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Guests 'try to blackmail resorts'

Bernard and Rikki Grinberg of Ballina Beach Village, in South Ballina.

ACCOMMODATION houses claim guests are demanding money in exchange for not posting fictional damning critiques of their properties on a travel review website.
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Lighthouse families share stories

Norma McCabe of Mullumbimby lived at the Byron Bay Lighthouse cottages with her husband John between 1973 and 1980.

A NEW book is shining a light on the families who lived and worked in some of the state's most remote and isolated lighthouses.
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'No cuts' to Nth Coast services

Virgin will retain services.

VIRGIN Australia has pledged not to cut air services to northern New South Wales in spite of congestion woes at Sydney Airport.
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Get out and hit a nature trail

WAVE goodbye to migratory birds as they fly away from the Richmond River Nature Reserve at South Ballina, on what may be a 25,000 km journey.
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Fancy a French village?

The French village of Courbefy is on the market for $400,000.

WITH $400,000 you could buy a very respectable, three-bedroom family home in Lismore.
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Byron is priciest NSW destination

Byron Bay accommodation prices rank up with the world's highest.

BYRON Bay is NSW’s most expensive tourist destination and rates in price among some of the most costly in the world, a new report shows.
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Golfers target of tourism push

Northern Rivers Tourism will target China's golfers among other groups in an effort to promote tourism in the region.

GOLFING holidays on the Northern Rivers is one of the ideas being floated in an effort to bring more Chinese tourists to the region.
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Join Paul in saving orangutans

Paul Daley with a tree kangaroo in Northern Queensland.

ORANGUTAN rescue and stopping illegal deforestation has again drawn Paul Daley to camp in a Borneo forest, this time for 100 days.
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Positive signs for tourism

TOURISM across the Northern Rivers region is showing signs of improvement and the situation is looking particularly good for Byron Bay.
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B&B makes Tatler's top 101

Deux Belettes Guesthouse in Dalwood

AN EXCLUSIVE North Coast bed and breakfast has made it into an elite fashion magazine read by the Queen of England.

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IT'S a curious thing, but a cemetery can often tell us as much about a town as its living residents.

 

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