VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-23-2007
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers = 2

EDS: Clarifies in first par that three carriages sold back to govt



THE AGE

Page 1: In 2002, when the Victorian government decided to scrap and sell its ageing
Hitachi train fleet, it sold half of them for $2,600 a carriage to trainspotter and businessman
John Horne, who last November sold three of them back to the government for $60,000 a
carriage - a 700 per cent profit. Labor and Kevin Rudd retain commanding leads in Age/AcNielsen
polling that shows a Peter Costello-led government would be doing even worse.

Page 2: The search for two teenage girls missing for a week ended tragically yesterday
with the discovery of their bodies in rugged bushland east of Melbourne.

Page 3: A Victorian government ban on the questioning of witnesses at the public inquiry
on the dredging of Port Phillip Bay has outraged lawyers and opened up a new front in
the increasingly bitter battle over channel deepening.

World: The corruption scandal involving British Prime Minister Tony Blair has intensified,
with reports that police have called for charges against several advisers, and a leaked
document revealing his strategy for wooing and flattering wealthy donors.

Finance: Coca-Cola Amatil's mainstream brand, the iconic Coke, has suffered a sizeable
fall in its share of the cola market, with much of the drop in sales caused by the launch
of Coke Zero.

Sport: A deflated Neale Daniher - his team not only winless but now savaged by injury
- almost seemed resigned last night to AFL club Melbourne having a long, hard winter.

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