Matthews, 31, of Adams Street, has been in custody since being arrested on May 10, but made no application for release until yesterday.

The court was told in tendered police facts that a man wearing a bandana went into the Globe Hotel bottle shop about 7.10pm on August 10, 2013.

RUTHERGLEN winemakers have bounced back strongly from the devastating frost that hit the region almost two years ago.

Winemakers of Rutherglen president Wendy Killeen said on Monday that the 2015 vintage had gone extremely well.

Her comments follow the Winemakers’ Federation of Australia revelation this week that the nation’s 2015 vintage crush was 1.67 million tonnes.

DYNAMIC winger Sam Allen has helped the Steamers close in on the minor premiership with an outstanding display at Murrayfield on Saturday.

The blue and golds dominated the top of the table clash with Leeton, converting a 29-13 halftime lead into a 49-22 victory.

The win gives the Steamers a handy buffer at the top of the table with three rounds to finals and the week off for the minor premier.

Ollie Hollands has added the Victorian cross country title to his sport resume with a blistering performance that has officials still checking their record books.

The St Monica’s Year 6 student blitzed the best in the state for his age last week running the 3km course at Bundoora in 9 minutes 20 seconds.

Hollands took the lead on the first climb in the run and then maintained his 50-metre advantage for the final two kilometres.

Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered. 

► OAKS FLAT, NSW: AN OAKS Flats cyclist has claimed new laws, which would force bike riders over a certain age to carry photo identification, would only create aggression among the cycling community. Illawarra Bicycle User Group chairman Werner Steyer said he supported the idea that cyclists carry ID but claimed it shouldn’t be mandatory. “It just adds aggression to the situation,” he said. “Every time somebody makes a law, you get people thinking it’s an invasion of privacy.''

► QUEENSLAND: MILLIONS of dollars’ worth of mining royalties could be lost after the Queensland government introduced changes to laws giving landholders the right to object to mining developments. Queensland Resources Council boss Michael Roche said the changes could pave the way for “vexatious” litigants to delay projects, tie up scarce Land Court resources and cost the state millions of dollars in lost royalties.

► BENDIGO, VIC: BENDIGO City FC’s committee has resigned from the fledgling National Premier League Victoria club. President Ben Pengelly and committee members Travis St Clair, Peter Anderson, Arj Perera and Melanie Shanahan stepped down at the weekend. A group of parents and members strongly disagreed with the committee’s decision to re-structure the club’s finances, including making technical director Fab Soncin’s full-time role redundant.

► HUNTER, NSW:  THE wine making industry in the Hunter is continuing to struggle through a ‘‘bleak’’ period, with a new report revealing only three per cent of grape growers are making a profit. But those in the industry say grape growing in the region is still viable and insist figures are influenced by years of oversupply and a hangover from vintages affected by bad weather.

► KENTISH, TAS: A KENTISH mountain bike track in the Badgers Range will be the "key third plank" to make Tasmania an international mountain bike destination, according to research conducted by the Kentish Council. A draft master plan of the Kentish mountain bike track has been released for public comment, with an official master plan expected by the end of August and funding applications to follow.

► BALLARAT, VIC: FROM unimaginable tragedies, miracles can happen. That’s the message Jon and Michelle Seccull want to share with the world. On October 4, 2011, their son Ethan, then aged three, died after being clipped by a Ballarat-bound passenger train near his family’s home in Wallace. In the midst of their grief, at the bedside of their critically injured son, the parents made the courageous decision to donate Ethan’s organs. “We never wanted another family to go through what we were going through,” Mr Secull said. “We couldn't get our miracle but through Ethan we could give others theirs.” Read more.

► PORT CAMPBELL, VIC: A MISSING link in the remarkable story of one of racing’s most famous horses was stashed away in a Port Campbell drawer. Brian Johnston, a collector of horse racing memorabilia, this week donated a price-less receipt documenting the purchase of super stallion Carbine at a New Zealand yearling sale in 1887 to the Australian Racing Museum and Hall of Fame. Carbine, the 1890 Melbourne Cup winner,  won 33 of his 43 starts and sired many champions. Read more.

► MANDURAH, WA: AS JULY 29 gets closer, the Dodd family pray it won’t bring another anniversary without knowing the whereabouts of their daughter Hayley. Still struggling with the nightmare they were thrown into almost 16 years ago, mother Margaret Dodd is clinging to hope that her daughter will be found. “Our emotions start to get high around at the end of June,” she said. “Every year we think: ‘Let us not have another anniversary without knowing’.'' Read more.

► LAUNCESTON, TAS: NINETY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Stephen Fagg was ‘‘devastated’’ to discover his home had been severely damaged by water after a frozen pipe burst on Saturday night, his daughter Linda Hughes said. Mr Fagg has recently moved to the Mount Esk aged care facility. His daughter has been renovating his home at the Launceston Retirement Village over the past three months in order to put it on the market to cover the costs incurred by his care. The renovations were completed last Wednesday with the installation of new carpet. Read more.

► CAMPBELLTOWN, NSW: A MARTIAL arts exponent who punched a woman in the face so hard she needed reconstructive surgery has been jailed for at least four years. Stan Churilov, 30, was given a head sentence of eight years, with four years non-parole, by Judge Jennifer English in the District Court at Campbelltown on Monday. He had pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent. Churilov, standing 195cm tall and weighing 105kg, changed forever the life of a slightly-built 67-year-old woman on the XPT passenger train near Galong on August 18 last year. Read more.

► Business and community groups have come together to implore Australia's state and federal leaders to take politics out of the discussion on tax reform as they prepare to gather for Prime Minister Tony Abbott's retreat in Sydney on Wednesday. As NSW Premier Mike Baird sparked furious debate with a proposal to increase the GST rate to 15 per cent, the groups called for the tax reform debate to be held "in an open, inclusive and transparent way that does not rule out options because it is politically expedient to do so."

► Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has signed off on key protocols that will clear the way for up to a million head of live cattle to be exported to China annually, opening up a major new market for Australian beef farmers. Mr Joyce's  approval of the health protocols on Monday comes just a week after Indonesia - another major market for Australian live cattle exports - announced it was dramatically reducing the number of cattle it will take. Read more.

► Victoria's most disadvantaged communities have shown little sign of improvement over the past 15 years, a report shows. It also finds that a tiny number of communities are shouldering most of the disadvantage burden in the state, in a pattern that is repeated in other states and territories. The Dropping off the Edge report, published by Catholic Social Services and Jesuit Social Services, tracked 667 Victorian postcodes across 22 indicators of disadvantage. It then looked at the number of times a postcode occupied a top 5 per cent spot with an indicator, finding that just 4 per cent of postcodes occupied 28 per cent of the top spots. 

► Bronwyn Bishop's love affair with charter flights began nearly two decades ago when she was a junior minister in the Howard government, with the now Speaker amassing a near $140,000 bill over four years. The $139,196.01 outlay is close to seven times the amount spent by two other then-junior ministers — Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey — on charter flights in the same January 1998 to December 2001 period. Mrs Bishop was junior defence minister in 1998 and spent $20,961.18 in that period. After the October election that year, she served as minister for aged care and spent $118,234.83 before being sent to the backbench in November 2001 after the election. Read more.

► July 21, 1951: The world was made a brighter place when comedian and actor Robin Williams was born. The multi-talented American started out as a stand-up comedian, then rose to fame as Mork in Mork and Mindy. He continued in a wide range of roles, such as Airman Second Class Adrian Cronauer in war comedy Good Morning, Vietnam; English teacher John Keating in the drama Dead Poets Society; and as the Genie in Aladdin. He pulled on a wig and stockings as Mrs Doubtfire and became an adult 'wild child' in Jumanji. Williams won several awards for his efforts, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Good Will Hunting, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Grammy Awards. Sadly, Williams died in August last year, aged 63. Reflect on some of his most memorable roles below:

► Grimaldi, Italy: I ask an old man in Grimaldi's little village square where I can find the Path of Hope, the Cammino della Speranza. "No, no," he says, in pieces of Italian, French and English: "Non, non. Il Passo della Morte. The Pass of Death. Not possible." He mimes with his hands a steep drop, as if falling over a cliff. There is a trail with a storied history that runs over the Alps where they stoop to the sea and divide France from Italy. It was recently dubbed The Path of Hope. But its other, older name is the Pass of Death. Read more.

► An 18-year-old woman has become the first child and teenager in the world to experience "long term-remission" from HIV, boosting hopes her case will help the search for a cure. On Tuesday, French doctors revealed the young woman had been in remission from the virus for 12 years after stopping antiretroviral treatment. This means she has undetectable levels of HIV in her blood and is therefore extremely unlikely to be able to transmit it to anybody else. Usually when people stop antiretroviral​ treatment, HIV returns to detectable levels in their blood within two to three weeks. Read more.

THE term hero barely does Lal Lal youngster Aedan Bamford justice.

The brave seven-year-old received high commendation from Ambulance Victoria on Monday for his courageous actions at the scene of a family car crash on April 1.

Aedan helped his younger sisters Paige and Alyssa out of the vehicle before alerting a passerby who helped paramedics remove his mother and driver, Jessica Peillon, from the wreckage on the Clarendon-Lal Lal Road.

Details of the crash are unknown, but paramedics remain astounded there were no fatalities after the station wagon rolled into a tree. Read more.