Melbourne Express, Tuesday, August 14, 2018

It's two days in a row for Sue Munday, who is first again with the answer to today's Target word.

Have you got it yet? The letters are: E R N R O M U A T. Send your answers via email or Twitter. We'll print the solution tomorrow.

• There's been a crash on the Princes Freeway at Berwick. Emergency services are on the scene, near the Clyde Road overpass. Traffic has been slowed to 40km/h.
• Another smash citybound on the Monash in Chadstone at Atkinson Street, near Warrigal Road.
• A three-car crash on Glenferrie Road near Barkers Road in Hawthorn.
• And reports of a rolled car at the intersection of Mt Dandenong Road and Dublin Road in Ringwood East.

In case you missed it earlier, a teen has been attacked in a terrifying sexual assault in the CBD.

The woman ran screaming from Flinders Lane about 2am on June 9 after a man dragged her behind high metal gates in an alleyway, locked the gates, then sexually asaulted her.

They're laying on the pastries this morning to celebrate the last day of bus replacements at Pakenham Station.

Get your brains into gear. Today's Target word letters are: E R N R O M U A T.

Send your answers via email or Twitter. We'll publish the names of the first brainiacs to get the correct answer.

Yesterday's solution was NAMEPLATE.

An American woman has uncovered an alarming find inside a decorative glass globe she bought from an op shop: human ashes.

The globe, which cost $US2 and had a printed prayer inside the glass dome, played the song "Amazing Grace" when a dial was turned. It also displayed a photo of a smiling woman.

Jeni's daughter posted the photo on Facebook.  The citizen sleuths got on the case and not only identified the woman, but returned her ashes to her family. Read more here.

A British repairman who couldn’t draw has found a new talent for painting after a stroke. ‘‘I remember waking up in hospital with this sudden urge to draw,’’ said Wayne Sheppard, whose paintings now sell for hundreds of pounds each. Experts say his stroke affected the parts of his brain associated with creativity.

A confronting new exhibition featuring "plasticised" human bodies shows us the damage our lifestyles can do to us.

The exhibit at Melbourne Showgrounds features more than 150 dissected specimens taken from volunteers who have donated their bodies, including livers, kidneys and hearts. Most spectacular are several carefully skinned, preserved and posed humans.

See a heavy smoker's lungs or see a very literal version of the old adage, you are what you eat, courtesy of two bodies that have been sliced vertically down the middle. BODY WORLDS Vital runs until November 18.

• There are reports of a rolled car on Mt Dandenong Road in Ringwood East. Traffic lights are out at the Dublin Road intersection. VicRoads warns to approach with care and expect delays.
• There's also an accident on Glenferrie Road, at Barkers Road in Hawthorn
• Another southbound on Denmark Street in Kew
• And on northbound lanes are still closed on Chapel Street in St Kilda East between Argyle Street and Alma Road due to a burst water main. Plan to avoid the area through the morning peak. Try Hotham Street or St Kilda Road instead.

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