Melbourne weather: Hottest February night in six years and other top stories.

• Melbourne weather: Hottest February night in six years

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Victoria swelters through overnight heat It may have been difficult to get to sleep on Tuesday, with Victorians sweating through the warmest February night in years. PT1M14S 620 349 Struggled to sleep last night? You weren't alone.It was Melbourne's hottest February night in six years, and the warmest night this year.The mercury soared to 39.4 degrees on Tuesday afternoon, as bushfires raged near Ballarat and Frankston, destroying two homes and d..

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• Fox Hunt: Melbourne grandmother Zhou Shiqin in Beijing's sights

  

  Melbourne grandmother Zhou Shiqin is one of China's most wanted. Every night, for six months, she slept with her phone on the pillow, waiting for a call that would never come.Now Zhou Shiqin is waiting again, this time to see if her quiet life in south-east suburban Melbourne is about to be taken from her, as China announces a renewed push to repatriate its wanted criminals hiding overseas.Ms Zhou, a small, mild-mannered grandmother with short, loose curls, ra..

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• Andrews to Turnbull: give us $4.5b for Melbourne Metro rail tunnel

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Melbourne Metro: animated aerial overview Follow the planned Sunbury Line via Arden, the CBD and across the river to South Yarra. (Vision supplied by Victoria State Government) PT1M50S 620 349 Premier Daniel Andrews wants the Turnbull government to hand over $4.5 billion to help build a new rail tunnel through Melbourne's CBD, arguing the project must proceed if Melbourne is to "take advantage of growth rather than grind to a halt".The amount is..

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• Truck hits same Melbourne rail bridge one day after bus crash

  

  A truck has smashed into a rail bridge in Melbourne, the same bridge a bus crashed into yesterday. (Twitter: @Lisa_Wilkinson) A truck has hit the same Melbourne bridge which peeled the roof off a bus yesterday.The Port Melbourne-bound truck collided with the Montague Bridge in South Melbourne just before 6pm.Victoria Police said no one was injured in the crash, and the truck has since been removed. TODAY Show co-host Lisa Wilkinson snapped a picture of the crash from a taxi moments after the ac..

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• Doughnut Time Opens First Permanent Store in Melbourne This Week

  

  There's an Espresso Martini doughnut on the menu. For a while it seemed as though the (sugar) dust from Melbourne’s doughnut boom had settled. We had Doughboys, Shortstop, Matt Forbes – plus a stack of others that took us two guides to compile. The proverbial hole was filled. Then Doughnut Time dropped out of the sky. Or technically, Brisbane. It has announced an ambitious expansion of four permanent stores in Melbourne, on top of its 14 existing stores across Australia. After two pop-ups a..

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• Year 11 student from Melbourne's Huntingtower School dies on ...

  

  A 17-year-old Melbourne student has died while on a school camp in outback South Australia.The Year 11 student from Mount Waverley’s Huntingtower School died last night while at a camp at the Plumbago cattle and sheep station, near Broken Hill.He reported feeling unwell four to five hours into the first hike of the camp yesterday.  He was treated by paramedics but died after his conditioned worsened.His cause of death is yet to be determined but is believed to be due to natural causes.The Royal..

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• VIDEO: A huge crane collapsed in Melbourne after catching on fire

  

  A massive crane on a St Kilda road building site in Melbourne collapsed yesterday following an electrical fire in the motor which spread to the cabin. The incident occurred at the $60 million, 19-storey Parque Apartments development at 557 St Kilda Road on the corner of Moubray Road, next to Wesley College. The crane’s gantry arm fell to the ground as nine fire crews battled to extinguish the blaze as the remaining structure teetered. Asher Wolf was witness to the unfolding drama and capture..

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• Melbourne apartment deluge engulfs middle suburbs

  

  More than 24,000 apartments were offered for sale in 2015 Wayne Taylor Nearly one in five new Melbourne apartments is being developed, sold and constructed more than 10 kilometres from the city centre as the traditional suburban house-with-a-backyard dream falls further out of reach of many prospective buyers.According to the latest Melbourne Apartment Market Snapshot by Charter Keck Cramer and the Urban Development Institute of Australia, 60 o..

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