RETIREE Simon from Sawtell reckons he’s got another year of providing free food to the hungry of Coffs Harbour. For the past nine months he’s been giving away hot sausage snacks from a table he sets up on the pavement alongside the Woollies car park in the city. Advertise with News of

TO mark Breast Cancer Awareness month this October local breast cancer survivor paddling club, Dragons Abreast Coffs Coast, is holding a Field of Women event. It is a visual display of pink lady and blue men silhouettes symbolising the over 20,000 Australians diagnosed with breast cancer each year. Advertise with News of

SENIOR swimmers have been shocked by the increase in the price of admission to Coffs Harbour’s War Memorial Olympic Pool. One couple, aged 87 and 85, returned home after a few weeks away to find the price of their daily swim had increased from $4 to $4.60. Advertise with News of The

BUS STOP Films’ Accessible Film Studies Program has completed its first short film, a comedy called Go Your Own Way. Bus Stop Films, the award-winning social enterprise film school and production company, in partnership with TAFE NSW, has been working with nine students since it began in February 2024. Advertise with News

FED up nurses and midwives at Baringa Private Hospital are “anxiously awaiting” news of an interim pay rise, after their union agreed to negotiate with the NSW Government. The Nurses and Midwives Association has accepted an offer of a three percent increase to call-off rolling strike action, pending further talks and