Local Ballarat Rock Cover band, Bitter Sweet, is teaming up with local pub Irish Murphy's to celebrate a great cause. Bitter Sweet bass player Bayne McDonald, has decided to part with his lovely locks and do it as part of the Worlds Greatest Shave. The event will be held at Irish Murphy's Sturt St Ballarat Saturday 23rd September from 5pm to 8pm,…

Popular wedding venue, The Tangled Maze at Springmount has gone into liquidation, which has left many couples without a wedding venue just weeks prior to their big day. One couple, Jay Brokenshow and his Fiancee Megan McGourlay are just 8 weeks from their wedding day, have 20 relatives on their way from Scotland to join the celebrations and now…

It's a simple task...create a job per day until November. That's what BGT and the job drive is all about...youth job opportunity. Now in it's 2nd week, 3BA Bigshow caught up with CEO Mandy Macdonald about week one results and also spoke with Richard McClure from Stems Flower Market on how the program has benefitted his business.

Gene Simmons announced The Vault, a comprehensive, ridiculously-packaged box set of his solo material that arrives in a literal 38-pound safe. The sticker price for the set is $2,000 and includes 150 unreleased songs. The Vault also has 10 discs of solo material, a leather-bound photo book, a Gene Simmons action figure (without Kiss regalia), an…

Christy Cook hasn't had a sound night's sleep in a long time. 10 year-old son Kayle cannot speak and has regular night-time seizures which in some cases have almost claimed the Linton boy's life. Kayle has been approved by Smart Pups for an assistant dog to detect seizures, but even though the dog is technically free-of-charge, it will cost…

'Steven' the Ballarat cabbie was asked to drive a sick Bacchus Marsh woman to the emergency department at Ballarat Base Hospital at 7.30am yesterday (Mon 18 Sept). What made this ride different was that the woman had ambulance cover and Ambulance Victoria will be paying the $118 fare. When friends of the woman rang 000 they were told a paramedic…

Brett Goodes from the Western Bulldogs will be among a star-studded lineup of footy players gathering at the Mars Stadium complex on the weekend of October 14-15 for the Yannanayowoit Dullallally 'Always Proud' football and netball carnival. Around 3000 Aboriginal sportspeople from across Victoria will compete - and all are welcome to come and…

We've all heard the phrase opposites attract...but do they? Jean Flynn 3BA's social commentator tells us why they do! Have you - or someone you met - made an assumption that was waaaay of the mark? It can lead to some very awkward conversations. We caught up with Ballarat based social commentator and author of 'Lovesick' Jean Flynn, about the…

GEELONG star and former Crow Patrick Dangerfield says Adelaide are the best team in the AFL. He says they have been all season. And they run a lot deeper than star midfielder Rory Sloane, who had starred in their last meeting – a 21-point round-18…

PORT Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley has signed a three-year contract extension with the AFL club. Hinkley will coach Port until at least the end of the 2021 season, after rejecting overtures to join the Gold Coast Suns. He had been contracted at Port…

KEN Hinkley says he will soon extend his tenure as coach of Port Adelaide, ending speculation linking him to the Gold Coast Suns. Hinkley says he will honour his contract at Port which expires at the end of next season and hopes an extension beyond…

GREATER Western Sydney have re-signed Josh Kelly, with the race to recruit the AFL’s most in-demand youngster put on hold for a further two seasons. Rival clubs were lining up to lure Kelly home to Victoria, with North Melbourne dangling a nine-year…

Britons have made more films about war than any other subject, including sex, according to new research. The British Film Institute has looked at its new archive of more than 10,000 UK films, from the first released in cinemas, in 1911, to the present day. It found that more British films (582) have been made about war - from The Dam Busters…

In this April 13, 2005, file photo, Jake LaMotta and his wife Denise arrive for the world premier of the critically acclaimed boxing drama "Ring Of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story" at the Beekman Theater in New York. (AP Photo/Gina Gayle, File) Jake LaMotta, the boxing champion whose memoir inspired Martin Scorsese's 1980 film Raging Bull, has…

Linda Hamilton is returning to the Terminator franchise for the first time since 1991's Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Terminator creator James Cameron announced Hamilton's casting at a private event in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, the Hollywood Reporter reported. Paramount Pictures, which is distributing the planned sequel, didn't immediately…

About ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD: Rome, 1973. Masked men kidnap a teenage boy named Paul. His grandfather, J. Paul Getty, is the richest man in the world, a billionaire oil magnate, but he’s notoriously miserly. His favorite grandson’s abduction is not reason enough for him to part with any of his fortune. All the Money in the World follows Gail,…