Police charge a 19-year-old man in relation to a two-vehicle crash that left a woman and an unborn baby dead near Newcastle.

The New South Wales District Court has heard Warren John McCorriston will face charges in Queensland after he is sentenced for ambushing a teenager in an attempted kidnapping near Newcastle in 1980.

Paramedics were unable to save the man reportedly trapped under equipment in the Newcastle Airport precinct.

From education, disaster responses and housing, the NSW government has unveiled its spending and saving plans for the coming financial year.

Cybersecurity specialists warn a "very cheap coding trick" is being spruiked as a high-tech anti-fraud measure on digital drivers licences.

Regulators approve a product grown from animal cells in a factory setting, putting Australia among only a handful of countries around the world to have deemed it safe for sale, while several countries and US states have banned it. 

Newcastle's Matt Stonham, who is living with a rare form of brain cancer, is about to embark on the trek of a lifetime for brain cancer research.