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The mother of a boy imprisoned at Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre tells an inquiry her son was "savable" and "a child who still had a future" when he went in — but his ordeal at the prison changed that.

The mum-of-three will tackle the 26.2-mile course on behalf of SANDS and in memory of little Eva.

Sceptics say there are practical explanations for things that go bump in the night but ghost stories — far from scaring off visitors — can be good for business.

From footballer Jake Daniels coming out to trans actor Yasmin Finney being cast in Doctor Who, it feels like there has been a turning point in Generation Z’s queer experience. But how much have things really changed?

The past week's notices from around the region

Hellbent on lifting a supposed gypsy curse, Tommy searches the hills of answers, leaving little sister Ada to helm the ship

Costumes designed for the late Helen McCrory's characters are still being used in the new series

In HBO's "The Gilded Age," Julian "Downton Abbey" Fellowes transfers his interest in rich people and the people who serve them from early 20th-century England to late 19th-century New York. Once again, it's an upstairs-downstairs, extravagantly dressed soap opera set against a background of social change, as a self-styled aristocracy…