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Sonia Hornery lambasts state government in the wake of freak storm in Newcastle

Simon McCarthy
Updated February 28 2020 - 12:09pm, first published 12:00pm

The water was seeping in from everywhere. Outside Lizotte's Restaurant at Lambton, torrential rain hammered down in what forecasters described as a once-in-10-year event.

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Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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