Vic: Main stories in today's 1200 3AW news

AAP General News (Australia)
12-19-2007
Vic: Main stories in today's 1200 3AW news

MELBOURNE, Dec 19 AAP - Main stories in today's 1200 3AW news:

- Thirty-six years after an Australian soldier was killed in Vietnam, his remains are
brought home to Melbourne.

- Police divers retrieve bodies of two young children who drowned in a Queensland dam.

- A mother of four fears the family will spend Christmas in a shelter after they were
ordered to leave their rental home.

- Police step up hunt for three men who robbed a convenience store yesterday armed
with a samurai sword and axe.

- Copper thieves caused commuter chaos this morning with four rail boomgates across
Melbourne out of action.

- A tram brings down power lines at Flemington.

- Indian cricketers train this afternoon at the MCG.

- Workplace Relations Minister Julia Gillard said coalition will be to blame if Work
Choices' abolition is delayed.

- Taxi operators want a fare increase to compensate for higher LPG prices.

- Struggling shopping centre owner Centro Properties' shares up 51 cents to $1.32.

- All Ordinaries up 14 points with the Aussie dollar at US$86.14.

- Anti-doping authorities investigate Australian baseballer Jeff Williams for using
performance enhancing drugs.

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