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Melbourne Express: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 and other top stories.

  • Melbourne Express: Wednesday, August 17, 2016

    Melbourne Express: Wednesday, August 17, 2016
    That's it for Melbourne Express. I'm taking a well earning break from the early morning starts and will be back in early October.  Melbourne Express will continue, so check in for your morning primer on the news, travel and weather. Contact Craig Butt via email with great photographs and tip offs for the blog. I'll leave you with some beautiful photographs from around the world chosen by The Age's picture editor Leigh Henningham.  Have a brilliant day.   Photo gallery Picture Editor's Choice..
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  • Man fights for life after stabbing

    Man fights for life after stabbing
    A man suffered life-threatening injuries after a fight broke out in Ascot Vale.A MAN is fighting for his life after a brutal stabbing in Melbourne overnight.Police said the 27-year-old remains in a critical condition after he was attacked during a fight in Ascot Vale.Police arrived at the unit block in Melbourne’s north about 9.20pm and found a man bleeding profusely.He was rushed to Royal Melbourne Hospital where he remains in a critical condition.Police said the man was injured after a fight b..
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  • Plan to turn Camberwell Junction into Melbourne's own Times Square

    Plan to turn Camberwell Junction into Melbourne's own Times Square
    Times Square in New York City. Can Melbourne recreate this?COME on Melbourne. This has got to stop. Maybe you should just be Melbourne, and not try and become all these other cities.First you tried to develop a project that would rival Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge climb and now you’re planning to create your own Times Square?Sure Melbourne, you have a certain charm, but you’re a far cry from Manhattan.Times Square is a major pedestrian plaza in the middle of New York City, with billboards, adv..
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  • Fringe art fairs take over the town in the wake of Melbourne Art Fair's ...

    Fringe art fairs take over the town in the wake of Melbourne Art Fair's ...
    In February, the Melbourne Art Foundation announced that after 28 years and 14 biennial events, it was cancelling the Melbourne Art Fair, a marketplace for contemporary artists and galleries from the Asia-Pacific region. The announcement came in the wake of some high-profile galleries withdrawing from the event in recent years, among them Melbourne's Anna Schwartz Gallery and Tolarno Galleries. The costs of exhibiting at the event and a preference for showing at international fairs were cited ..
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  • North Melbourne midfielder Sam Gibson suffers broken nose in gym ...

    North Melbourne midfielder Sam Gibson suffers broken nose in gym ...
    NORTH Melbourne coach Brad Scott is bullish his depleted Kangaroos can still launch an assault on the finals.North face cutthroat games against Sydney in Tasmania then GWS at Etihad Stadium to finish the regular season, needing victory in at least one to guarantee finals qualification.“We’re certainly not playing our very best footy, but we get some players back, and players who are out there we think can perform a lot better,” Scott said.“It’s not just about getting there (finals), that would i..
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  • Port of Melbourne investors nervous as legal disputes grow

    Port of Melbourne investors nervous as legal disputes grow
    Legal action by stevedores at Port of Melbourne is worrying bidders for the port's lease. Craig Abraham Bidders for the $6 billion Port of Melbourne lease are becoming increasingly nervous as two of the three stevedores at the port are engaged in legal action weeks away from when final bids are due.Patrick, which is a subsidiary of Asciano, is the latest to be engaged in legal action against the Port of Melbourne Corporation over a wording in ..
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  • Melbourne man sentenced to 25 years jail for ex-partner's stabbing ...

    Melbourne man sentenced to 25 years jail for ex-partner's stabbing ...
    Mel Buttigieg - Yahoo7 News on August 17, 2016, 11:17 am A Melbourne man who stabbed the mother of his four children to death in frenzied daylight attack, after she had taken out an intervention order against him, has been sentenced to 25 years.Melbourne man Craig McDermott is behind bars after the stabbing death of his former partner of 18 years Fiona Warzywoda (pictured) in a shopping centre car park. Picture: 7 NewsCraig McDermott, 39, was found guilty in May of stabbing ..
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  • Missing Melbourne mother Karen Ristevski: Friend said she would ...

    Missing Melbourne mother Karen Ristevski: Friend said she would ...
    Krystal Johnson - Yahoo7 News on August 17, 2016, 10:54 am A friend of missing Melbourne mother Karen Ristevski believes she didn't run away otherwise "would have made contact" with her daughter if she had.Mrs Ristevski, 47, was last seen on June 29 at her Avondale Heights home after an argument about money with her husband Borce Ristevski.Karen is pictured with her daughter Sarah and husband Borce. Photo: 7 NewsSix weeks on, her disappearance has prompted large-scale police..
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  • Melbourne set for unusually hot August day, but there's a catch

    Melbourne set for unusually hot August day, but there's a catch
    VICTORIANS are being warned to batten down the hatches with a warm, but blustery day expected tomorrow.The state could see the first day above 20 degrees in three months, but the Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for damaging winds across Melbourne and southwest Victoria.media_cameraThe sun shines down Bourke St. Picture: Nicole Garmston“It’s looking like we’re going to break 20 degrees. If it does it’ll be the hottest day since the 22nd of May,” BOM duty forecaster Chris..
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  • North Melbourne champion Brent Harvey will retire if the Kangaroos ...

    North Melbourne champion Brent Harvey will retire if the Kangaroos ...
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