VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
12-06-1999
VIC: Main Stories in today s Melbourne newspapers

MELBOURNE, Dec 6 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers:



HERALD SUN

Page 1 - Police are alarmed by a big increase in violent attacks on young girls; Channel
Nine star Kerri-Anne Kennerley has quit the network.

Page 2 - Thousands of motorists are driving cars with potentially fatal seatbelts after
ignoring pleas from manufacturers to have them checked.

Page 3 - CityLink tolling delays are causing traffic chaos along the $550 million Western
Link, with peak hour commuters battling bottlenecks at every exit.

World - Iran is said to have accelerated its aid to terrorists and may be helping plot
attacks on Israeli or Jewish targets (Washington); Fierce winter storms leave at least
17 people dead and scores injured in northern Europe (Copenhagen); Russian forces yesterday
surrounded the Chechan capital, Grozny, and were preparing to advance amid allegations
troops had massacred civilians (Sleptsovsk, Russia).

Finance - Richard Branson will consider a public float of his proposed Virgin Australia
airline; Executive pay will come under even closer scrutiny from the Australian Shareholders
Association next year; Small retailers will be hit with steeper wages bills after the
state government unveiled its one-off millennium holiday package last week.

Sport - Australian 1,500 metre swimmer Kieren Perkins has declared himself back on
track in his pursuit of a third Olympic gold medal; West Australian cricketer Mike Hussey
broke a bat and a record and took the ball to break the back of Victoria at the MCG yesterday.

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