VIC: Main stories in todays Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-1998
VIC: Main stories in todays Melbourne newspapers

MELBOURNE, Dec 9 AAP - Main stories in todays Melbourne newspapers:

HERALD SUN:

PAGE 1: Australian cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne have been fined five-figure sums
for their "improper association" with an Indian bookmaker in 1994.

PAGE 2: State schools are hitting parents with a new batch of voluntary fees to cover
escalating costs.

PAGE 3: A strangled grandmother lay dead in a bath full of water for up to four days before
being found.

PAGE 5: Combat pilots are leaving the air force at an alarming rate.

WORLD: Government approval is expected today for research into human cloning techniques
which would create spare body parts for organ transplants.

FINANCE: National Mutual Holdings insignia will be replaced in favour of the AXA logo as
the French parent company tightens its grip on the local insurer.

SPORT: Englands most productive batsman in Australia, Graham Thorpe, troubled by back
injury, has flown home for treatment. Golfer Tiger Woods says he is looking forward to playing
against Greg Norman in the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne.

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