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Firefighters have contained a bushfire which prompted evacuations and left campers stranded in remote parts of the Otways.

About 100 campers are stranded on the Cape Otway coastline, off the Great Ocean Road, after being told it was too late to flee from a bushfire.

Campers and residents have told to shelter immediately at Cape Otway, off the Great Ocean Road, days after an enormous blaze in the Grampians was contained.

A 51-year-old man has been charged with arson after flames engulfed part of a grandstand, as police investigate whether other fires are linked to the case.

Readers respond to Christopher Pyne’s view on the Coalition’s nuclear policy, and to rising private school fees.

Barwon Health has faced court after a woman took her own life while undergoing treatment at the Swanston Centre in Geelong, an acute psychiatric unit.

CCTV shows the last time Lorrin Whitehead was seen on February 8, 2013 in Bannockburn, Victoria, at the Woolworths supermarket complex at 4.45pm.

A 51-year-old man has been arrested after flames engulfed part of a grandstand, as police investigate whether another three fires are linked to the incident.

The fire tore through a stand at the racecourse, sending plumes of smoke across the inner east.

Introduced myna birds and the native miner are ruling our backyards through sheer aggression and pack mentality. But there is a solution.

Police will scour bushland outside Geelong on Tuesday after gathering intelligence that Lorrin Whitehead’s remains may be located there.