WEDNESDAY afternoon's spatter of rain got many people's hopes up, but experts say there is unlikely to be decent rain for at least the next three months, and for local primary producers, 'it's getting pretty desperate'.

INVERELL could become the site of a whisky distillery using top quality malting barley from the Delungra area, if the plans of the Inverell Regional Business Enterprise Centre (BEC) come to fruition.

THE quilt show held in Delungra on the weekend featured some of the best quilters in Australia, according to one of the organisers.

DELUNGRA cricket captain Scott Cole says Kieran Hasselman's 175 against Oxfords on Saturday was one of the finest innings he has witnessed.

SPOKESPERSONS from our local emergency services crews have praised the efforts of the volunteers who travelled to Sydney and other areas to help during the recent bushfire crisis.