, Tasmania. Instead of completing a 10-day fly-drive holiday in Tasmania, widower Brian King, also 59, spent the next

Poll Aftermath

Chris Miles, Braddon, Tasmania ``Nothing went wrong, we won government, that's the main game. In Tasmania there is an economic malaise and the Burnie pulp mill issue was pretty debilitating. The GST was obviously a component, but we know from our research that the Burnie mill issue was a major