Rail line pledge buoys Coker and other top stories.

• Rail line pledge buoys Coker

  

  Bill Shorten manufacturing announcement in Geelong1:22Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten announces close to $60 million in transition support to assist manufacturing in Australia. Courtesy: AAP LABOR pledged $1 million to plan for the duplication of the rail line between Waurn Ponds and South Geelong today.Opposition Leader Bill Shorten made the announcement at Waurn Ponds Train Station today alongside Corangamite Labor candidate Libby Coker.“Waurn Ponds is one of the great suburbs of Austra..

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• Road funds target deadliest roads

  

  SOME of the region’s dead­liest roads are set to receive long-awaited upgrades.The announcement, part of a $340 million State Government spend to improve Vic­toria’s worst black spots. identifies Geelong-Bacchus Marsh Rd as a priority for ­improvements.The road, which has had seven fatalities over five years, will be upgraded to ­include flexible centre-line barriers and rumble strips to better separate traffic and reduce head-on crashes.In 2013, a Geelong Advertiser special report revealed in a..

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• Thieves try new angle to beat meters

  

  Thieves used an angle grinder to gain access to parking meters.THIEVES are using angle grinders to steal cash from central Geelong parking meters.CIU detectives are investigating three incidents on privately operated meters near Officeworks, at Cunningham Pier and off Corio St.The raids follow a spate of thefts of meters operated by the City of Greater Geelong.Detective Senior-Constable Scott Gray, of Geelong CIU, said meters were cut open beside and behind Officeworks, off Malop St, about 6am o..

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• Derm: Numbers say Geelong deserve premiership favouritism

  

  The numbers behind Geelong’s blistering 7-1 start to season 2016 show that the Cats deserve to be premiership favourites, says Dermott Brereton. The former Hawthorn legend says that Geelong are best side in the competition at the moment, despite sitting second on the ladder behind the undefeated North Melbourne. “They’re going really well. They have got some super numbers next to their names,” Brereton said on SEN’s The Run Home. “Their personnel and the way we know that personnel... as long i..

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• Smart money on cost-effective Cats

  

  GeelongGeelong Cats the most cost-effective team in the AFL, MP findsMay 16, 2016 10:38amALEX SINNOTTGeelong Advertiser

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• Worried resident predicted fatality

  

  A 19-year-old driver smashed into the bus shlter before crashing through a paddock.CERES residents have told of their concerns about speeding drivers and inadequate road infrastructure after the death of a 19-year-old student on Friday night. The woman, a student at Marcus Oldham College who was originally from Queensland, was killed instantly when she lost control of her white Holden hatchback on Barrabool Rd near the intersection with Cochranes and Gully roads.The car crashed through a bus she..

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