​Here’s a little something to give you a morning laugh.

► CHEVALIER College finished the season undefeated after the youth grade decider. 

Chev remain undefeated.

Chevalier took victory over the Wollondilly Soldiers in the AAM youth grade grand final at David Wood Playing Fields. 

In the first half of the match, Jordan Provino, Daniel Aebi and Morgan Horn scored for Chevalier which put the score at 3-0 at the break. 

► HIGHLANDERS can again show their support for Korina Valentine.

A dinner dance will be held at Mittagong RSL on October 29 to raise funds for the Reaching 4 Korina charity.

The event will be begin at 6.30pm and include a two course buffet dinner.

► MOSS Vale is a step closer to improved roads.

A consultant has been announced for the multi-million dollar Berrima Road Deviation Project.

Opus International Consultants will undertake design and environmental studies for the works, which are scheduled to begin in the first half of 2017.

This will include a new B-triple capacity roundabout at the intersection of Berrima Road and Taylor Avenue, New Berrima, road realignment and a rail overbridge to replace the existing rail level crossing.

►MANY Highlands roads are in desperate need of repair.

One such road is Oxley Drive, where ruts on the side of the road could cause a serious accident.

Southern Highlands Taxis driver Rod Minchin has called on council to fix this and many other roads in need of repair across the shire.

► FRIDAY Barnes is fast becoming one of the most popular young detectives in the world.

Avid young readers have R.A. Spratt to thank for the intriguing 11-year-old girl detective who uses her impressive powers of deduction to right wrongs at her very exclusive, hoity-toity boarding school.

But it’s not just young readers celebrating the success of the Friday Barnesseries. More here.

► STORMWATER upgrades will cause minimal disruption to Bowral road users over a one-month period.

Stormwater pits and pipework adjacent to and under Old South Road will be upgraded from September 26.

Works will take place between Retford Road and Derby Street and are expected to be completed by mid October, weather permitting.

► The Southern Highlands 7s tournament is nearly here. 

The Bowral Blacks will host the fifth annual Southern Highlands Rugby 7’s tournament on October 1.

► A HIGHLANDS business is ready to embrace a new challenge.

Warrigal in Goulburn ended its partnership with Blooms the Chemist (Goulburn) and was replaced by Capital Chemist in Mittagong as medicines provider from October 1.

Warrigal (previously Warrigal Care) administrators sent a letter to residents and their families in early September to outline the reasons for the change. More here.

TRAFFIC:  All Southern Highlands roads are open and clear.

TRAINS: Commuters can expect a good service on the Southern Highlands line today. 

WEATHER: A partly cloudy day with winds W/NW 25 to 35 km/h tending W/SW 30 to 40 km/h in the middle of the day then becoming light in the evening and a daytime maximum temperature 14 can be expected in the Highlands today.

Here's a look at what the local weather is doing right now:

7.00AM:  Good morning and welcome to the Southern Highlands Rise and Shine. Over the next few hours we will be bringing you as much information as possible from across the Southern Highlands and nationally.

Weather, road conditions, breaking news, we will have it all - and we'd love to have your help! If there's anything happening in your part of the world, drop us a line! Email jackie.meyers@fairfaxmedia.com.au

Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered. 

Before we get into the serious stuff (although some would argue this very much is), let’s have a look at the red carpet arrivals at the 2016 Brownlow Medal last night. Check out all the photos here.

NEWCASTLE: A random act of kindness from a Newcastle-based bloke has won a host of admirers on social media. Read more.

BENDIGO: A THIRD housemate has been charged with the murder of Kangaroo Flat woman Samantha Kelly. Read more.

ALBURY: An Albury man has admitted he almost tossed away his division one winning TattsLotto ticket, which netted him more than $684,000 in the weekend’s TattsLotto draw. Read more.

TAMWORTH: POLICE allege a man who wielded a shortened shotgun at patrons in a pub used the firearm two days before the bizarre incident near Gunnedah. Read more.

TASMANIA: A MAN has died in a single-vehicle crash at Forthside on Monday night. Read more.

BALLARAT: Western Bulldogs ruckman Jordan Roughead has shown positive signs in his recovery following a freak eye injury suffered in the club’s historic victory over the Giants. Read more.

BALLINA: A great white shark was seen off Lighthouse Beach in Ballina, on the NSW North Coast, a short time after a teenage boy was bitten on the leg while surfing, police say. Read more.

FORBES: Floodwaters have peaked in Forbes, but residents have been warned that more wet weather forecast for later in the week could cause river levels to rise again. Read more.

DENILIQUIN: Securing Keith Urban as the headline act was a “dream come true” for theDeni Ute Muster team. Read more.

MT ISA: THE 25-YEAR-OLD man alleged to have tried to strangle a police officer at the Mount Isa Races on Saturday has not applied for bail. Read more.

National news

Australia has lost in its claim that an international commission has no jurisdiction to hear a complaint by East Timor in the bitter dispute over undersea oil and gas riches. Read more.

Three federal politicians are calling on whistleblowers to send them poker machine industry secrets with a promise they will be made public using parliamentary privilege. Read more.

High-level talks between the Turnbull government and the opposition on the same-sex marriage plebiscite have achieved nothing but animosity, with both sides blaming each other for a failure to compromise. Read more.

UNITED STATES: An active shooter in Houston may have injured at least six people Monday morning before being shot by police, authorities said. Read more.

INDONESIA: The boyfriend of Byron Bay woman Sara Connor has "come up with the courage" to apologise to the family of a police officer found dead on Kuta beach. Read more.

PHILIPPINES: A seven-months pregnant mother of two has told how a masked assassin accompanied by police shot dead her husband they mistook for a pusher in president Rodrigo Duterte's deadly anti-drugs crackdown across the Philippines. Read more.

1066 - William the Conqueror's troops set sail for England

1290 - Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000

1540 – Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola comfirmed by Pope Paul III in Rome

1779 – John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain

1821 – Mexican Empire declares its independence; Mexican revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw

1822 - French scholar Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone

1905 –  The physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

Facts supplied: onthisday.com

Right now, “Bulldog Ray” Neville is in Swans territory.

This was not how he had dreamed of spending an AFL grand final week, before his beloved Western Bulldogs’ ‘big dance’, but he knows it will be an experience.

Read his story.