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► TOP HONOUR: Vicki Jellie has been named as a finalist in the Victorian Australian of the Year awards. Read more.

► LYNCH CELEBRATES: Heartbreak City, which is part owned by Warrnambool’s Peter Lynch, finished second in the Melbourne Cup. Read more.

► FEARS FOR THE FUTURE: The future of employees at Alcoa in Portland is in doubt. Read more.

► WEATHER: The south-west experienced above average rainfall in October. Read more. 

► GOOD SAMARITANS: Macarthur twins Kaitlin and Sophie Parfrey made the day of a man who lost his wallet. Read more.

►SEARCH FOR A NAME: Residents have been asked to help name Flagstaff Hill’s newest resident. Read more.

► FREE PARKING: No spare change for parking? No worries. Read more.

► PETS OF THE WEEK: These pets are looking for a home. Read more. 

► ANALYSIS: Take a look at the break down of the Warrnambool City Council election results. Read more.

► PICTURE PERFECT: Warrnambool’s Perry Cho took this stunning photograph. Read more.

Here’s your headlines from around regional Australia and beyond. Scroll down and refresh for weather, road reports and more.

Need a national news snapshot first thing – well, we have you covered. 

► CANOWINDRA: The father of murdered school teacher Stephanie Scott has died in a tragic accident at a farm near Canowindra in the central west of NSW. Full story.

► ILLAWARRA: A ‘siege’ that shut down a Berkeley street for more than six hours on Monday was the work of a teenager with a fake gun and a black texta, a court has heard. Full story.

 ► BLACKHEATH: Blackheath has become the world’s first town where all the shopfront businesses have agreed to phase out plastic straws. Full story.

► BEGA: Motorists are being advised the Snowy Mountains Hwy on Brown Mountain will be closed from Monday,  November 14, to Friday, November 25, for essential maintenance work. More details.

►  NOWRA: He was 80 pounds of devotion, full of character, fiercely loyal and simply a loveable black Labrador.

And if you lived around Jervis and Berry streets, especially in the early 1970s there was a pretty fair chance you knew of Spoofy. Full story.

► BALLARAT: Ongoing testing at the Craigieburn Victorian Emergency Management Training Centre have revealed elevated levels of toxic perfluoro chemical PFOS. Full story.

► NEWCASTLE: Newcastle man and former ADFA cadet Harlan Agresti, who was last year found guilty of raping a fellow cadet in her quarters, has had his conviction set aside on appeal. Full story.

► GOULBURN: THE recent spate of inmates being caught with mobile phones in Goulburn Correctional Centre may be coming to an end, with a two-year trial of phone-jamming equipment to start at the prison soon. Full story.

National news 

► MELBOURNE: Lloyd Williams won his fifth Melbourne Cup - a record - when his well backed Almandin wore down Irish raider Heartbreak City in a war of attrition down the Flemington straight to take the 156th Melbourne Cup for jockey Kerrin McEvoy and trainer Robert Hickmott. Full story.

► CANBERRA: Kevin Rudd has ripped into Malcolm Turnbull over the government's proposed asylum seeker laws, saying they must be opposed, and arguing the Prime Minister is pandering to a "Hansonite insurgency" and that he has misrepresented the 2013 deal struck with Papua New Guinea. Full story.

► SYDNEY: A young girl and her mother have been taken to hospital with serious injuries after they were hit by a vehicle while out trick-or-treating for Halloween in Sydney's west. Full story.

► SYDNEY: A major new study is being launched into the effect of controversial lockout and last drinks laws in Kings Cross and the Sydney CBD, including whether they have pushed violence to neighbouring areas. Full story.

► BEIJING: Justice Minister Michael Keenan has directly raised with China's top police official the federal government's concerns regarding the four Australians detained in connection with Crown Resorts' activities on the mainland. Full story.

► BANGKOK: An Australian man wanted in Queensland on kidnapping and torture charges has been photographed socialising in Bangkok bars. Full story.

► JOHANNESBURG: James Starkey invited his killer in. So says the general manager of the luxury apartment block in Johannesburg where Mr Starkey, an Australian banking consultant, was found dead in his room last month. Full story.

1986 - The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" was purchased for $30,800. 

2001 - The computer-animated movie "Monsters, Inc." opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time. 

IT HAS been a long time between drinks for Western Bulldogs supporters, just ask retired Wagga footballer Graham ‘Curly’ Ion.

The Bulldogs will be out to break the AFL’s longest premiership drought on Saturday when they attempt to win their first flag since 1954 against Sydney.

Few people can appreciate just how long the wait has been better than Ion, who played in the Bulldogs’ last grand final back in 1961.

A Footscray man through and through, Ion watched on from the grandstand as a 13-year-old when the Bulldogs won the 1954 grand final. Read more.