31 Dec 98 | For several years Cathy Freeman has been the darling of the Christmas carnivals.
31 Dec 98 | Victorian skipper John Geist of Ruthless attributed yesterday's win in Australia's oldest ocean racing competition _ the Rudder Cup Series _ to a fast trip over in the Melbourne-to- Devonport race.
31 Dec 98 | Police have asked all owners of red or maroon XD Falcon sedans with yellow stripes to come forward in the wake of the armed robbery of the Longford Trust Bank on Tuesday.
31 Dec 98 | The festive season is in full swing and, with New Year's Eve tonight, Tasmania's Road Safety Task Force has debunked a range of myths about alcohol and driving.
31 Dec 98 | Three brothers, three boats, one race. That's how it started on Boxing Day in Sydney for the brothers Clougher _ Justin, Gerard and Matthew.
31 Dec 98 | One of Tasmania's most respected sailors fought back tears yesterday as he told how his skipper and great mate had died in his arms as the ocean raged around them in the ill-fated Sydney-to- Hobart yacht race.
30 Dec 98 | Victorian yacht Prowler smashed the Melbourne-to- Devonport yacht race record by almost 40 minutes when it sped across the finish line at the mouth of the Mersey River yesterday.
30 Dec 98 | Trophies were swapped for tears to mark the winning boat in the Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race at Constitution Dock yesterday.
30 Dec 98 | The World Education Fellowship should develop a caravan of human-rights education specialists to travel to different countries, international president Professor Shinjo Okuda said in Launceston yesterday.
30 Dec 98 | Police were last night hunting a man who threatened staff and customers with a baseball bat during a brazen armed robbery of the Longford Trust Bank yesterday morning.
30 Dec 98 | The surviving crew of the stricken Sydney-to- Hobart yacht Business Post Naiad are trying to get the same flight back to Tasmania, anxious not to leave each other after their horrific ordeal.
30 Dec 98 | The bodies of Winston Churchill crewmen James Lawler and Michael Bannister were recovered yesterday before the search for missing shipmate John Dean was abandoned.
29 Dec 98 | The Local Government Board will have to make a swift decision on whether Launceston should retain its three electoral districts for the March local government election.
29 Dec 98 | Premier Jim Bacon said at last night's Devonport Carnival official supper that his Government was keen to support events that are uniquely Tasmanian, attract interest in the State, and which are responsive to modern trends.
29 Dec 98 | Burnie's Emma Marshall beat home a class field including world champion Cathy Freeman to add to her previous Burnie and Latrobe gift wins.
29 Dec 98 | Police search and rescue members said yesterday afternoon that there was little chance of finding alive a 25-year-old Scottsdale man missing since Sunday afternoon.
29 Dec 98 | Bruce Guy and Phil Skeggs were neighbours in a quiet cul-de-sac at Riverside.
29 Dec 98 | Two Launceston sailors are dead and an English yachtsman feared drowned as the biggest maritime rescue operation in Australia's history plucked more than 50 Sydney- to-Hobart yachtsmen from the Tasman Sea yesterday.
28 Dec 98 | LONDON _ A rush by English cricket counties to sign Australians as captains has provoked a backlash from England skipper Alec Stewart and his cohorts Mike Atherton and Graham Gooch.
28 Dec 98 | A gruelling training regime on Hobart's Mt Wellington paid off for Hobart cyclist Paul Atkinson last night when he won the 1998 Launceston Wheelrace.
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