INVERELL Shire Council will decide at its monthly meeting today whether to match State Government funding for next year's Opera in the Paddock.

From souvenir retail and manufacturing through Sydney's busiest tourist hotspots to a winery just outside of Delungra, Rae and Ross Thomas marked another stage in their treechange this week.

TELEVISION and radio gardening presenter Graham Ross will be Inverell Shire Council's Australia Day ambassador for celebrations next month.

WHEN Jacob Campbell was born he weighed less than a 500g tub of margarine.

Delungra Public School students were busy making a home for their local koalas last week.