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Jen KellyIn Black and White columnist

Jen Kelly has been the Herald Sun’s In Black and White columnist since 2015, sharing our readers’ quirky and amusing stories from the past and present. She also writes and hosts a weekly history podcast called In Black and White on Australia’s forgotten characters, featuring interviews with a range of historians, authors and experts. Jen has previously covered general news, features, health, city affairs, state politics, travel, parenting and books over more than 25 years at the Herald Sun.

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Street fighter and criminal Cecilia Curtain, who wore a patch over one sightless eye and was known as the One-Eyed Tiger of Little Bourke St.

How the ‘One-Eyed Tiger’ of Little Bourke St earned her nickname

Wearing a patch over one eye, Victorian street fighter Cecilia Curtain made her money robbing men on Melbourne’s seedy city streets.

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100 Babies 10 years on. 10 year olds - Andy Zhu, Koby Robertson, Emaira Tomar, Ben Steinhauser, Saira Bakshi, Ruansh Chowdhury, Bianca Sommers hold photos of them as babies. Picture: David Caird Picture: David Caird

Meet our brightest and cheekiest young Victorians

Sunday Herald Sun readers first met these children when they were born. Now they are ambitious 10-year-olds with the world at their feet. We catch up with them to find out about their hopes and dreams.

The cost of wholesale cocoa beans soared to the highest level in more than a decade, and manufacturers are betting prices of the key chocolate ingredient will stay elevated through 2024. Wilbur Arkeveld (6) enjoys a block of chocolate at Chocilo in Ivanhoe. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Chocolate lovers told to ‘stockpile now’ before price hike

Aussies are being warned the sweet treats are about to get much more expensive, with cocoa prices surging to their highest level in 44 years.

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French Empress Josephine’s amazing Aussie menagerie

When Napoleon’s wife declared she wanted wombats, kangaroos and emus roaming her gardens, nothing could get in her way.

In Black and White

Who really killed Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor?

A widely held belief that feared gangsters Squizzy Taylor and rival Snowy Cutmore killed each other in a fierce Carlton shootout could be a farce, as evidence of a third man comes to light.

Art for southeast suburbs top 30

Top 50 suburbs in the southeast ranked

Southeast Melbourne’s top 50 most liveable places have been revealed, with places like Frankston coming in higher than Brighton. Do you agree? Have your say on the ratings.

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Northern Melbourne’s top 50 suburbs ranked

Do Ivanhoe’s Christmas lights help the suburb outshine its neighbours? Or is the proximity of the city to Parkville or Collingwood what makes them better suburbs?

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In Black and White

Gunman Karl Kast, who on 1/12/1955 went on a Wickham Terrace shooting spree, killing two doctors, seriously wounding another and attempting to kill another before shooting himself and blowing himself apart with a bomb.

Why a disgruntled patient shot dead his doctors in killing spree

Siegfried Karl Kast was furious when doctors refused to support his back injury claim, so he took matters into his own hands.

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Western Melbourne’s top 9 suburbs ranked

Western Melbourne’s top 9 most liveable places have been revealed, with some dark horses making the list. Have your say on the ratings.

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Full listFuture Victoria

Fatima Musai and her nine year old son Lirian Dauti. Dandenong is the most liveable suburb in Melbourne further than 20km from the CBD. Picture: Josie Hayden

Our city’s most liveable suburbs revealed

The best Melbourne suburbs for access to education, transport and shopping have been named, with some surprising results. See how your area ranks.

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