FED:HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 262011

AAP General News (Australia)
04-26-2011
FED:HighLights of the AAP National Wire at 19:30, April 262011

ADELAIDE - South Australian Premier Mike Rann says he will make a major statement to
state parliament next week after the arrest of an MP over child pornography offences.

(MP)



CANBERRA - Discount retailer Aldi has become the first supermarket chain in Australia
to banish artificial colourings from its entire range of food products. (Aldi)



BRISBANE - Queenslanders are mourning the passing of one of the state's leading indigenous
artists, Tapich Gloria Fletcher. (Fletcher)



ADELAIDE - Shops in Adelaide's Rundle Mall retail precinct are expected to have rung
up sales of $30 million on their first chance to trade on the Anzac Day public holiday.

(Anzac Shopping)



PERTH - A 69-year-old woman bitten by a snake near the West Australian wheatbelt town
of Kellerberrin has been flown to hospital in Perth. (Snake)



MELBOURNE - Victorian police are searching for a good Samaritan who helped rescue a
23-year-old woman who'd been sexually assaulted on her way home from a nightclub in the
early hours of Monday. (Assault)



MELBOURNE - Paramedics have brought a 16-year-old boy back to life after he crashed
his motorbike into a pole in country Victoria. (Pole)



HOBART - Tasmanian police are "disappointed" more than 60 motorists were charged with
drink-driving offences over the long weekend. (Driving)



SYDNEY - A man wielding a machete has smashed his way into a pub on NSW's far north
coast, stealing cash and tying a couple to a railing. (Hotel)



SYDNEY - The wreckage of a helicopter that crashed into water off the NSW far south
coast, killing a female passenger, has been salvaged. (Helicopter)



MELBOURNE - A masked bandit armed with a screwdriver and a knife robbed two 24-hour
stores in 10 minutes in the early hours of Tuesday morning. (Armed)



SYDNEY - Three prisoners have escaped from a correctional centre in far northwestern
NSW. (Prison)



ADELAIDE - A woman's body has been found in a car at Strathalbyn, south of Adelaide,
with police treating the death as a major crime. (Body Update)



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