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8.55am: Some great cropping news at Wallendbeen - a new wheat record!
When a new wheat still yields 5.4 tonnes per hectare and sets the highest ever test weight on a farm recording about half its average growing season rainfall and a particularly dry spring, it’s no wonder there’s some excitement about what it could do in a good season.
Read more about it here.
8.50am: Easter is just around the corner and there were some pretty awesome hats in parades prior to school breaking up. Check them out here and if you've got a snap or two you think should be in there, email it to dhuntly@fairfaxmedia.com.au.
8.40am: Looking for a footy score? Head on over to Footy HQ.
8.30am: Griffith residents have lost track of more than $13 million of superannuation, a recent report has identified.
8.15am: The usually serious and staid setting of a bank was disrupted by a couple of customer service staff who spent Friday morning clowning around.
7.55am: Vandalism has forced a Leeton priest to lock the doors of the church.
The last attack saw youths break in and let off fire extinguishers throughout the building.
7.35am: NSW primary schools are banning children from bringing loom bands - brightly coloured woven bracelets - to stop playground tears over unfair sales and swaps. Do you agree with the move?
7.25am: Griffith wineries have welcomed the free trade agreement with Japan, believing it will help them create a new market of wine lovers.
7.15am: Tragedy struck in Wagga on Friday night when 23-year-old Brent Little went missing while swimming at Wiradjuri Reserve.
NSW Police divers arrived in the city on Saturday but there has been no sign of the missing man since he was last seen at 8.30pm on Friday.
6.45am: Good morning!
Is something happening in your part of the Riverina? Email Daisy at dhuntly@fairfaxmedia.com.au or let us know on Twitter - @FairfaxRiverina.
The Riverina forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology: Partly cloudy. Winds south to southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h. Overnight temperatures falling to around 12 with daytime temperatures reaching the low to mid 20s.
The South West Slopes and Plains forecast from the Bureau of Meteorology: Partly cloudy. The chance of showers near the Victorian border until evening. Winds southeasterly 15 to 25 km/h. Overnight temperatures falling to between 6 and 11 with daytime temperatures reaching between 15 and 21.
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1792 - The French Revolutionary Wars are sparked by France declaring war on Austria.
1865 - US president Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.
1870 - Gold was discovered in Gulgon, sparking a major gold rush for the area. By 1872, the town's population had swelled to 20,000 people.
1941 - The second attack against Tobruk by the Afrika Korps fails.
1986 - Desmond Tutu is elected Archbishop of Capetown.
2013 - Adam Scott wins the Masters.
1. What colour are Snoopy's ears?
2. Which Spanish musical instrument is made from two wooden shells?
3. According to Greek mythology, the seduction of which famed beauty caused the Trojan war?
4. Who was the founder of Methodism?
5. 1839 saw the first Opium War break out between which two countries?
Click the image at the top of this story to see the answers.