VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
08-18-2006
VIC: Main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers

MELBOURNE, Aug 18 AAP - The main stories in today's Melbourne newspapers:



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Page 1: A teacher accused of murdering US child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey says he
loved her but killed her by accident.

Page 2: The man arrested for the murder of JonBenet Ramsey was given access to young
children around the world and had visited Sydney in recent years.

Page 3: Leaked documents reportedly show the number of police patrols in Victoria have
been cut despite the government's claims of more police on the beat; Qantas will hit its
international passengers with another fuel levy rise; Schapelle Corby has had two months
shaved off her 20-year drug-smuggling sentence.

World: The plot to blow up jets over the Atlantic was intended to mark the September
11 anniversary, intelligence sources have revealed; Former Paraguayan dictator Alfredo
Stroessner has died in exile; Singer Grace Jones sued by her landlords who say she wrecked
a $3.7m flat in London.

Finance: Coles Myer has emerged as a takeover target, while Bluescope Steel has weighed
into the battle for control of the local steel sector; Qantas plans to tough out the latest
fuel crisis by slashing 1,000 jobs and ridding its balance sheet of loss-making businesses.

Sport: Essendon boss Kevin Sheedy has no plans to place James Hird in cotton wool in
his final AFL season next year; Anthony Koutoufides signs one-year Carlton contract for
$250,000.

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