Gavin Bedggood is playing with house money as his $199,000 gamble Just Folk heads back to the Hawkesbury Cup.

The Wagga and Hawkesbury cups are close to Tyler Schiller’s heart, and he would love to add them to what is shaping as his best season in the saddle.

The waiting is over with Schwarz, and the Stradbroke beckons if he can win Saturday’s Hawkesbury Guineas.

A Commonwealth prosecutor twice raised fears a former immigration detainee would reoffend but did not oppose bail in the months before the man was accused of a brutal home invasion.

The Albanese government wanted the alleged basher of Ninette Simons to remain behind bars, but it cannot escape the political fallout from the fact he was set free.

Carly McBride vanished just before a letter landed on her mother’s doorstep. Had it arrived earlier it could have saved her daughter’s life.