competition: Today's Headlines [July 2]

The father of 2 children allegedly killed by their grandfather identified their bodies today as their NSW police officer mother recovered from surgery for an axe blow to the head.

The policewoman was today conscious in a Sydney hospital after being placed in an induced coma following an operation yesterday on a fractured skull.

She ran bleeding to her neighbour's home in Brougham Street, Cowra, shortly after 2pm on Monday, after finding the bodies of her 52-year-old mother, seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter.

The policewoman's axe wounds were allegedly inflicted by her 69-year-old father at his weatherboard home in the central NSW