WHAT prompts festival strip searches has been revealed at an inquiry.
A POLICE officer at last year's Splendour in the Grass music festival where a teenage girl was forced to strip naked has been labelled "careless" at an inquiry.
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THE festival creates a new pop-up city on the Northern Rivers, and it shows what we are capable of as a region, says editor David Kirkpatrick.
THERE'S not a piece of cutlery to be seen in this new restaurant, which is taking the concept of "finger food" to the extreme.
