Morning Buzz: Sydney news, traffic and weather for Friday, December 9

It is set to be a sunny day with tops of 26 degrees across the Sydney region.

KINGSGROVE: Traffic is affected on the M5 East Motorway between King Georges Road and Kingsgrove Road following an earlier truck fire. There is still diesel spilled on the motorway.

BRING BACK THE HAT: When Fairfield Liverpool Cricket Association president Peter Moore was younger he thought he was “bulletproof.” As a cricket player, coach, administrator and umpire he spent countless hours in the sun. But he never thought about how important wearing a hat was.

MAGICAL CASTLE: The St Mary's Cathedral underwent a dramatic transformation on Thursday night, turning into a magical castle as part of a free show that will continue until Christmas Day.

NEW STADIUM REVEALED: Parramatta will be transformed into a world class sport and entertainment hub when a new 30,000-seat stadium opens in 2019.

EGG-CITING FIND: With the technology around these days, it’s hard to impress kids. But the excitement in the voices of three boys, who watched a Jacky Lizard laying eggs in Royal National Park, shows it takes a lot to beat what nature has to offer.

CURRENCY INVESTIGATION: Police investigations into the alleged distribution of counterfeit currency in Sydney’s south-west will continue after a man was charged on Tuesday.

BOMB SCARE: Unattended objects discovered during a bomb scare in Penrith yesterday will be forensically examined by police.

DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS: Princes Highway has the most dangerous intersections in the Sutherland Shire and St George area, according to statistics gathered over the past five years.

TOP 10 THINGS: Facebook has analysed Australians' posts for 2016 to create a snapshot of the year – which this time doubles as a catalogue of this year's biggest news stories.

HEALTH SNAPSHOT: Doctors worked long hours without taking adequate leave, emergency departments could not meet their targets and in one year 20 patients had surgical equipment left inside their bodies.

PROTEST UNDERWAY: The bulldozers are preparing to knock down his former home in St Peters to make way for the $16.8 billion WestConnex motorway after it was compulsorily acquired by the state government.

ANTENNA ANGER: Parents of more than 3000 children are upset at a controversial plan to install an Optus antenna across the road from two Cherrybrook schools.

TRIBUTE TO HILLS MAYORESS: Dedicated community volunteer and mother of two Robyn Hay has been remembered as a woman who loved music, her community and most of all her family.

DATING SCIENCE: A Hawkesbury psychologist wants the area’s lonely people to get scientific about finding a partner, and she aims to help them do it.

TOXIC MOONSHINE: A shop owner has been charged with selling toxic moonshine that killed three people near the north-western NSW town of Collarenebri.

MIX UP: A Sydney businessman has returned to his Bankstown property to find it in pieces, in a terrible mix-up that saw a demolition company knock down the wrong home. 

CHEEKY ATTIRE: The latest product from Lenah Game Meats is causing quite the stir. It’s less about cuts of loin, and more about loin clothes: it’s a wallaby fur g-string.

WANDERING CHEER: The Western Sydney Wanderers have brought some Christmas cheer to children in need as they visited the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

GEALE’S FUTURE ON ICE: Harrington Grove’s Daniel Geale has never been one to back down from a challenge – the 35-year-old faced many of them during his rise to the top of boxing’s world rankings.

DARLINGTON SHINES: Westfields Sports High School cricketer Hannah Darlington has ticked a lot of things off her cricket bucket list for 2016. Now only one thing remains.