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Have you ever been looking for an app that delivers news right away to your mobile device in a short and effective way so that you get the latest news without wasting a lot of time searching for them ? Melbourne & Victoria News is your source of Melbourne and state of Victoria local news, it collects news from different news agencies and twitter accounts and delivers it directly to your mobile. The application delivers news headlines only and you can always click to read the whole news.
News are classified into categories so that it is easy for you to reach your favourite news directly, categories of news the app collects are :

- General
- Sports
- Business
- Life & Entertainment
- Alerts & Announcements
- Weather News

Never miss a news any more.

Currently the application aggregates news from below sources :

- The Age
- ABC Melbourne News
- ABC Victoria News
- 9News Melbourne
- 7News Melbourne
- Ten News Melbourne

- ABC Sports
- AFL Melbourne
- AFL Saint Kilda
- AFL Geelong

- ABC Business
- Parliament of Victoria
- ABC Melbourne Events
- Thats Melbourne
- Weather zone
- ABC Melbourne Weather
- What’s On Melbourne today
- Events Victoria
- Pieces of Victoria
- City of Melbourne
- Queen Victoria Market
- Victoria Police News
- VLine
- CFA Fire warnings
- Metropolitan Fire and Emergency service

The application pulls news every half an hour, you can always force refresh the news by pressing on "sync now"
You can enable/disable notifications for news, you can even set your mobile to vibrate or plays a ring tone when news arrive.
The app allows you to share the news on Facebook, twitter, send it as email and much more.
The app allows you to mark some news with a star so that you can easily find them later
Using settings you can control how often news are refreshed, and for how often old news should get removed.
In addition to that, the app allows you to add your own source of news to the existing ones