Qld: Highlights of Ten News at 1700

AAP General News (Australia)
04-11-2006
Qld: Highlights of Ten News at 1700

BRISBANE, April 11 AAP - Main stories on Ten News at 1700 AEST:

- After a horror weekend on the roads, police will flood the streets to curb outrageous
driving as part of their Easter campaign.

- Serial killer Francis Faye will probably die in jail after he was given a life sentence
for the brutal slaying of two prostitutes.

- The planned route of a road to carry heavy trucks to and from a quarry on Brisbane's
western outskirts has enraged local residents. They say hundreds of trucks servicing the
proposed Kholo Creek Quarry will ruin their quiet neighbourhoods.

- Despite the evidence of a former Australian Wheat Board boss, Alexander Downer has
denied any knowledge wheat board money ended up in the pockets of the ruthless dictator,
Saddam Hussein.

- Detainees in Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre have been freed, but only briefly.

It's been closed for asbestos contamination but some of the detainees are refusing to
go.

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