Vic: Main stories in today's 1800 Nine News

AAP General News (Australia)
12-27-2007
Vic: Main stories in today's 1800 Nine News

MELBOURNE, Dec 27 AAP - Main stories on tonight's National Nine News bulletin:

- Victorian police will trial an American-style crackdown on New Year's Eve troublemakers.

- Police have refuted suggestions they have been heavy-handed with misbehaving cricket
fans at the MCG.

- Police are investigating how a woman pedestrian was struck and killed by a car in
Flinders Street.

- A man has perished in a house fire in Coburg North.

- Six people have been injured in a multi-vehicle smash on the Princes Freeway at Altona North.

- Premier John Brumby has conceded that Melbourne motorists will have to put up with
traffic chaos, but as a short-term measure to ease the squeeze VicRoads is considering
tough new penalties for those who park in clearways.

- A father of five bashed to death with a cricket bat he used during a family game
of beach cricket on a WA beach was a close family friend of Test cricketer Adam Gilchrist.

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