LAST week’s timely rainfall has been met with positive responses for district farmers., Inverell’s official rainfall figure was 56.4mm over four days.

IT was a record Breaking day at the Inverell Regional Saleyards on Tuesday when heavy lamb prices reached their highest in more than 10 years.

THE hard hitting advertising campaign throughout the Christmas period has had little effect on drivers in the New England Local Area Command, according to head of highway patrol, Senior Constable Grahame Brown.