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A Melbourne man who fired a gun from his car while out drinking with AFL footballer, Alan Didak, has pleaded guilty to a firearms charge....

A Melbourne man has pleaded guilty to using an unregistered firearm after firing a gun from his car....

Victoria Police say a man scaled four stories of an apartment building in West Melbourne early yesterday morning, trying to break in....

Richmond looked like it had wrapped up an upset victory in its round five AFL clash on Sunday afternoon, before three goals from the Bulldogs levelled the scores and the match finished in a thrilling draw....

A man has been crushed by a large weight that fell from a crane inside a ship at Appleton Dock in Melbourne....

A 33 year old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a Melbourne man last night....

Victoria police are questioning a 33-year-old man over the death of another man in Footscray....

Firefighters say a man who was found dead by his neighbour during a house fire in Melbourne's west last night was murdered....

Yarraville residents angered by the impact of trucks in the area say a protest today has in part been a celebration of the recent Eddington report....

A man is in hospital with serious injuries after being bashed at a service station in West Melbourne....

Apologies for making a selling post. Most of these will probably end up being packed off to second-hand dealerships, but I figure I might as well see here if anybody is interested first. Cheap, because I can't remember in most cases what I payed for them originally, but all in very good condition and some unread. Pick up can be in the city, Footscray or Yarraville... or anywhere between Yarraville and the city, really. Any time of day, any day but Sunday, but it can depend as I'm in casual work.

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Seeing how popular ice skating in the Docklands is every winter, they have set up a semi permanent rink again for the summer season. Ice skating is available between Wednesday and Sunday but on Friday and Saturday night, it's Disco on Ice....Read Full article

In Western Suburbs, contact me at natalie17@gmail.com for number of seller if interested... just doing him a favour. I can't tell you anything about the car except it's auto & well looked after.Sorry can't make the bloody front picture work. You can pm him on his myspace as well...http://www.myspace.com/imgeorgeThanks....

Since everyone is posting skyline photos, I thought I would as well.

I was lucky enough this week to be treated to a ride in a two-seater plane trip over the city. Here's what we look like from the air (roughly southwest):...Read Full article

Coode Island, an almost uninhabited industrial area, is 4 km. west of Melbourne. It was formed in 1886 when canal was cut through the Sandridge swamp to provide a straightened stream for the Yarra River. The boundaries were the canal on the south, the Maribyrnong River on the west and the Yarra meander on the north and east. Its area was 97 ha. It was named after Sir John Coode, an English harbour engineer who was engaged by the Melbourne Harbor Trust to select the optimum route for the canal as part of the Port of Melbourne.

Coode chose the canal route so as to avoid dangerous tidal ebbs and inflows that would occur along one that went straight from the Yarra River docks to Hobsons Bay. Inflows endangered flood-prone land upstream as far as Gardiners Creek, by the banking up of stream waters. The route also ensured that the Yarra waters would discharge into the river mouth, scouring the bay and reducing silt deposition. ...Read Full article

Last year, while flipping through the channels I stumbled upon Anatomy for Beginners, the show where Dr. Gunther von Hagen disects cadaveurs. Almost a year later, I have watched a few more episodes of the show and have learned a bit about plastination, the process of making you into a workable cadaver. Am I ready to go to the next level?...Read Full article

The Docklands is trying to drum up some loyal customers with Slow Sundays.

Each Sunday during August (that's the 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th) from 12-5pm various restaurants are offering $15 meals with a beer/glass of wine. ...Read Full article

I always seem to realize there is ice skating in the city after the fact but not this year. Starting from this Saturday is the Docklands Winter Wonderland. It features a snow dome where there are a multitude of wintry themed activities inside. The main event at the Winter Wonderland is its ice skating, particularly the night skating which features a DJ playing dance and disco music. It's only here for 2 weeks, so book now....Read Full article

The fundamental philosophy of AJAX is to load the static parts of your webpage only once, and request a small amount of information about the bits that change from a server. This makes changing the displayed data much faster.

I have access toPHP on this webserver but I will not dwell on the server side workings, that is up to you! In your application you could use a PHP, PERL, ASP, or any server side language to respond to a query based on user input or map position. ...Read Full article