Voice of Byron

BAY FM’S Creating a Community Newsroom team headed by William Martin featured as winners in the Walkley Grants for Innovation in Journalism.

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AUSTRALIAN MUSIC fans are rallying against the Turnbull Government’s plan to hike up Entertainment Visa processing fees by up to 600 per cent, after concerns were raised about how the changes might affect the ability of international acts to tour Australia.

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PRESIDENT OF the Byron Bay Boardriders Club, Neil Cameron has publically supported the introduction of shark nets as per NSW Premier Baird’s announcement last week.

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IF YOU’VE been on Facebook recently, you might well have seen a status update that warns users that their entire Facebook history will become public unless they copy and paste the message onto their own page.

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TWO POLICE officers have been charged after an incident near Lismore in April.

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AT SOME point in your life, you probably had to measure something using a measuring tape. Whether you were checking to see if a couch would fit in your living…

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AUSTRALIAN HEALTH authorities are reviewing the case for fluoride in drinking water amid concerns scientific evidence supporting the benefits and risks to people’s health may have shifted.

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NEW SOUTH Wales Premier Baird has announced Far North Coast beaches will get shark nets after another surfer was attacked by a shark at Sharpes Beach, north of Ballina.

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THE ACCC’S Scamwatch is warning investors to beware of binary trading scams that lure you in with the opportunity to make money through asset price movement. So far this year Australians have lost $3 million to these scammers.

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