Phillip Hughes: Macksville remembers a special hero

By Christian Knight
Updated November 28 2014 - 3:33pm, first published 3:00pm
Former Macksville High School principal Peter O'Neill
Former Macksville High School principal Peter O'Neill

TO AUSTRALIAN cricket fans and those across the globe, Phillip Hughes carved his name as a swashbuckling modern day legend, but in his hometown of Macksville on the NSW North Coast, it was his unaffected attitude to life as much as anything that made him a giant of the community.