A firefighter puts out a blaze which gutted a car at a service station in Newport, in Sydney's north, on the morning of November 3, 2012. Mackenzie Price arrived at the scene not long after the first fire truck and managed to capture this photo. He said the front half of the car was destroyed but it seems the driver got out unharmed.
Punters make their way home from Flemington racecourse on Melbourne Cup day on November 6, 2012.
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