Melbourne Express, Wednesday, March 28, 2018

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Western Bulldogs midfielder Emma Kearney has capped a stellar season, winning the AFLW best and fairest. Kearney won comfortably with 14 votes. Read more here.

A vendor from Lower Hutt City in New Zealand has taken to local online marketplace TradeMe to sell a small scrap of yellow sandpaper he's calling "Australian Sports Tape". The tape, the ad claims, is "Perfect for cheating in every form of the game" and will "get the ball swinging in everything from backyard cricket to Test matches". The most recent top bid was $NZ22 ($A16).

Joe Hinchliffe reports: A 19-year-old Flemington man is dead after a losing control of his car while driving in Moonee Ponds yesterday afternoon.

Police believe his Nissan sedan was heading west on Dean Street when it drifted onto the wrong side of the road just before 5.30pm.

His car crashed into a Holden SUV travelling east injuring its driver, a 25-year-old Pascoe Vale woman, who was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

In the headlines this morning:

• A $250 million plan to redevelop the Queen Victoria Market is in disarray, after the state's heritage authority rejected a key element of the proposal.
• A teacher who admitted to grooming a 15-year-old girl for sex almost four decades ago has bee allowed to continue working in schools.
• And Australia is bracing for a diplomatic counterpunch from Russia after it told Moscow two of its spies would have to leave the country.

Here's what it looks like in print today:

As you'd expect, there's a lot of reaction about to the Cricket Australia announcement.

Former Test captain Michael Clarke hasn't held back:

Watch Cricket Australia's James Sutherland front the media:

Joe Hinchliffe reports: Fire in a Sydney Road jewellery shop has spread into an adjoining store and threatened the Coburg market site overnight.

Emergency services were called to the scene about 1.45am and the blaze took 23 firefighters 40 minutes to bring under control.

No one was at the store. Police are yet to determine a cause. MFB Fire Investigators will determine the extent of structural damage this morning.

A rogue group of illegal deer hunters has become the focus of a police investigation into a hit-run death in Jamieson, north-east of Melbourne.

Bryce Airs was struck and killed by a vehicle as he walked home from the pub along Mansfield-Woods Point Road about midnight last November.

Mr Airs said before he died that he thought he'd been struck by lightning. Police say a large stag was known to be grazing in a nearby reserve and they believe Mr Airs mistook a flash of spotlights for lightning.