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• Australian Hotels Association awards honour Canberra's best ...

  Canberra's hospitality industry appears to be thriving more than ever, as it celebrated a record number of entries to the ACT Australian Hotels Association awards on Monday night.Brian Smith was honoured three times at the annual awards, taking away the John Press award for his two venues Hopscotch in Braddon and Young & Frisky in Gungahlin, while Hopscotch also co-won the best pub bistro with The Meating Room in Weston Creek.. Award winning: Hopscotch Bar co-owners Brian Smith and Nick Pa..

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• Canberra Weekender: What's on in Canberra July 15-17

  

  Dami Im, who represented Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest this year, will perform a sold out show at Canberra Theatre Centre.  All weekend COLLECTING DR WHO Starting on Saturday, new exhibition Bigger on the inside: Collecting Dr Who will display the Dr Who memorabilia collection of Canberra collector Timothy Kirsopp, who is attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the world's largest collection of Dr Who related memorabilia. Canberra Museum and Gallery, 176 London Ci..

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  The ACT government is pushing to re-establish a low-cost air route to Melbourne, and has announced it will hire a "commissioner for international engagement" to enhance Canberra's ties with cities abroad.  The ACT government is trying to attract low-cost, budget airlines such as Jetstar to Canberra.  Photo: Paul Rovere It has been five years since the last budget carrier, Tigerair, flew from Melbourne to Canberra. Road closures:A number of road closures will remain in place until Septemb..

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• Canberra man charged with string of child sex offences against girl

  

  A Canberra man has faced court charged with a string of sex crimes, including rape and producing child pornography.Jeffrey David Lee, 47, was formally charged with 23 offences when he appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Accused: Jeffrey David Lee. Photo: Facebook He faced three counts of sexual intercourse with a child, eight counts of using a child to produce child pornography and accessing child pornography.Lee has also been charged with assault, intentionally inflicting ..

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