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We’re in for a partly cloudy day, with a medium (50%) chance of showers this morning and afternoon - Bendigo 10, Echuca 12, Maryborough 9, Kyneton 7, Redesdale 10, Castlemaine 9.
There’s also a warning to sheep graziers for the South West, North Central, Central, West and South Gippsland, East Gippsland and North East forecast districts; and a severe weather warning for damaging winds for people in the South West, Central, West and South Gippsland and East Gippsland forecast districts.
Read more on the sheep graziers warning here.
Read more on the severe weather warning here.
Let’s take a look at what has been making news around the region here:
‘We have cried tears of distress and tears of joy’: missing jogger’s family: The family of the university student who went missing during a jog at One Tree Hill has issued a statement. Read it here.
Bendigo land-banking scheme ‘failure’: ASIC: Australia's corporate watchdog has declared that a Bendigo land-banking scheme linked to property spruiker Jamie McIntyre and the sister of the notorious Henry Kaye has "failed", and is seeking to dismiss administrators appointed to a company behind the project. More here.
Car crashes through Epsom yard: An Epsom family’s quiet night was interrupted when a car came crashing through their front yard. More here.
PHOTOS: Beer lovers flock to Bendigo streets: Bendigo beer aficionados were in hops heaven on Saturday for the city’s second winter craft beer festival. More here.
SPORT: Dogs run riot: Golden Square recorded the biggest win in a Bendigo Football League game for nine years on Saturday with its 238-point thumping of Maryborough at MyJet Oval. More here.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the resignation of his Speaker, Bronwyn Bishop, after weeks of furore surrounding her grandiose use of taxpayer-funded travel perks but refused to criticise his long-time "friend and colleague" suggesting that she was a victim of the system. More here
► ILLAWARRA: Northern Illawarra residents fear dogs ‘‘chasing blood’’ could turn on young children or the elderly, following recent attacks that have shocked typically trouble-free communities. More here
► NEWCASTLE: Police were forced to use capsicum spray and a taser stun gun to end a four-hour siege with a man thought to be suffering hallucinations. More here
► BENDIGO: Australia's corporate watchdog has declared that a Bendigo land-banking scheme linked to property spruiker Jamie McIntyre and the sister of the notorious Henry Kaye has "failed", and is seeking to dismiss administrators appointed to a company behind the project. More here
► MAITLAND: A heartbroken family buried their Chihuahua in her favourite garden spot on Sunday just metres from where she had been ripped to pieces by two pitbull-type dogs. More here
► BALLARAT: Two Sebastopol residents escaped without injury after a shot was fired at their garage on Saturday night. More here
► An out of control fire "tore into" properties in the Blue Mountains with flames up to twenty metres high on Sunday night, but no homes were lost, the Rural Fire Service said. More here
► The former head of the powerful National Australia Bank, Cameron Clyne, has weighed into the increasingly toxic debate over Australia's climate change policy with a salvo directed at what he calls the "wilful ignorance and blindness" of political leaders and some sections of the business community. More here
► An Afghan asylum seeker who died on Friday at a West Australian detention centre was dreaming of a better future with his wife and two children, a detainee has said. More here
► In the end, it came down to the helicopter. The mode of transportation that led to Bronwyn Bishop's downfall also led - perhaps inevitably - to digitally-altered pictures of the former Speaker standing on the steps of a helicopter doing the iconic Richard Nixon salute. More here
► REUNION: A new piece of debris was found on a Reunion Island beach about 25 kilometres from where a wing flap suspected of belonging to missing plane MH370 was found last Wednesday. More here
► MALAYSIA: Experts hoping to solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries are set to examine a barnacle-encrusted wing part that washed up on a remote Indian island last Wednesday. But the families of 239 people on board MH370 will have to wait days before they are told whether the wreckage is part of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared almost 17 months ago. More here
► NORTH KOREA: He is a supreme leader of the one of the world's most oppressive regimes, which claims to have recently found a cure for AIDS, Ebola and cancer. But North Korea's Kim Jong-un can now add another feather to his cap after he was singled out for his global statesmanship by an Indonesian organisation that has previously honoured the likes of Nelson Mandela. More here
► EGYPT: An Egyptian court has adjourned until August 29 the verdict in the case against three Al-Jazeera journalists, including Australian Peter Greste, prolonging the fear and uncertainty for the reporters and their families. More here
When Douglass Doherty, of Wynyard, served on American ship USNS Comfort during the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991), Australia didn't have a floating hospital like it.
A contingent was deployed from Australia to serve on the ship, which gave unfettered access to soldiers wounded or injured in the battles.
As a naval operating theatre technician, Doherty saw at close quarters and in graphic terms the trauma of war.
The amateur theatre buff and his wife Maureen said they felt compelled to self-fund their own upcoming Burnie theatre production of Breaker Morant, to raise money for charity Soldier On, which is helping Australia's wounded soldiers. More here