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• Bomb squad investigates object under van in Grovedale, Geelong | HeraldSun

  

  A suspicious package was found under a van after it was burnt out in a suspicious fire. Picture: Peter RistevskiTHE bomb squad has cleared a scare sparked by an unknown object found under a burnt-out van near Geelong.Fire crews and police attended Birrilee Court, Grovedale around 3.30am this morning after a suspicious van fire.Police investigate at the scene.After the blaze was extinguished, a search revealed “another suspicious package” and the bomb squad were called, with residents sent a text..

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• Our five best chicken sangas

  

  Jarrod Lee tucks into a chicken and salad roll from Geelong Bakehouse. Pictures: Peter RistevskiFOOD trends seem to come and go but when it comes to lunch options, the chicken sanga is timeless and hard to beat.With reports that humble chicken rolls, sandwiches, baguettes and focaccias in Geelong’s CBD cafes and delis were becoming too expensive, we hit the streets — on a tight budget — to find five good-value chicken sangas.VOTE FOR THE BEST SANGA BELOWWe found plenty on offer, and some for sal..

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• `Urban forest' to cool sizzled suburbs

  

  The plan is for suburbs like Corio, Norlane and Whittington to become greener.THOUSANDS of new street trees would be planted across Greater Geelong under a council plan to grow the region’s “urban forest” and cool its most sizzled suburbs.Corio, Norlane and Whittington are hotspot suburbs that will be greened to improve livability and civic pride, while also mitigating summer heatwaves and providing environmental benefits.Councillors unanimously backed the plan to turn Geelong into a “cool green..

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• Stopping ISIS: Geelong Imam says to stop reacting and start strategising to win war against extremists | GeelongAdvertiser

  

  Geelong Imam Mohammad Ramzan said ISIS can be defeated if the world comes together to stop young people being recruited. Picture: Peter Ristevski.THE key to defeating ISIS is stopping it from brainwashing and recruiting teenagers, according to Geelong Imam Mohammad Ramzan.“Extremists did that in the past and they are doing it now. The world has changed into a global village, and if the world will not come together against their ideology of extremism, then we will continue to face this,” the reli..

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• Dodd gets grand final ban cut

  

  Baden Dodd in action. Picture: Peter RistevskiGEELONG Amateur veteran Baden Dodd will miss the first six matches of next season after his grand final ban was reduced at an AFL Victoria appeals hearing on Wednesday night.Dodd’s eight-match ban for striking Torquay midfielder Jarrod Mather was shaved by two, after the AFL Victoria country appeals board upheld the original guilty finding from the AFL Barwon tribunal.It still took almost three hours of evidence and 15 minutes of deliberations for th..

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• Don't judge Cats on 2016 alone, Scott says

  

  Harry Taylor: Geelong Cats will be contenders in 20162:11AFL: There's a buzz around the Geelong Cats offseason camp. Despite losing some big names, some useful additions have the Cats declaring they'll be there at the pointy end of the 2016 AFL season.GEELONG coach Chris Scott believes his club’s off-season recruiting spree has it well placed to again compete with the AFL’s best.But Scott, speaking from Ireland where he’s assisting with the All-Australian side ahead of Sunday’s International Rul..

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• $20m complex planned for coastal hamlet

  

  The apartment complex is being proposed for Portarlington.A $20 MILLION apartment complex is being planned for Portarlington, aimed at professional residents and modern holiday-makers.‘Bella’ will be a four-storey building on the Geelong Rd with 55 one and two-bedroom apartments, all with bay views, and shops and offices at ground level.Billed as the first complex of its type on the Bellarine Peninsula, the complex is designed to capitalise on the rebirth of the once-sleepy harbour town.It will ..

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• Oil prices edge higher

  

  Crude creeps up as weekly rise in US inventories comes in less than market had feared.Global oil prices have moved modestly higher as traders weighed a small gain in US inventories and a Federal Reserve report that supported expectations of a December interest rate rise.US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in December edged up US8c to $US40.75 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.Brent North Sea crude for January delivery, the global benchmark for crude oil, rose to $U..

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• Base metals hit multi-year lows

  

  Copper, lead, zinc, aluminium and nickel all trading around post-crisis lows.Base metals have hit multi-year lows as fears persisted over waning demand in top metals user China and investors awaited the minutes of a US Federal Reserve policy meeting, which ultimately reinforced rate rise expectations after the close of London trade.The US dollar was just off seven-month highs against a basket of currencies, weighing on metals by making dollar-priced commodities costlier for European and other no..

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