3G NETWORKS across Australia will shut off this week.From 28 October, Telstra and Optus will switch off their 3G networks. Phones which are only compatible with the 3G network will no longer be able to make calls. The switch may affect calls to emergency services. Phones using 3G will not be able to contact 000.Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association CEO Louise Hyland said the change will mean more reliable 4G and 5G services. “Fast and reliable mobile network connectivity is critical for Australians and for our economy. The 3G network currently uses up spectrum that could be better served providing more…
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A FRANKSTON tobacco store is among the latest to be engulfed in a suspicious fire. Emergency services were called out to the Young Street tobacco store at around 4.40am on 22 October. They found the shop ablaze, and worked to extinguish it. In a statement, Victoria Police confirmed that it is investigating the incident. “It is believed a vehicle was driven into a store before the business was set alight. No one was inside at the time,” Victoria Police said. “The investigation remains ongoing.”The same night, a tobacco shop in Thornbury also went up in flames. Anyone with information can…
A YOUNG BMX star from Frankston is flying high after a big win at a national competition this month. 10-year-old Harla Sinclair, a member of the Frankston BMX Club, joined 2000 other competitors at the Australian BMX Championships in Perth between 8 October and 12 October. She won the 8-10 Girls Cruiser category, and finished third in the 10 Girls 20” division.Sinclair has now qualified for the 2025 UCI BMX World Championships in Denmark. She said “I loved my week in Perth. I had goals to win the 8-10 Girls Cruiser category and to go top 3 in 10 Girls…
CLIMATE change and “increasing urbanisation” is endangering the platypus population on the Mornington Peninsula, researchers say. The state’s platypus population is being assessed this spring breeding season using “eDNA testing”. Between 2021 and 2023, Melbourne Water sampled water at 1800 locations across the state – it detected traces of DNA shed into the environment from platypus mucus, urine, faeces, skin, and saliva. Melbourne Water detected platypus activity on the Mornington Peninsula. Its researchers are urging residents to take care to protect their environment.Dr Rhys Coleman, manager of waterways and wetlands research at Melbourne Water, said “in the face of declining…
POLICE have seized allegedly stolen passports from a Mordialloc factory as part of investigation into a drug trafficking ring.Police allege that the drug trafficking ring spans across Lilydale and Mordialloc. On 9 October, police raided a property in Mordialloc and allegedly seized three stolen passports, other fraudulent documents, and buprenorphine strips. They also raided a Lilydale property that day and allegedly found 7.75 litres of 1,4-Butanediol stored in professionally packaged bottles, as well as methylamphetamine, cocaine, MDMA, psilocybin, and buprenorphine.On 15 October, Victoria Police announced it had charged a 42-year-old Mordialloc man with traffick commercial quantity of 1,4-Butanediol, traffick methylamphetamine,…