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If the answer is “no”, you totally should. This Melbourne Express blogger loves listening to it on the way home from work every Thursday.

Anyone can sing, but it’s much more fun to sing with friends. More than 400 people will form a choir at Melbourne Town Hall on December 2 as With One Voice marks its 10-year milestone.

And you can join them. We’re giving away more double passes today to the lucky readers who can tell us the name of the greatest song of all time (ie, it’s subjective but we like to hear your opinions).

Send your answers with your name, email and mobile number to aimee.amiga@fairfaxmedia.com.au. We’ll print the winners’ names before 9am.

Heads up for anyone driving home from the city near the MCG this afternoon:

Dozens of people have paid tribute to the 9-month-old girl found washed up on a Gold Coast beach.

A candle-lit vigil was held last night and flowers were cast into the ocean as mourners paid tribute to the baby, 3AW reports.

The child’s father has been charged with her murder and her mother, originally from Geelong, is in a mental health facility, the report adds.

“We’re sorry we didn’t pick up on it,” said a woman who attended. “We’re sorry we didn’t help you.”

You've been waiting so patiently for it, so now, without further ado, I present you with today's Target Word.

The person to submit the longest list of words by 8:45am will get a special mention in today's blog.

Are you an avid online shopper? If so, today’s your day. And what perfect timing, as you start your Christmas shopping.

But shoppers are being warned to do their homework to ensure they're getting a real deal.

3AW is reporting that damage from the fire at a bus depot in Mt Waverley could exceed $2 million.

No one was injured in the blaze.

The wild weather kept the State Emergency Service busy with 44 callouts between 7pm Thursday and 7am Friday. Twenty of those calls were for fallen tress.

After copping the brunt of last night's strong winds, Bayside suburbs will continue to be hit with gusts of between 80 and 90 km/h across Friday morning. The conditions should calm by late afternoon.

The maximum wind speed recorded overnight was a whopping 127km/h in Wilson's Promontory just after 5am.

Winds could reach 120 km/h in some coastal areas today.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for damaging winds in the East Gippsland area and the southeast parts of Victoria, averaging 50 to 60 km/h with peak gusts of 90 to 100 km/h.

For coastal areas east of Orbost, damaging winds averaging 70 to 80 km/h with gusts to 120 km/h are possible this morning.

A fire erupted in Mt Waverley overnight when a bus that a mechanic was working on caught fire.

The flames spread to two additional buses and sent smoke over the Monash Freeway.

Melbourne Fire Brigade had the blaze under control within less than an hour.