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LRH takes on more graduates

NURSING graduate numbers at Latrobe Regional Hospital are set to increase next year despite union claims up to 40 per cent of the state's nursing and midwifery graduates will miss out on placements.

Twenty years of roses and friendship

Volunteers and Latrobe City Council staff celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Morwell Centenary Rose Garden with a presentation at council offices last week.

Valley residents left short

AMBULANCE Victoria has denied union claims a paramedic shortage may have contributed to the recent death of a Latrobe Valley patient.

Uncertainty lingers over site

GIPPSAERO is set to expand its overseas market but uncertainty still looms over where it will build its new aircraft.

Cuts begin to bite

POLITICAL debate over cuts to health funding, and the implications for local hospital waiting lists, intensified last week.

Enrolments are ‘vital’

CENTRAL Gippsland Institute of TAFE's uncertain future lies at the mercy of next year's student enrolments, its chief executive has admitted, amid concerns State Government cuts have sent the institute spiralling into financial disarray.

Latrobe City’s councillors

Express journalist Annabelle Beale spoke with Latrobe City’s recently elected councillors on their aims for the coming term. 

Garden of ghouls and ghosts

LATROBE Valley residents who went trick or treating for Halloween last night may have visited a Traralgon resident's creepy graveyard garden.

Racing legacy lives on

MOE trainer Peter Gelagotis' only misgiving ahead of this weekend's Victoria Derby is his late father Michael will not be there to see their galloper Hvasstan vying for a group one win.

House shortage hinders market

A "DESPERATE" housing shortage in the Traralgon real estate market has been blamed for a nine per cent increase in median house prices, frustrating real estate agents who are unable to capitalise on recent improvements in buyer activity.

Start of VCE examinations

HUNDREDS of anxious Latrobe Valley year 12 students will sit for the Victorian Certificate of Education English paper today, marking the start of the end-of-year written examinations.

It is easy to be green

THE Scammell household installed solar panels in a bid to reduce their electricity bills, but father Mark was not impressed when told his indulgences - a plasma television and beer fridge - were likely the main culprits behind the bulk of the costs.

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