VIC:Main stories on Nine News

AAP General News (Australia)
12-07-2010
VIC:Main stories on Nine News

MELBOURNE, Dec 7 AAP - Main stories in Nine News:

- Bomber Thompson has fronted a media conference at Windy Hill saying it is time to
hang up his hat as a senior coach at Geelong.

- England cricket great Sir Ian Botham is threatening legal action after allegedly
following reports he was involved in a physical "dust-up" with long-time foe Ian Chappell
in the Adelaide Oval car park.

- England have moved a step closer to retaining the Ashes after winning the first round
of the 2010 contest in Adelaide.

- Police have released footage of an injured man who was assaulted during a home invasion
in Melbourne's southeast on Tuesday.

- The parents of a baby who mysteriously died have described their daughter's death
as tragic as police continue investigations.

- A faulty speed camera has been detected by the Nine Network on the Nepean Highway
in the bayside suburb of Highett.

- A former senior police officer has avoided jail after tipping off a friend who managed
a strip bar about unidentified licence inspectors.

- Security is being boosted at Geelong Magistrates Court ahead of a hearing on Wednesday
into the jailhouse murder of gangland killer Carl Williams.

- Online sales are booming in the lead-up to Christmas while retailers are struggling
to attract shoppers into stores.

- American-born former boxer, chiropractor and actor Gus Mercurio has died.

- The Oprah roadshow has officially begun in Sydney with a private dinner party in
Toorak expected to host the talk show queen on Friday evening.

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