HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Dec 25

AAP General News (Australia)
12-25-2006
HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 14:45, Dec 25

MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - Strong winds and heavy rain have caused Christmas Day havoc
in suburban Melbourne, dislodging roof tiles and causing flooding. (STORM)

TOLL

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - The NSW holiday road toll has risen to seven with the death of
a 17-year-old girl in a car accident near Newcastle. (TOLL NSW)

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - Three deaths in Victoria this morning have taken the national
road toll for the holiday period to 17. (TOLL NATIONAL 3rd Daylead)

MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - A woman in her 50s is dead after her vehicle ploughed into
a road barrier in outer Melbourne this morning. (TOLL VIC)

MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - A woman has died in a single-vehicle accident this morning
in outer Melbourne, raising the state's holiday road toll to four. (TOLL VIC 2nd Daylead)

MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - A person has died in a single-vehicle accident this morning
in Melbourne's southeast, raising the state's holiday road toll to four. (TOLL VIC Daylead)

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - Three young drivers - two of them on their P-plates and one unlicensed
- have figured in three of the six deaths so far on NSW roads this holiday. (TOLL NSW
PLATES)

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - The national holiday road toll has risen to 16 with two deaths
on Victorian roads early today. (TOLL NATIONAL 2nd Daylead)

MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - Victoria's holiday road toll has risen to three with two deaths
on the state's roads overnight. (TOLL VIC)

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - The national holiday road toll has risen to 14 with the death
of a 24-year-old man in Sydney's south-west. (TOLL NATIONAL Daylead with factbox)

XMAS

HOBART, Dec 25 AAP - Residents in two bushfire-affected states have awoken to a white
Christmas. (XMAS SNOW)

BRISBANE, Dec 25 AAP - Queensland has lived up to its reputation as the Sunshine State
with warm temperatures and clear skies across most regions on Christmas Day. (XMAS WEATHER
Qld to come)

XMAS WEATHER NSW, and XMAS WEATHER Nightlead to come

MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - The birth of another baby Jesus was almost celebrated in Melbourne
today, but his parents named him Yasin instead. (XMAS BABY to come.)

SYDNEY - Revellers celebrate Christmas on Bondi Beach. (XMAS BONDI, pix available, to come)

SYDNEY - Xmas day wrap including Bondi beach celebrations, weather, church services,
special lunches ...(XMAS NSW Nightlead)

SYDNEY - NSW farmers celebrate Christmas with present of rain. (XMAS WEATHER to come)

MELBOURNE, Dec 24 AAP - An elderly man's festive spirit was in tatters today when heartless
thieves stole his car laden with Christmas presents. (PRESENTS)

BRISBANE Qld - Wrap of Christmas festivities. (XMAS QLD to come)

MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - Woods Point residents have danced in the streets celebrating
Christmas rain which has ended the three-week fire threat to north-east Victorian town.

(BUSHFIRE VIC)

BUSHFIRES VIC Nightlead to come



PILOT

MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - It could take air safety investigators at least another two
days before they learn what went wrong in a fatal plane crash in southwest Victoria yesterday.

(NIGHTLEAD)

MELBOURNE, Dec 25 AAP - Air safety investigators will spend today sifting through the
wreckage of a light plane that crashed in south-west Victoria, killing a man. (PILOT Daylead)

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - A stabbing attack in Sydney's west has left a man in critical
condition. (DOMESTIC)



BRISBANE, Dec 25 AAP - A glass bottle ornament which has been sold in the lead up to
Christmas is being recalled because it contains seeds that could kill a child. (BOTTLE)

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - Private Jake Kovco's widow says she refuses to accept a military
inquiry report's ruling into her husband's death saying it destroys his reputation. (KOVCO)

BRISBANE, Dec 25 AAP - A 31-year-old woman has been sexually assaulted while walking
along a suburban street in Brisbane. (GRABBED)

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - The wheels of justice continue turning in Sydney today at Parramatta
Bail Court where a 20-year-old man will appear charged over a Christmas eve home invasion.

(INVASION)

BRISBANE, Dec 25 AAP - A man has been charged after allegedly attacking another man
with a carving knife at a home in far north Queensland. (KNIFE)

SYDNEY, Dec 25 AAP - Staff at a Sydney pizza store have been punched and threatened
with a knife by two men who stole cash from the shop last night. (PIZZA)

MELBOURNE, Dec 24 AAP - An 11-year-old Melbourne girl missing since yesterday has been
found safe and well. (GIRL Nightlead)

INTERNATIONAL

JAKARTA, Dec 25, AAP - Australian drug convicts Schapelle Corby and Renae Lawrence
have each had one month cut from their sentence by the Indonesian government. (INDON CORBY)

SPORT

CRICKET

MELBOURNE - Australia will use the looming retirements of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath
as further impetus for a 5-0 Ashes thrashing of England to crown the careers of the bowling
greats. (ASHES Nightlead) to come.

Plus sidebars, factbox.

MELBOURNE - The fourth Ashes Test could claim a world record before a ball is bowled
tomorrow, as the biggest crowd at a single day's Test match is expected to jam into the
MCG. (ASHES Crowd).



SAILING

SYDNEY - Preview of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, commencing tomorrow. (SAIL SYDHOB
Nightlead) to come.

Also sidebar on handicap honours, factbox.

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