Oval could be named after Cats legend and other top stories.

• Oval could be named after Cats legend

  

  Michael Hickinbotham, MP Richard Marles and Cats vice-president Bob Gartland are pushing for Corio Oval to be renamed in honour of Dave Hickinbotham. Pictures: Alison WyndMICHAEL Hickinbotham grew up knowing the formidable legend of his great-grandfather, Geelong Cats great Dave and hopes one of the city’s sacred sporting domains will soon carry his name.Mr Hickinbotham, of Adelaide, has added his vital voice to a passionate push by Corio MP Richard Marles to have a ground near the site of Geelo..

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• Craig Alexander Chases Five Geelong Ironman 70.3 Titles

  

  Geelong, VIC. (February 5, 2016) – Five-time world champion Craig Alexander will be aiming to keep his perfect record intact at IRONMAN 70.3 Geelong. Alexander, with three IRONMAN® and two IRONMAN® 70.3® world titles to his credit, is four from four in Geelong after winning in 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2015. The race, on Sunday 7 February, doubles as the Australian Long Course Championship and comprises a 1.9km swim at Eastern Beach, 90km two-lap bike course and 21km two-lap run along the waterfront..

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• Could Oberon High close?

  

  Oberon High School’s enrolment numbers are dwindling.SECONDARY  schools in Geelong’s southern suburbs will be put under the spotlight, with a State Government review set to examine their potential to meet population growth from boom suburbs including Armstrong Creek.But the Government says a decision on whether to amalgamate or relocate any of the schools — Belmont High, Oberon High and Grovedale College — will be left to the school communities.It comes as enrolment numbers at Oberon High contin..

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• Internet helps lifestyle changes: report

  

  Internet helps lifestyle changes: report

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• Victorian paceman Jake Reed indebted to cricket for turning his life ...

  

  Picking up the pace: Jake Reed doing what he loves best ... playing cricket. Photo: Joe Armao If Jake Reed makes his return to Victoria's team in coming weeks he will not take it for granted.The obvious reason for that is because it will have come after two years in which the fast bowler has been plagued by injury.The less obvious, but more pertinent, reason is that cricket has provided him a way out of a lifestyle that was taking him "off the rails".Reed ma..

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• Plane wreck recovered, but body still missing

  

  Wreckage from the plane that crashed off the shore at Barwon Heads has been shipped to Melbourne by barge. Picture: David CroslingTHE body of a fourth person who died in a plane crash off Barwon Heads remains missing despite recovery of the aircraft fuselage.Search and rescue divers and Water Police transported the plane’s engine block, propeller and a section of fuselage to Yarraville by barge Sunday morning after having lifted it from the sea bed late on Saturday afternoon.Teams used a remote ..

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• Trump to be on stage for Republican debate

  

  Donald Trump will be on stage for the last US Republican debate before the New Hampshire primary.Trump to be on stage for Republican debateThis time there will be seven Republicans on the stage, and this time, Donald Trump will be among them.The last debate before the New Hampshire primary is set to be held on Saturday night (1200 Sunday AEDT) in Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in the north-eastern US state.The field of candidates has shrunk since the Iowa caucuses on Monday.After po..

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• Canada bobsled track visit kills two

  

  Canada bobsled track visit kills twoTwo young men have died and six others are injured after using their personal sleds and toboggans to go down a luge-bobsled track after hours at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary.Calgary police said on Saturday that emergency crews received a call from an employee at the WinSport Canada facility in northwest Calgary at 1.30am after a report of several injured people on a closed track.Inspector Kelly Campbell says that part way down the track the male teenager..

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• Anti-Islam group stages Europe protests

  

  Thousands across Europe have rallied against migrants, at protests staged by an anti-Islam group.Anti-Islam group stages Europe protestsGermany's anti-Islam PEGIDA movement has staged rallies in several cities across Europe to protest against the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa.The movement, whose name stands for Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West, originated in the eastern German city of Dresden in 2014, with supporters seizing ..

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• Coin designer Stuart Devlin reflects on decimal currency's 50th ...

  

  Stuart Devlin's Candelabrum for the 5th Duke of Westminster is 3 metres long. Photo: supplied Decimal currency's arrival on St Valentine's Day 50 years ago required a public education program. Simple enough. "Even morons can count up to 10," a business academic helpfully offered at the time. Clearly, a little more sophistication was required.In the three-year lead up to Currency Day – or C-Day as it was called – the campaign included school talks, reassuring..

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