9:27 AM AEDT | FRIENDS of a local businessman and rally driver killed while racing in Adelaide on Thursday say the 60-year-old died doing what he loved. Gary Tierney and co-driver David Carra died instantly when their 1974 Porsche hit a tree on the first day of the four-day Classic Adelaide rally. The duo’s car skidded off a right-hand bend and struck a tree in Norsworthy Road, Forreston, about 40km north east of the city.

9:23 AM AEDT | GALE-FORCE winds brought down a 12-metre branch on an Epsom House yesterday, narrowly missing a mother and her two children. Wind speeds of up to 61km hit Bendigo at 1.30pm and left Epsom’s Paula Ellis counting her blessings. Ms Ellis said she noticed the storm coming in and thought it looked like “tornado weather”.

9:25 AM AEDT | PARAMEDICS have revealed that lives are being put at risk because some of Bendigo’s busiest buildings cannot be accessed by ambulance. The revelation comes only days after paramedics had to carry their equipment from an ambulance to attend a car crash in the Bendigo Marketplace undercover car park. A 16-year-old girl had to be taken to hospital.

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9:22 AM AEDT | ACCORDING to Jasmine Finnigan’s teammates at the Bendigo Spirit, she is like a fine wine getting better with age. And no definition could be more true, with the 31-year-old forward having the season of her career and she doesn’t intend on slowing down.

9:29 AM AEDT | HOMEGROWN teenage basketball star Kerryn Harrington feels like she is back where she belongs after signing with the Bendigo Bank Spirit. The 17-year-old, who left the Australian Institute of Sport last week near the end of her two-year scholarship, will be part of the Spirit side that meets the Sydney Uni Flames at the Schweppes Centre tomorrow.