Main stories in tonight's 1800 Seven News

AAP General News (Australia)
12-09-2008
Main stories in tonight's 1800 Seven News

SYDNEY, Dec 9 AAP - Highlights of tonight's Seven News at 1800.

- Police are hunting a gun-toting cross-dresser who tied up and assaulted staff before
robbing a bank at North Strathfield, in Sydney's inner west.

- A Sydney man has been remanded in custody, but his wife has been granted bail over
their alleged involvement in blowing up an automatic teller machine (ATM) at a Brisbane
bank last weekend.

- A man has been arrested over the shooting death of Josef Cruickshank, Seven News reports.

- A takeaway food outlet that accidentally served a band-aid in a pizza is one of 317
businesses on the NSW government's latest Name and Shame list for food safety infringements.

- The father of a Sydney primary school student denies he tried to pay a teacher $2,500
to alter his son's marks and compares himself to film character Forrest Gump's mother,
NSW's corruption watchdog has heard.

- Senior students at two elite Sydney schools have been accused of setting up internet
sites which feature anti-Semitic abuse.

- A fighter jet returning to a Marine base after a training exercise has crashed in
flames in a San Diego neighbourhood, killing three people and destroying two homes.

- Army Black Hawk helicopters took the skies over Sydney's CBD today to ensure to ensure
pilots were well trained in operating over built up areas.

- Creation will be the theme of this year's New Year's Eve party on Sydney Harbour,
which is expected to attract 1.5 million people.

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