Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Melbourne Celebrates Its 181st Birthday In Style and other top stories.

  • Melbourne Celebrates Its 181st Birthday In Style

    Melbourne Celebrates Its 181st Birthday In Style
    Unless you're one of about 4 million Melbournians, you probably didn't know that today is officially Melbourne Day. That's right, Melbourne has its very own special day, every single year. And to mark the occasion this morning, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle hoisted the city's flag along with some locals dressed up as first settlers. There's also a big concert planned, with Daddy Cool frontman Ross Wilson headlining a free lunchtime bash at Federation Square. Get ready to rock, Melbourne: See how..
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  • Melbourne Cup first nominations announced

    Melbourne Cup first nominations announced
    Prince Of Penzance winning last year's Melbourne Cup (Image: Darren McNamara) Former champions Prince Of Penzance and Protectionist headline the first nominations for the 2016 Emirates Melbourne Cup, released on Tuesday. While 2014 winner Protectionist is fairly unlikely to take his place at Flemington, there are a swathe of internationals vying to follow in the German galloper's hoof-steps after his devastating victory two years back. Among the potential raiders are Japanese star and dual..
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  • Melbourne Express: Tuesday, August 30, 2016

    Melbourne Express: Tuesday, August 30, 2016
    Correction: The Melbourne Day concert starts at noon today and finishes at 2pm.  In an earlier post in this blog I wrote that it started at 2pm.    That's all for today's blog. Have a great day.  VIDEO   Here are the answers to the Melbourne Express superquiz.  1) Thor (98% of people who took the quiz got this one correct) 2) Malfoy (76%) 3) 1933 (47%) 4) Your hand (69%)  5) Sweden (8% - although this was one of the three point questions)  Reader Traci was first to get five out of five.   ..
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  • Melbourne's lifeblood: How the Yarra River has changed over the ...

    Melbourne's lifeblood: How the Yarra River has changed over the ...
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  • Melbourne 2016 end of season Report Card

    Melbourne 2016 end of season Report Card
    AFTER three years, the Paul Roos era at Melbourne has come to an end. In the coach’s final year in charge, the Dees were in the finals hunt until round 22. Fox Footy looks at what went right for Melbourne in 2016, what went wrong and what decisions they need to make from here. .Source: FOX SPORTSTHREE-WORD ANALYSISIMPROVING but inconsistentWHAT WENT RIGHTTHE Demons improved again in 2016, winning 10 games. They also secured their first real “big scalp” with an impressive victory over Hawthorn in..
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  • Tree crashes into Melbourne home, family lucky to escape uninjured

    Tree crashes into Melbourne home, family lucky to escape uninjured
    Tree crashes into Melbourne home, family lucky to escape uninjured Posted August 30, 2016 09:25:05 A family who recently moved into their new home in Melbourne's east say it is a miracle nobody was injured when a tree crashed into their house overnight. The tree fell on the property on Caroline Street, Kalorama, around 2:30am.Fabiano Morais said he rescued one child from a bedroom before he went to rescue another."I heard this big crash, this big noise and then I star..
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  • Miss Universe: Melbourne makes 2017 final bid

    Miss Universe: Melbourne makes 2017 final bid
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  • Melbourne Spring Fashion Week's town hall opening gala ...

    Melbourne Spring Fashion Week's town hall opening gala ...
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  • Brake failure blamed for United Airlines Boeing 747 crash at ...

    Brake failure blamed for United Airlines Boeing 747 crash at ...
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  • study finds creatine levels could affect baby birth size

    study finds creatine levels could affect baby birth size
    Melbourne study finds creatine levels could affect baby birth size Updated August 30, 2016 13:30:30 The level of the nutrient creatine in a pregnant woman could affect the size of their baby, Melbourne researchers say.An early study by the Hudson Institute of Medical Research showed women who had less of the naturally occurring acid in their urine had significantly smaller babies.Dr Hayley Dickinson, head of embryology at Hudson Institute and Monash University's Ritchie..
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