Barrier Daily Truth

Film studio plan

Friday, 18th May, 2012

GRAND PLANS: The studios in the old Central Power Station in Eyre Street could one day be much more than a place to make movies.

City Council has announced an ambitious plan for the new film studios.

This weekend a nation-wide search will begin to find suitable investor partners.

Council will embark on an advertising campaign in some of Australia’s leading newspapers and online to attract suitable enterprises and individuals to build strategic partnerships to help develop, manage and/or operate the multi-million dollar facility.

Exploration to begin

Saturday, 21st April, 2012

Company seeks uranium near city

A South Australian explorer is set to become one of the first companies in the country to take advantage of the NSW Government’s lifting of a ban on uranium exploration.

Marmota Energy yesterday announced it had applied for three new uranium prospective tenements north-west of Broken Hill in NSW.

The moves follows the lifting of a 28-year ban on uranium exploration in NSW last month.

Bandsmen honoured 100 years on

Monday, 2nd April, 2012

TITANIC SERVICE: BIU band members Carol Nicolson, Dawn Mawby, Major Kelvin Stace, Ross Mawby with City Council’s General Manager Frank Zaknich at the memorial to the Titanic’s bandsmen in Sturt Park.

Broken Hill’s link with the RMS Titanic will be commemorated to mark the 100th anniversary of since the sinking of the grand luxury liner off Newfoundland on April 15, 1912. 

The city is one of only two places in Australia that has a memorial dedicated to the bandsmen who famously continued to play as the ship went down, the other being Ballarat. 

The Broken Hill memorial was officially unveiled on December 21, 1913 but the 100th anniversary of the ship’s tragic sinking will be recognised with a special service in Sturt Park on Sunday, April 15 at 12.30pm.