The group had gone to a colleague’s home after a day at the races.

The biggest win this year ahead of tonight’s draw was a family syndicate from Wellington.

A woman has been charged with murder after a man was allegedly stabbed to death in Sydney's eastern suburbs

Police found 37-year-old Scott Wallace with fatal stab wounds at a home on Murrabin Avenue in Matraville at 6.15pm yesterday.

Wallace could not be revived by paramedics and died at the scene. 

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31-year-old Nikita Kirby was arrested nearby.

It's understood Kirby was the ex-partner of Wallace.

She has been charged with murder and has been refused bail by police.

She will appear in Waverley Local Court tomorrow.

Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Australian radio legend Bob Rogers has died at the age of 97.

Rogers began his career as a panel operator in Melbourne in 1942, before going on to work in Brisbane and Sydney on 2SM, 2GB and 2CH, before retiring in 2018.

Rogers was awarded an OAM in 2010 for his contribution to broadcasting.

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Rogers spent an extraordinary 78 years in the radio industry.

His first job as an announcer was at 3MA Mildura when he was only 17, far away from his family in Melbourne.

"I never had any contact with my family back in Melbourne," he told 9Honey in 2020.

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"The only way to contact them was on the phone and we couldn't afford them. All I could do was write a letter."

He got his start in radio in a similar way to many in the industry.

Rogers caught the radio bug as a child — crowding around the wireless as a family to listen to shows, back in the 1940s before TV sets became more affordable.

He followed his passion and got a job as a panel operator at local station 3XY when he was just 14 years old.

"They hosted a children's radio session, conducted by Max Reddy and Stella Lamond," he said.

It was while working at 3XY that Rogers was asked to voice a character on a radio show. Excited, he raced home to listen to it with his family.

"We were listening at the family dinner table and my sister who, is eight years older than me, laughed like mad when she heard my voice which hadn't broken yet. She said, 'You'll never be an announcer if you have a voice like that.'"

"I have a funny feeling that was the motivator, to show her."

Rogers began voice lessons and landed a dream role as a radio announcer in Mildura.

Rogers had plenty of brushes with huge US stars during his long career.

He met Doris Day while she was filming the movie Pillow Talk in 1959, which he says was one of his "favourites".

He said he also met singer Michael Bublé "before he was famous".

Waitaanga home was extensively damaged with a body later found at the scene.

A man allegedly armed with an axe has been arrested after entering a school and forcing it into lockdown south-east of Brisbane.

Police were called to Loganholme State School in Logan before 2pm today.

Principal Sonya Wilson told parents in an urgent email not to approach the school, which was locked down due to the ongoing incident.

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"Our students are safe, but we are in a lockdown with an intruder in the school," she said in the email. 

Police arrived at the school, arrested a 31-year-old man and seized the axe.

No one was injured. 9News understands the man did not approach any of the students. 

No charges have been laid. 

Coffee prices are bound to increase as hospitality businesses suffer under inflation, experts and cafe owners say.

Coffee in Sydney is the cheapest in the country, according to food consultants Hey You, but cafes are feeling the pressure of trying to keep prices down.

"Sydney is far cheaper – about 5 per cent cheaper – than what people pay across the country for coffee," Hey You chief executive Asheesh Chako said.

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"There's a lot of competition in the market cafes and cafe owners know if they increase their prices too much patrons will go somewhere else."

Australia has the third cheapest coffee prices in the world, but it comes at a cost. 

Underground Coffee Roasters owner Tim Briggs has managed to keep his doors open through COVID-19, increasing transport prices and a global bean shortage.

He says others haven't been so lucky. 

"We're seeing some really good operators, well-known cafes, go under and close their doors," Briggs said.

Those cafes that are still open are doing whatever they can to increase margins.

"At some point, (the price) will have to move," Briggs said.

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CreditorWatch has predicted 1 in 13 hospitality businesses are facing failure over the next 12 months.

"Hospitality is doing it far tougher than any other industry out there at the moment," CreditorWatch chief executive Patrick Coghlan said.

"They just have so much that's against them – in particular, labour costs, inflation and, of course, discretionary spending is way down."

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