MEGA GALLERY: The week in pictures

Another asbestos dumping site at a Melbourne Rd business. PICTURE: THE COURIER

Police surround Scott Pearce, 25, at the end of a five-hour siege in March this year. PICTURE: THE COURIER.

Dairy farmer Glenn Ross, along with other farmers in the region, look forward to more rain after an exceptionally dry first five months of the year. PHOTOGRAPHER: ADAM TRAFFORD (THE COURIER)

More street art has sprung up around Ballarat. This shot was taken in The Lane at the George Hotel. PHOTOGRAPHER: JEREMY BANNISTER (THE COURIER)

Kelly Ruddick set new Masters 40 years female 10km world racewalking record in Vic Country titles in North Gardens last weekend. PHOTOGRAPHER: JEREMY BANNISTER (THE COURIER)

Jumps racing at Bendigo Jockey Club. Picture: Jim Aldersey (BENDIGO ADVERTISER)

The Festival of Light at the Great Stupa. Picture: Julie Hough (BENDIGO ADVERTISER)

Albury Paratriathlete Justin Godfrey is training hard in swimming, cycling and running in the hope of making the paraolympics. Pictures: TARA GOONAN (BORDER MAIL)

The car in which two peopl e were killed after colliding with this truck near Savernake. Picture: PETER MERKESTEYN (BORDER MAIL)

Daniel Bowles gets away despite Marc O'Donohue's flying tackle. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL (BORDER MAIL)

Author Tara Moss revealed the stories behind some of her most famous novels. Picture: BEN EYLES (BORDER MAIL)

Brian Lynch inside the metal tube he described as an "Australian first" in engineering. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL (BORDER MAIL)

BATHURST: NSW Nurses and Midwives Association Bathurst branch members Lyn Sloane and Tatiana Muller (front) and their nursing colleagues are fighting planned cuts at Bathurst Base Hospital. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK (WESTERN ADVOCATE)

ORANGE: This house in Lone Pine Avenue was home to five children and two adults, and was completely engulfed in flames on Saturday night. Photo: (CENTRAL WESTERN DAILY)

BATHURST: Leader of The Great Walk team Jonathan Green, front left, and Scotty Macallister from the Knickerbocker Hotel in Bathurst ready to raise more funds for charity. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK (WESTERN ADVOCATE)

LITHGOW: The Hartley Saddlery crew approach Mt York with a police escort. 18 - BATHURST: Local astronomer Ray Pickard with the fragments from the Chelyabinsk Meteor that have been donated to him. They will go on display at the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK

BATHURST: Local astronomer Ray Pickard with the fragments from the Chelyabinsk Meteor that have been donated to him. They will go on display at the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK

ORANGE: Nanette Mulcahy (right) with daughter Shannon Cain was shocked when her ticket drawn from the cash cube won her a Hyundai i20. Photo: JUDE KEOGH.

ORANGE: A healthy crowd turned out to voice their opinions on the pipeline. Photo: STEVE GOSCH

ORANGE: ONE bus, 107 students, only 62 spaces on the bus and up to a one hour journey - the maths do not add up and Millthorpe Public School parents are furious. Photo: Steve Gosche

ORANGE: Orange Christian School students (in rickshaw) Daniel Parton and Thom Dwyer with (front) Kyle Palmer, Caelan Maxon and James Scheepers are ready for the school's latest theatre production. Photo: STEVE GOSCH

DUBBO: The Member for Dubbo Troy Grant, Dubbo mayor Mathew Dickerson, Taronga Western Plains Zoo general manager Matt Fuller, runner Jane Fardell, Dubbo Stampede committee president Bonnie Tratt and Elders sponsor Johnathon O'Sullivan . Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

LITHGOW: Pipers Flat Road turned into a footpath for walkers in the Walk for Cancer fundraiser held on Sunday.

DUBBO; A standing room-only congregation at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Dubbo celebrated the life of Gerry Peacocke, a man who was fully engaged and committed to family, church and community.

COWRA: L-R: Kira Anderson, Madison Knight, Francesca Fenton, Chloe Wilson, Grace Kelly and Melissa Causer from Henry Lawson High, Grenfell took part in the Cowra Eisteddfod.

LITHGOW: Paul Cardow, of Beyond Photographics at Wallerawang, captured this short of The Roulettes over the Hartley Valley.

COWRA: Cowra Public School has been busy fundraising for year’s five and six excursion later this year- almost 1000 pies later and they've finally reached their target. Luke D'Elboux and Brodie Graham help sort the huge pie order.

Aussie Rules action. (PORT MACQUARIE NEWS)

I’m not biased… bowls humour. (PORT MACQUARIE NEWS)

Local residents. (PORT MACQUARIE NEWS)

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Postcard conditions for surfing at Port Macquarie (PORT MACQUARIE NEWS)

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Simon Whyte with 18-month-old daughter Georgia, son Sydney, 4, and wife Andrea amid the construction that has included raising their North Wagga home to avoid flood damage. Picture: Addison Hamilton (DAILY ADVERTISER)

President of the North Wagga Residents Association, Laurie Blowes, can't understand why the idea of the village being relocated was considered by council. Picture: Addison Hamilton (DAILY ADVERTISER)

Wantabadgery farmer Tony Clough hoping for more rain on the way for his crops. Picture: Alastair Brook (DAILY ADVERTISER)

Resident John Kilby lives a few doors down from an apartment in Kooringal that was destroyed by fire. Picture: Addison Hamilton (DAILY ADVERTISER)

Jack Jorgensen, 10, Grace Dillon, 10, and Aylish Jorgensen, 10, at the Riverina String & Recorder camp at Borambola. Picture: Addison Hamilton (DAILY ADVERTISER)

Tahlia Frost-Hocking and Claudia Morris of Ashmont Public School race through the wet conditions at the PSSA Cross Country at Ladysmith. Picture: Michael Frogley (DAILY ADVERTISER)

THE legend of Sir Donald Bradman has been reborn after old footage revealed the blueprint for the historic Bradman family home. Phillip Lenarduzzi restored the Bradman family home to its original form with his team from Lenarduzzi Builder in Moss Vale. Photo Eliza Winkler (SOUTHERN HIGHLAND NEWS)

Police have run in their new mobile command vehicle after a spate of thefts in Yerrinbool. (SOUTHERN HIGHLAND NEWS)

MITTAGONG Lions will all look pretty in pink this weekend when they take on local rivals Moss Vale at home on Sunday. It will be Mittagong’s second Women in league day where the players will all wear the club’s specially designed pink jerseys to celebrate the contributions of mothers, grandmothers and sisters of all the players. (SOUTHERN HIGHLAND NEWS)