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Live: NSW Now: Drug rehab for Sydney ferry workers, fisherman still missing

Here's what you need to know this morning.

Drug rehab for suspended ferry workers

The NRMA, who owns the Manly Fast Ferry, says it is providing drug rehabilitation and counselling to employees who have been stood down after drug tests.

Last week's positive results were the first in 10 years of operation and CEO Rohan Lund said he was "heartbroken".

A random drug test of 10 deckhands pre-shift returned five positive test results and a further five employees avoided the test.

The NRMA is now calling for an increase in drug and alcohol tests on the Harbour by police and education campaign through the union.

Fisherman could be in sea cave

Police divers will today resume the search for a fisherman who went missing off rocks at Timber Beach on the NSW Central Coast.

It is understood the 62-year-old's daughter raised the alarm at about 10:30am yesterday following reports a man had fallen into the water.

It is believed the fisherman may be in a sea cave but lifesavers have been unable to get inside safely.

The man was fishing with two other people at the time he went missing and he is believed to have been wearing a life jacket.

Festival drug deaths inquest begins

An inquest into the drug-related deaths of six young people at various summer music festivals across NSW will commence today.

Two people, Diana Nguyen and Joseph Nguyen Nhu Binh Pham, died last September at the Defqon.1 festival which will not return to Australia this year.

Three festival-goers then died over a period of weeks in December last year at the Knockout Games of Destiny, Lost Paradise and Knockout Circuz events.

The string of deaths led to widespread calls for pill testing at music festivals, which NSW Premier Gladys Bereijklian has rejected.

Police offering reward for information about murder

Police will today announce a $1 million reward for information that leads to a conviction over the murder of Penny Hill nearly three decades ago.

Ms Hill, then aged 20, was found clinging to life, unconscious with severe head and facial injuries, in a ditch near Coolah on July 8, 1991.

Three days before the attack, the young Narrabri girl had just arrived in the small town to work as a nanny.

Last year police offered a $100,000 reward for information.

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