VIC:Main stories in Melbourne newspapers

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2011
VIC:Main stories in Melbourne newspapers
MONITOR FRONTERS VIC 2 MELBOURNE

THE AGE

Page 1: Melbourne passenger train operator Metro is reportedly conducting a safety
assessment of the state government's plan to have armed protective services officers at
train stations.

Page 3: Former Defence Department head Paul Barrett says the Australian Defence Force
Academy should move to immediately expel the male cadets involved in the Skype sex scandal.

Page 5: Victorians' spending power for grocery items including lamb, butter, oranges
and beer has sunk in the last year.

World: Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has remained strategically silent
about claims that Rupert Murdoch tried to influence Labour MPs and peers to cool investigations
of phone hacking by the News of the World.

Finance: London was awash with speculation last night that BHP Billiton was in talks
with Royal Dutch Shell about orchestrating a $US46 billion ($A43.5 billion) takeover bid
for Woodside Petroleum.

Sport: St Kilda's dreadful start to the season suddenly borders on calamitous, with
coach Ross Lyon admitting for the first time that his players' hunger may have died, their
spirit broken.

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