FIVE out of six government schools in the Hunter Region were broken into or vandalised in the past 12 months but only one in four has security fencing.

TO three-year-old Dominic Mellare, it looked just like an iceblock and tasted "very yummy".

TO THREE-YEAR-OLD Dominic Mellare it looked just like an iceblock and it tasted "very yummy". But within hours of secretly taking a few nibbles on the ice pack his mother, Nicola, had applied to his sore fingers after touching a hot stove, the Newcastle toddler was unconsciousness.

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