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Good morning, we're back with Melbourne Express bringing you regular updates for the commute, breaking news, weather and what's on around town until 9am. Please share any comments or tips here using the comments button, or email Timna at timna.jacks@theage.com.au or tweet @theage - cheers.
A cloudy day today and isolated showers. Expected to reach a top of 18 degrees.
Our transport reporter Adam Carey reports direct from .... Paris. Not sure this would happen to a driver parking their car in a bike lane in Melbourne.
This is what happens when you park your car in a bike lane in Paris pic.twitter.com/zUCbwmDpc0 — Adam Carey (@adamlcarey) October 1, 2014
Making headlines this morning and James Hird faces the axe today; state MP found to have doled out more than $100,000 from a controversial slush fund to a string of community and sporting groups linked to Labor factional dogfights and branch-stacking and Turkey says it may send troops into Syria to fight Islamic State as Islamists surround a town on its southern border.
Ten-minute delays both ways on the Sandringham line now.
