Council Polls? No Contest

ALMOST half of Victoria's councillors are unlikely to run at this November's elections.

Milestone Beckons For Watt, The Roos' Quiet Achiever

NEXT round, Shannon Watt should play his 150th game for North Melbourne. He walked through the door as a first-round draft choice in 1997, a country kid aged only 16, and will turn 28 in the second-last week of November, with a long-term girlfriend from a very big city, New York.

Red Devil Leads Police At World Cup

WESTERN Suburbs rugby league player Brad Reh will captain Australia Police at the Police World Cup in November.

Signing Up To Reed

CARDIFF'S Lusty Industries has been named official luggage supplier for Chad Reed's Supercross spectacular at Parramatta Stadium in November.

Secret Plans Kept From Inner-west Mp, Voters

THE former education minister, Carmel Tebbutt, promised voters in the days before the last state election the Government had "no proposals to build the M4 East or any such thing as an inner-west motorway", even though a $10.4 billion network of tunnels under her electorate had been planned since November 2005.

Summit Aims To Harvest Regional Ideas

COUNTRY business leaders will meet in Bendigo in November to identify the key challenges restricting business in country Victoria and nominate solutions.