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Jury access to priors `prejudicial to accused'

4:00 AM | ALLOWING a jury to see an accused person's prior convictions would be a miscarriage of justice, Tasmanian Law Society president Frank Moore said.

News - General

Temco to power into future

4:00 AM | After a three-month shutdown while its future was reviewed, BHP's Temco smelter at George Town will restart operations.

News - General

Hawks honour 2500 kids who care for loved ones

4:00 AM | TEENAGERS Bobby and Rachel Mater manage to fit school, adolescence, leisure and caring for their mother Claire into one day, every day.

News - General

Student check 4 times a day

4:00 AM | BROOKS High School is checking student attendance four times a day to combat students skipping class.

News - Education

Corby granted five year cut off sentence

4:00 AM | JAKARTA _ Schapelle Corby has been granted a five-year cut to her prison term, paving the way for her early release.

News - Crime and Law

FT duty is being met, says Green

4:00 AM | THE state government says it is meeting its legal obligations as owner of Forestry Tasmania, following Greens' claims the business appeared to be operating insolvent.

News - Environment

Hodgman pledge to public servants

4:00 AM | NO public sector worker would be sacked under a Liberal Tasmanian government, but 650 jobs would go over the next three years.

News - General

Family calls for help to find much loved pet

4:00 AM | SOMETHING more than just a puppy is missing from the Laycocks' home since their little English Staffy Bruno disappeared.

News - General

Savings in health one-off: Liberals

4:00 AM | A SIGNIFICANT amount of the $75 million saved by the state's health services this financial year was one-off savings, according to Health Minister Michelle O'Byrne.

News - General

Greens proposal to promote Tasmanian products

4:00 AM | A ``PRODUCED in Tasmania'' brand and a ``wellbeing index'' would be developed if the state budget was delivered by a Greens treasurer.

News - Politics

Faculty of arts to slash schools

4:00 AM | THE University of Tasmania Council has approved cutting the number of schools in its faculty of arts from 10 to three.

News - General

MPs resist suspension for Thomson

4:00 AM | CANBERRA - Federal MP Craig Thomson faces several inquiries and could be censured by Parliament, but key independent MPs won't back a push to suspend him because it would deny the former unionist natural justice.

News - General

Dad's illness the inspiration for auction and barbecue

4:00 AM | EAST Launceston resident Claire Doran waved from the corner of a busy Launceston cafe yesterday to attract attention.

News - General

Imaginative performances praised by adjudicator

4:00 AM | AN ELDERLY woman lost her temper and bashed a computer screen with an umbrella at the Launceston Competitions.

News - General

Musician speaks of son's disease struggle

4:00 AM | FORMER Violent Femmes band member Brian Ritchie yesterday shared for the first time publicly the story of his son who lives with cystic fibrosis.

News - General

Unhappy MLCs to pass budget

4:00 AM | MOST Legislative Councillors will give the state budget the green light, but that didn't stop them airing their criticisms of the state government's financial management yesterday.

News - General

Housing Tasmania fire deliberately lit: police

4:00 AM | POLICE believe a fire that destroyed a $150,000 Housing Tasmania property at George Town was deliberately lit.

News - General

Students aim to work together to build a better city

4:00 AM | WORKING together to make Launceston a great place to live is the aim of The Care Factor program launched at Queechy High School yesterday.

News - General

Liberals question need for head of library services

4:00 AM | THE state opposition has questioned the need to hire a new director of the state's library services.

News - General

More jail for siege prisoners

4:00 AM | A RISDON inmate who held two prison guards hostage and threatened to kill them during an eight-hour siege last year will spend up to another 18 months in jail.

News - General