Melbourne blackout as wild winds lash Vic and other top stories.

• Melbourne blackout as wild winds lash Vic

  Helen VelissarisAustralian Associated PressHundreds of people have been left without power in Melbourne after wild winds uprooted trees and brought down powerlines.Winds of more than 93km/h hit the city on Sunday, with about 600 people hit by the blackouts.The worst hit areas were Sunshine in the northwest and Kilsyth in the northeast.The SES has received more than 400 calls for assistance since midnight on Sunday, mostly over fallen trees and building damage throughout the city.The Bureau of Me..

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• NRL grand final 2016: Melbourne Storm v Cronulla Sharks, live scores

  

  Good night! Thanks for joining me each Saturday, and today, for the last 30 weeks! It's been an amazing year iced by a storybook result in the biggest game of the season. See you at the Four Nations! Cronulla presser "At the end of the day I knew we had the talent to win this game," said captain Paul Gallen. "And, you know we did that. "When they scored, we couldn't drop our shoulders. We had to relax and stick to our systems. Fiifita was outstanding. We couldn't go around them, we had to go t..

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• Hartnell brings Sydney form to Melbourne

  

  Hartnell brings Sydney form to MelbourneAAP12:00AM October 3, 2016SaveHartnell has brought his rare Sydney spring carnival form to Melbourne, producing a breathtaking display to easily win in the Group I Turnbull Stakes at Flemington yesterday. Giving trainer John O’Shea his first Melbourne Group I win since becoming Godolphin’s head trainer in Australia, Hartnell backed up his recent big-margin wins in the Chelmsford and Hill Stakes at Randwick with a 3¼ length romp in the 2000m feature.But the..

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• Peter Gordon hopes Melbourne and St Kilda can become the AFL's ...

  

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• Quiet weekend concludes hot start to Melbourne spring auction market

  

  The Melbourne home auction market went into significant pause mode on Saturday, with buyers and sellers distracted by the seemingly irresistible lure of the AFL grand final. The handful of auctions that were conducted nonetheless produced a strong clearance rate and provided another measure of the strength of the early spring market. Saturday’s 87.1 per cent result was higher than the 79.6 per cent the previous weekend and significantly higher than the 56 per cent reported over the same grand f..

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• Luxury apartments projects for Sydney and Melbourne

  

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• Almandin on Melbourne Cup mission

  

  Almandin (Image: Racing Photos) Any horse that can follow a win in a race named after Harry White with victory in a race seven days later in a race named after Bart Cummings deserves to race in the Melbourne Cup and so it is with imported horse Almandin. No rider has ridden more than the four Melbourne Cup winners that White rode and of course, no trainer has come near the 12 Melbourne Cup winners that Cummings trained and so Almandin goes into next month’s $6.2 million race with some cred..

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