WEATHER
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, overnight lows are starting to rise.
Climbing from six degrees, we will have a partly cloudy day and a top of 11 degrees.
A light shower or two this morning. Light winds.
TODAY'S TOP STORY
Ballarat is the worst Victorian region for cardiovascular disease.
Nearly one third of residents (32.3 per cent) have CVD, which causes heart attacks and strokes.
POLICE
A man arrested hiding in a tunnel under Charing Cross last night was earlier remanded in custody in the Bendigo Magistrates Court on serious assault charges.
Nathaniel Cotter, 18, appeared in court on Wednesday afternoon facing charges of intentionally causing injury, recklessly causing injury and unlawful assault.
He was denied bail but later escaped police custody about 5pm.
FIRE
Fire crews attended a false alarm at Woolworths in Sebastopol.
Crews attended the supermarket at the intersection of Hertford and Albert streets at 7.10pm on Wednesday.
Aside from the one incident, firefighters participated in development training with some expected to be promoted to Leading Firefighters.
AMBULANCE
Paramedics had no incidents to report from overnight.
V/LINE
No reported delays or changes to the
The Ballarat train line experiences one of the highest rates of safety incidents in Victoria.
Research by Transport Safety Victoria reveals there have been 34 hits or near hits between V/Line trains and either motor vehicles or pedestrians on the Ballarat line in the past five years.
ON THE AGENDA
Today we catch up with the NBL's Melbourne United, who are training in Ballarat as part of a visit this week.