The main stories on 2200 2GB News

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2010
The main stories on 2200 2GB News

SYDNEY, Dec 20 AAP - Main stories in today's 2200 2GB News:



- The final cost of having a NBN connection is not clearer, despite the release of
the business plan, with retailers likely to mark up projected draft costs.

- Ron Medich is out of jail on bail, but will be closely monitored by police before
his next court appearance on murder changes.

- There's been joy in the Snowy Mountains with unseasonal snowfalls, but Christmas
Day is looking wet across NSW.

- There's good news for 3000 stranded Qantas international passengers, with European
weather-hit flights about to resume.

- Another vessel carrying 60 people has been stopped in Australian waters.

- Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid is yet to confirm reports he'll quit NSW politics.

- Police admit they're looking into a possible link between a road death and the stabbing
of a man at Mirrabooka in the Lake Macquarie area.

- A central coast woman, caught seven times over the legal limit, has sparked a warning
to Christmas holiday motorists.

- Two Australian soldiers have been wounded, one seriously, in Afghanistan.

- North Korea hasn't retaliated against the South after a live-fire exercise.

- 12 men have been arrested in raids across Britain on suspicion of plotting a large
scale terrorist attack.

- Julia Gillard has laughed off speculation over a ring on her finger.

- Briefly: An Australian human rights lawyer has hit back at US vice-president JOE
BIDEN's comments that WikiLeaks' founder JULIAN ASSANGE is more of a high-tech terrorist
than a whistleblower; Simply Red has played its last gig.

- SPORT: Ricky Ponting will wait until Wednesday to decide if his fractured finger
will allow him to play in the 4th Ashes test; NSW-Qld Sheffield Shield; South Sydney NRL
club will make a decision this week on Greg Inglis; St Kilda AFL photo controversy; Cadel
Evans to miss the Tour Down Under.



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