FROM the moment Phillip Hughes’ coffin was carried into the Macksville Recreational Hall to the moment he was carried out, this was a beautiful occasion. When Phillip Hughes returned home to ...

Phillip Hughes has been farewelled at a moving funeral service attended by an estimated 5,000 people in his home town of Macksville. Hughes, who died last week as a result of the injuries he suffered ...

AUSTRALIAN captain Michael Clarke has arrived in Phillip Hughes’s hometown of Macksville ahead of his good friend’s funeral on Wednesday. Clarke arrived by helicopter this morning, landing in town ...

ON a happier occasion the familiar figures walking down the road to the Macksville High School hall might have been treading a red carpet. Shane Warne and Brian Lara. Alan Jones with Shane Lee and ...

Around 2000 people gathered to farewell Australian cricket player Phillip Hughes who was inconceivably felled at the famous wicket eight days earlier. The Bradman and Noble stands projected Hughes' ...

CRICKET greats Shane Warne, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting will rub shoulders with the farming community of Macksville for the funeral of Phillip Hughes. Tributes to Phil Hughes at a shop window in the ...

The town is preparing to host the largest public funeral since the death of World War II Victoria Cross recipient Frank Partridge in 1964. WATCH LIVE: Thousands prepare to farewell Phillip Hughes ...

MACKSVILLE, Australia (Reuters) - Selected quotes from eulogies and tributes to Phillip Hughes on Wednesday as Australia bid farewell to the cricketer at his funeral in his hometown of Macksville, New ...

Ryan Harris claimed Phillip Hughes' funeral has convinced a number of Australia's Test players they must play against India next week. While the traditional first Test in Brisbane has already been ...

Shane Warne and Brian Lara. Alan Jones with Shane Lee and Damien Martyn. Anthony Mundine and Greg Inglis. Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten. Sportsmen, celebrities and politicians united by their grief.