Monday March 1 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter

PFAS foams have been banned from fire fighting training in NSW from today, with further restrictions on their use in extinguishers to take effect in 18 months' time. POLICE say a man who suffered critical head injuries when he fell from a moving vehicle at Mayfield in December had moments earlier been punching the windscreen while lying across the car’s roof. The biggest shipment of coronavirus vaccine doses to arrive in Australia so far touched down in Sydney on Sunday morning, with 300,000 AstraZeneca doses reaching our shores. The Hunter's littlest surf lifesavers were all smiles after fierce competition at the NSW Surf Lifesaving Championships in Lake Macquarie. And those with a certain flair for hair flocked to Kurri on the weekend for the 2021 Mulletfest.