Mayoral Message | Forbes 2025 Highlights ✨ As we approach the end of 2025, we are proud to reflect on the incredible progress and achievements across our community this year. ✅ Lake Forbes is more vibrant than ever with new spaces for recreation and events ✅ Spooners Oval Grandstand is almost complete - opening early 2026 ✅ Safer, smoother roads thanks to our Urban Reseal Program ✅ Population growth supported by strong economic investment and exciting developments ✅ Record numbers at the Forbes

📺 ' The 1000th Grandstand' Saturday 11 October 1975 - BBC1: 12:00 'Grandstand celebrates its 1000th show and with it a new Grandstand theme is debuted. A theme tune that has gleaned so much affection and which remained until the final show in January 2007. A big band number, it opens with a timpani and brass fanfare. Dum dum. A superb entry into this classic tune. Once the music begins we are led to the “BONG!” which was timed perfectly to fit in with a boxer’s punch or a stray football shot. A