Driven to distraction

THERE are four cars parked outside the Soni household each night €” one for every adult in the Point Cook North home.

Mildurans revolt after 17-year wait for train

BROKEN political promises hurt, but nowhere are they felt quite as they are in Mildura, where Labor promised a decade ago to restore passenger rail services cut by the Kennett government in 1993.

ROAD RAGE

Taxi drivers in Soweto protest against a new bus service they fear will hurt their business. The drivers went on strike and blocked roads after Johannesburg's Bus Rapid Transit introduced feeder buses to ferry commuters from several Soweto suburbs to train stations along main routes. The service is being introduced in preparation for the World Cup, which begins in June.

City queries cost of free tourist bus

MELBOURNE'S free tourist shuttle bus is at risk as city authorities looks at ways to recoup €” or ditch €” some of its $1.4 million-a-year operating costs.

Horses hurt as storm sweeps in

NEWMARKET Handicap fourth-placegetter King Pulse was last night fighting for his life after he took fright during the freak storm to hit Flemington and ran into a fence, receiving multiple injuries.