Negotiable [Drouin] Jayco Freedom 2004 Pop top Caravan, single axle, double bed, front kitchen, a/c, cd player, awning, microwave. Reg June 2009

Negotiable [Willow Grove/trafalgar] Catch and release service removing snakes and other reptiles in the Gippsland area.

$850.00 [Darnum] Lowline Bull, 19 months old, ready to work. Ideal over dairy heifers. Easy birthing, fast growth rate. Quiet and easy to handle.

$1,650.00 [Trafalgar] Star is 15.3 Brown, broken in, she is quiet and very easy to ride.

22,500 [Hallora] 2001 Nissan Patrol - 148,000km 5 speed manual 4 x 4 3.0 L 4 cylinder diesel inter cooled turbo One owner, excellent condition, RWC, serviced regularly, safety pack, ABS.

Negotiable [Warragul] These mags are 16inch and are GTS lookalike rims. 2 tyres are about 50-70% worn, 1 tyre is unroad-worthy and the other is less than 50%. These mags would suite Holden Commodore models VC-VX. Available for inspection anytime. I want $250 but price neg. Thanks

18/11/2008 GAS could be turned on in Leongatha and Korumburra in a few months, putting to rest concerns of more delays. According to Jemena, the company overseeing contruction of the natural gas network in the regions there are no doubts hanging over the commercial viability of selling natural gas to South Gippsland. Jemena corporate affairs group manager, Mr Scott Parker said negotiations were sufficiently advanced and the company was confident of finalising a retailer by the end of the year.

18/11/2008 An unconscious patient from Yarram was recently forced to wait about 30 minutes while a Leongatha ambulance crew made the trek from Foster.

18/11/2008 SOUTH Gippsland's continued solid growth is expected to shore the region up against economic calamity.

18/11/2008 The Star was on hand as Leongatha Police swung into action last Tuesday, impounding a car under the state's anti-hoon legislation. "This car will be impounded for 48hours. There's quite a few hoons around lately," Senior Constable Jeff Watsford told The Star, as Burchell Panels, Leongatha, loaded a blue Commodore sedan onto its tow truck. The car will be impounded for two days, because the 60m burnout was a first offence. The driver was hooning in the Leongatha Industrial Estate. "The message doesn't seem to be getting through to people. Young bucks think they're all Peter Brock and they've got the driving skills to match," Sen Con Watsford said.

18/11/2008 Les Boyd is one of the unsung heroes of the local cricket scene. Not that you'd ever hear him suggest it. But after more than half a century in the game and some 17 years as a local umpire, Les has an army of admirers. The reminder that Les was about to umpire his 300th club game in the B Grade Nerrena versus Phillip Island match this weekend came to us via a young cricketer and footy scribe, Isaac McCallum. "A lot of the boys think he deserves a bit of a story," Isaac said. The milestone is unprecedented in the LDCA competition. In addition, Les has also umpired about 50 inter-association games and been secretary and appointments officer of the LDCA umpiring association. Sadly for the LDCA competition, Les' career will wind up at the end of the season, as he has plans to spend more time with his wife, Julie. What is the attraction of umpiring? "The reason I umpire is that years ago we hardly had any umpires, and we always used to get into arguments. And you used to make lifetime enemies," he said. "I reckon that if you have paid neutral umpires, then the umpires cop it and not the players. You just have to have umpires." Les played "for a huge amount of years" with Foster and then Town when he came to live in Ruby.

6:18PM TIMOTHY Geithner, tipped to be US President-elect Barack Obama's Treasury chief, will bring the experience of a Washington insider and a markets technocrat at a time of acute economic peril.

6:14PM SOMALI pirates holding an oil-laden Saudi supertanker say they will fight back if there is any military intervention to free the ship.

5:32PM THE board of directors of embattled US carmaker General Motors is considering "all options" including bankruptcy, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal website.

4:44PM THE rare two-faced kitten born in Perth this week has died.