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Ian RoyallReporter and Opinion Editor

Ian Royall is a general news reporter and opinion editor for the Herald Sun, with more than three decades’ experience in journalism, home and abroad. Covers MotoGP too.

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Ugly Rockery Garden. Sisters Ella 10 and Sophie 7 Bryant in front of the rock garden on the traffic island on the corner of Linlithgow Avenue and Alexandra Avenue near Kings Domain in Melbourne. Picture: Eugene Hyland

Is this Melbourne’s ugliest landmark?

HAVE you been wondering what that weird and ugly garden rockery on the traffic island near the Tan is? It’s heritage listed and 114 years old … seriously.

VIC News

Melbourne has been voted the World's most liveable city AGAIN. The Yarra River with Princess Bridge and Melbourne's city skyline. Picture: Jason Sammon Tuesday 18th August 2015

Booming Melbourne to surpass Sydney

MELBOURNE is on course to overtake Sydney as Australia’s biggest city as new figures show the Victorian capital, added another 95,000 citizens in just one year.

VIC News

Leighton Properties' Wesley Complex redevelopment, Lonsdale St, Melbourne

Office could tower over historic church

PLANS have been unveiled for a 39-storey office block that would tower over the landmark 157-year-old Wesley Church in Lonsdale St, Melbourne.

Opinion

Wolter Kuiper takes the Suzuki DR650 motorbike through city traffic.

Filtering to give a smoother ride

NEW laws that allow motorcycle riders to filter through traffic might annoy some drivers but they can make the ride easier for all of us, says IAN ROYALL.

Motorsport

Repsol Honda Team rider Marc Marquez of Spain (bottom) leads Ducati Team rider Andrea Iannone of Italy (C) and Team Suzuki Ecstar rider Aleix Espargaro of Spain (top) during the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi, Tochigi prefecture on October 11, 2015. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI

Marquez style costs him title

TWO-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has cost himself another title through his daredevil racing style, according to Aussie great Mick Doohan.

Motorsport

Moto GP riders Valentino Rossi of Italy, center left, and Dani Pedrosa of Spain chat following their duel for the second position during the Aragon Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Aragon Motorland racetrack in Alcaniz, Spain, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015. Pedrosa finished second and Rossi third. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Rossi’s success a boost for sales

THE “Valentino Rossi factor” is helping lift ticket sales for this month’s 2015 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island.

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