AN ARMY of selfless volunteers, helpful neighbours and have-a-go heroes are banding together, evacuating vulnerable residents and manning sandbag stations in Central Victoria as towns brace for devastating flooding to hit today.

MELBOURNE has plunged out of the nation’s million-dollar home club with an almost $80,000 hit to the city’s house price in the past three months.

A REVIEW will be conducted by Melbourne Water to determine whether a 3m floodwater wall around Flemington Racecourse exacerbated the severity of the flood that devastated Maribyrnong on Friday.

TEACHERS are scouring social media for lesson plans because of a lack of quality school resources that forces them to “fend for themselves”, resulting in poorer education outcomes.

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