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WHAT'S made news in the past week?&nbsp;Take a look at the photographs taken by Fairfax Media photographers that show what made news over the past seven days around the region.&nbsp;

Taking a look at the news highlights across the region over the past week

BATHURST: Such are the rapidly deteriorating seasonal conditions that David Suttor from historic ‘Brucedale’ on the Sofala Road has just terminated a 250-acre wheat crop. He’s opted out of waiting until harvest and made round bales of hay.

PARKES: Detectives are continuing investigations into an explosion which occurred at Bogan Gate late on Sunday afternoon.

FORBES: Forbes High School captains Isabelle Cowhan, Megan Morrison, Cameron Herbert and Will Dukes lead the White Ribbon Day March carrying the banner.

ORANGE: ORANGE cricket legend Carl Sharpe said cricket players and their families need not worry about freak accidents like the one that left batsman Phil Hughes in an induced coma and the cricketing world reeling on Tuesday afternoon.

COWRA: Two booked out performances of CLIQUE went off without a hitch on the weekend, exploring social boundaries and the need to be accepted.

CANOWINDRA: Canowindra High School Year 12 students have wrapped up thirteen years of schooling, celebrating at their graduation recently.

ORANGE: Orange City councillor Ron Gander demands changes to the council’s bulky waste collection scheme as rotting rubbish lines the city streets for weeks on end.

GRENFELL: Between October 20, 2014 and October 31, 2014, the students of Caragabal Public School held a School Read-a-Thon and raised $662.60 in extra funding.

PARKES: The new owners of Pink Orchid café de Flowers are combining the best of both worlds under their Bushman Street roof and the result is a delight to the senses.

ORANGE: White Ribbon Day was the catalyst for Orange to reflect on its poor record of domestic violence, which is more than double the state average.

FORBES: As Kirrily Dear ran the last few metres of her epic 860km ultramarathon, her sobs of pure relief could be heard as she crossed the Newell Highway and made her way to Forbes Police Station where she was greeted by family, friends and the local police.

COWRA: Despite having a long way to go in his own boxing career, Cowra's Steve Lovett said he wouldn't rule out a future in coaching after getting a taste of it at the Cowra PCYC recently.

ORANGE: Orange City councillor Russell Turner stepped up his crusade to help Orange secure Terrance Plowright’s work Uniting A Nation by visiting the artist at his Blue Mountains workshop on the weekend and reiterating Orange’s desire to house the $1 million work.

PARKES: Even machinery dealers are getting into the spirit of the Chamber of Commerce “Parkes sparkles” Christmas campaign by lighting up some of their large items of equipment.

FORBES: Workshop manager at Complete Insite Solutions Luke Van Der Weiden said this is one of the worst viruses he has ever seen and one of the most heartbreaking as personal files and photographs are affected.

CALARE: Calare Public School students can be proud of their parents, teachers and other staff members who gave 62 blood donations in five months to win Calare the Australian Red Cross Blood Service’s 2014 Orange Primary School Blood Challenge.

COWRA: Week six of Little Athletics will be an afternoon not forgotten by under 9's age group member Bailey Beale who threw an incredible 26.09m in his discus event, breaking a longstanding twelve year record.

BATHURST: Jessica Small’s mother Ricki reads through a letter from Police Minister Stuart Ayres confirming a $100,000 reward would be offered for information leading to a conviction in the 17-year mystery of her daughter’s abduction and murder. Photo CHRIS SEABROOK 112614cjess2

BATHURST: Fire Brigade Employees Union country sub branch representative Tim Anderson is unhappy Kelso fire station was taken offline on Sunday when conditions were so extreme that a total fire ban had been called across the region. Photo BRIAN WOOD 112414fire2

MUDGEE: What remains of the Lovett’s Lodge roof can be seen spread over the two paddocks behind the house after high winds tore through Mudgee on Monday.

BATHURST: A helicopter was brought in to water bomb a fire burning near Mount Rankin this week. Photo: BRIAN WOOD

BATHURST: A parent brings out cold water to the Bathurst U12’s team members in the Blue Mountains versus Lithgow match at Morse Park on Sunday. Photo CHRIS SEABROOK 112314csnap

BATHURST: Bathurst man Ben Urquhart (left) drowned at Ben Chifley Dam on Saturday evening. Photo: Rapid Relief Team Facebook page

BATHURST: Cherry orchardist Russ McCarthy says recent warm, dry weather has ensured a bumper crop of cherries this year. He is among local stone fruit growers revelling in good growing conditions. Photo PHILL MURRAY

BATHURST: Family Violence Awareness Group vice chair Temeka Jones, member Yasmin Dowling and treasurer Annelie Watt join other members in erecting cut-outs at Carrington Park to mark White Ribbon Day. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK

BATHURST: Jack and Jess from Xenomorphic were among the performers at the Bathurst Youth Council’s Summersault event in Machattie Park on Sunday. Photo CHRIS SEABROOK 112314csault1

MUDGEE: A crane raises the damaged vehicle following a crash on the Castlereagh Highway south of Mudgee on Saturday.

MUDGEE: Tyla James doing his best to escape Sunday’s extreme heat by going for a dip. Photo: COL BOYD

MUDGEE: Emergency service crews investigate the remnants and the Men’s Shed after a fire ripped through the building on Tuesday. Photo: MUDGEE LAC.

MUDGEE: Students from Mudgee Preschool get up close to a helicopter.

LITHGOW: Harris Thompson and Crystal Ogden tend their garden at Portland Central. lm111014central2

LITHGOW: Kindergarten’s Aleese Thompson in action at Cooerwull School.

OBERON: A very proud Ray Styants celebrates his 90th birthday with his twin daughters, Debbie and Julie.

DUBBO: There were Japanese drummers, a tea ceremony and floating lanterns at Shoyoen on Friday to mark the 12th anniversary of the Japanese gardens in Dubbo. Picture are First Dubbo Scout Group. Back: Will Browne and Rupert Morgan. Front: Matthaus King and Ben Pepper. Photo: GREG KEEN

DUBBO: Women spent two days at the weekend learning how to mentally and physically prepare themselves for a bush fire at the Women with Flair workshops. Pictured is Sharon Balmer using a portable pump while Helena Patriarca, Ani Langbien, Heidy Steppat, Sue Lomax, Alison Oliven and Ann Myes supervise. Photo: GREG KEEN.

DUBBO: Graffiti plastered on the full pipe of Dubbo's skate park, which was once again hit by vandals in an attack Dubbo mayor Mathew Dickerson has called disappointing. Photo BELINDA SOOLE

DUBBO: It is exactly 11 weeks today since Kibibi was born at Taronga Western Plains Zoo and the hippo calf is growing in both confidence and size. Photo GREG KEEN

DUBBO: Peter Stanford, Peter Kuhner and Gerard O'Leary are excited the Rotary Club of Dubbo Macquarie's chocolate wheel has begun spinning for its 11th consecutive year. Photo GREG KEEN

WELLINGTON: Wellington Public School students tie their balloons and pledges to the fence at school during White Ribbon Day. 

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Dan Berryman and son Charlie. Picture: Les Smith

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Officer Cadet Tom Delaney on the parade ground where he will march on Thursday. Picture by Karleen Minney.

Australian War Memorial parade ground rebuilt in time for Thursday's Anzac Day.

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NSW Health Minister Ryan Park. Picture: AAP 

Health Minister Ryan Park says work is 'ongoing' to deliver long-term solutions.

No respite: Government refuses to commit to funding paediatric clinics

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Each year, 100-year-old Ruth Phillips travels to Melbourne from her Northern NSW home in Gleniffer to celebrate the Jewish festival Passover. Picture supplied

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