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Josh Fagan is a general news reporter with experience covering major breaking events, crime and courts.

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Melbourne Cup arrives at The Prince of Wales Hotel in St Kilda. Owners Nick and Saskia Williams (front) with the Melbourne Cup. Picture: Josie Hayden

Winners, punters revel in Cup Day celebrations

Owners of Melbourne Cup winning horse Twilight Payment have gathered to toast a win “beyond expectations” as revellers made a COVID-safe return to Melbourne’s favourite hot spots for the race that stops the nation.

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$17 slabs in Liquorland pricing glitch

Beer lovers couldn’t believe their luck when a pricing glitch saw slabs selling for $17.50 on the Liquorland website. Now the company has responded to the buying frenzy on its discount booze.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 28: People are seen dining outside St. Ali Cafe in South Melbourne on October 28, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Lockdown restrictions in Melbourne lifted as of midnight with people able to leave their home for any reason. Cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars can reopen subject to patron limits while beauty services, tattoo parlours and any other service where you can wear a mask will be able to resume. Up to 10 people from any number of households will be able to gather outdoors, however, Victorians are still required to wear a face mask in public. Metropolitan Melbourne has been subject to Stage 4 restrictions since 2 August 2020 with residents under stay at home orders following a second wave of COVID-19 cases in the community. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Melburnians seize new freedoms; mystery cases dive

Shopping centres and eateries are abuzz as Melburnians rush to embrace their first day of freedom after the crippling lockdown ended. It comes as the state’s two new coronavirus cases have been linked to the northern suburbs cluster and mystery cases in Melbourne continue to drop.

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Arbory Afloat are forging ahead with plans to reopen, as soon as they are able. Kristen Thompson [front] with  Isabella de Winter, Darcy del Rio and Chelsea Kras.  Picture: Alex Coppel.

Homes the ‘most dangerous’ place for virus spread

Visiting family and friends at their homes will be allowed from Wednesday, but there are plenty of rules to follow if you plan to gather in the “most dangerous place” for the virus. Meanwhile, trick or treating rules for Melburnians have been revealed.

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More cases expected from northern suburbs cluster

More than 500 residents in Melbourne’s northern suburbs have been told to isolate after a child who went to school tested positive, with health authorities warning more cases are likely to emerge from the cluster, which grew by five cases today.

Coronavirus
Franz Madlener (left) with wife and owner Brook Pollock at Acrobar on Sunday, June 21, 2020, in Heatherton, Victoria, Australia. Picture: Hamish Blair

Cafe slammed after Andrews dig, school closes as student infected

A Melbourne cafe owner says a “lighthearted” sign charging Daniel Andrews supporters extra for coffees has seen him become a victim of abuse and threats. It comes as a student who tested positive for COVID-19 went to school, in Melbourne’s north, while he was meant to be self-isolating, resulting in the school’s closure.

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