The recommended age for breast screening goes from 50 to include women ages 40 to 49

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• Search now includes from the air for a missing 68-year-old man in the Birchy Narrows area

  Perry Green was last heard from Monday morning and his family believed he was travelling between Port aux Basques and St. John’s, however he did not arrive.

• Driver clocked near Flat Bay doing more than 50 km/hr over the speed limit

  RCMP Cpl Jesse O’Donaghey says Traffic Services West stopped the driver Sunday afternoon on the Trans Canada Highway near Flat Bay.

• NDP NL calls for more affordable home heating

  Leader Jim Dinn says they’ve been pushing for the removal of the HST from all forms of home heating, everything from electricity, oil, to firewood.

• A petition is going around Deer Lake against a proposed rowhouse development on Trailer Court Road

  The town is looking for comments on amendments to development regulations to allow for three rowhouses containing a total of twenty units on about 1.1 hectares of vacant land.

• Westjet flights returned last night at the Deer Lake Regional Airport

  CUPE represented  cabin crew walked off the job Sunday but on Monday, it was announced that a tentative deal will be brought to members for a vote.