THOUGH he lost his middle stump for the second time in three days, Phil Hughes was at the heart of a much-improved Australian batting effort with a commanding 78 in the second innings of the tour game against Sussex.

ENERGYAUSTRALIA is poised to build a new substation on the former Shortland County Council site in central Maitland as part of a $160 million capital works program for the city.

A MELBOURNE disc jockey who downloaded 227,411 pornographic images of children, some as young as five, has been jailed after being caught up in an Interpol investigation. The County Court heard that Andrew Van Rossum, 34,

ILLAWARRA products Mile Sterjovski and Ruben Zadkovich could be in line for a dream appearance at Wembley Stadium after helping Derby County to the quarter-finals of the Carling Cup.

VIGO COUNTY on the western border of Indiana is the ultimate bellwether area, luring political pundits from across America because of its uncanny ability to predict the outcome of presidential elections.