Last Top Stories: Butterflies back in form in Premier League

• Butterflies back in form in Premier League

  

  Wrap of Saturday's play in the Bendigo Tennis Association Premier League.BLTC Quest's Rebecca Tweed. Pictured: NONI HYETTSPRING Gully Butterflies were back in form as they beat Bendigo Lawn Rising in Saturday’s eighth round of the Bendigo Tennis Association’s Premier League season.A hard-fought contest between the pacesetters in the Quest Apartments-backed league was played at Bendigo Lawn Tennis Club in Barnard Streeet.The Butterflies won the opening three doubles matches, but Rising hit back a..

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• Car drives at police

  

  Car driven at police in StrathdaleByJASON WALLSNov. 29, 2015, 3 p.m.Police are appealing for witnesses after a car was driven straight at them on Sunday morning.An unknown person drove a car directly at police investigating a hoon driving complaint in Strathdale on Sunday morning.Sergeant Mick McCrann of the Bendigo Highway Patrol said police in an unmarked vehicle were attending an address in Sibley Place at about 10.20am when they saw the white Subaru wagon take off at speed.“When they attempt..

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• Simon says Spirit level was 'pathetic'

  

  Leilani Mitchell ... on Simon Pritchard’s radar. Picture: Dylan CokerBENDIGO WNBL coach Simon Pritchard labelled his team’s performance when it lost here to Adelaide earlier this month as “pathetic and disgraceful”.The Lightning won 76-68 at The Lighthouse, scene of Sunday afternoon’s rematch, but the Spirit limped in after beating the Lynx in Perth and never matched Adelaide’s intensity.“Seriously, we were lazy and complacent,” said Pritchard, who knows the Adelaide scene well as a former Light..

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• State of the nation | Sunday, November 29, 2015

  

  Bendigo Advertiser .... Bendigo taxi driver's horror night · Redesdale pub back in business · Joy and Joyce's 90 ... Sporting pictures from around Bendigo.

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• Joy and Joyce's 90 adventurous years

  

  Joy and Joyce’s 90 adventurous yearsByJASON WALLSNov. 29, 2015, noonTwins celebrate a 90 year 'wonderful journey' of family and adventure.Joy and Joyce’s 90 adventurous yearsTwin sisters Joy McIntosh and Joyce Loveless. Pictures: NONI HYETTTwin sisters Joy McIntosh and Joyce Loveless. Pictures: NONI HYETTTwin sisters Joy McIntosh and Joyce Loveless. Pictures: NONI HYETTTwin sisters Joy McIntosh and Joyce Loveless with great-grand kids Hailey and Riley Davidson who are also twins. Pictures: NONI ..

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• #GreatVic Bike Ride day one | Your photos

  

  More than 3000 cyclists set off from Victoria Park for day one of the Great Victorian Bike Ride today.#GreatVic Bike Ride day one | Your photos@blakeoh86: Team @theracv on day 1 of the#GreatVic@bthomps22: Day 2. Made it to Avoca. 76km done. @theracv #GreatVic@toorak_college: #greatvic First rest stop@richobicycle: #GreatVic thanks so much vollies for the lunch - you legend@richobicycle: #GreatVic riders ready to flood Avoca campsite - 13 mins to go‏@bthomps22: 50km and lunch done at 9:30! @thera..

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• WNBL: Dandenong Rangers, Melbourne Boomers score key wins...

  

  Dandenong Rangers coach Larissa Anderson predicts a bright future for her side if they can maintain the defensive approach and energy from their upset win over Sydney University Flames on Saturday night.The Flames opened the round on top of the WNBL ladder but couldn't match the Rangers, winning 85-65 despite being without two key players in injured duo Aimie Clydesdale and Alex Bunton.Rangers captain Steph Cumming led the way with 23 points but more impressive were the  six and more points from..

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• Echuca district netballers deal with new age category

  Netball Victoria has altered the format from 17 and Under and Open ages to 15 and Under and 19 and Under, to ensure the tournament better lines up with its own state league senior pathways from 19 and Under and 21 and Under. The six-week elite interleague competition has always had an EDNA presence, according to EDNA president betty McCoomb. ‘‘Our under 17 side are the current winners from 2014 but the 2015 competition didn’t go ahead due to lack of numbers in that a..

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• More to selecting political background music than indiscriminate...

  

  Cold Chisel's Ian Moss and Jimmy Barnes.Photo: SuppliedIt is generally held that the emergence of right-wing bigoted groups such as the Reclaim Australia and United Patriot Front is about as welcome as herpes.It's true, certainly, that mobs of flag-draped knuckle-draggers are unlikely to improve the level of political debate in Melton or Bendigo. However, perhaps it says something reassuringly fundamental about the strength of Australian tolerance that one of the main strands of argument emergin..

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• AFL second life: How one company saw the post-football potential in...

  

  While Robbie Hicks was enrolled in a business course at university, his mind was understandably stationed on football. In addition to his responsibilities with Richmond, Hicks also had to train at Coburg, the club's VFL affiliate."On my day off, I wasn't motivated to go to uni at all," Hicks says. "I just wanted to switch off, do nothing and act like an 18-year-old kid."There is a period where you go through a sort of post-AFL syndromeDaniel HarrisHicks was just trying to live out his dream. A g..

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