CRIME in Frankston is on the up, increasing by nearly 20 percent in the 2023/2024 financial year. The Crime Statistics Agency released its yearly figures last week. It revealed that there were 16,252 offences recorded within the Frankston municipality in the year ending June 2024. That figure is a 19.2 percent increase on the year prior. The number of offences recorded in the Frankston LGA is nearly at a ten-year high. In the last decade, only the year ending June 2016 had a higher offence rate per 100,000 Frankston residents.There were more than 2200 breaches of family violence orders in…
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CHANGES to the design of plastic bottles will help prevent litter at local beaches and waterways, environmentalists say. Beach Patrol Australia says that plastic straws and drink bottle lids are among the most frequently littered items on Australian beaches. It says that caps tethered to plastic bottles would help prevent pollution.BPA co-founder Dr Ross Headifen said “we collect hundreds of lids on our beaches every day. By mandating tethered caps, we can significantly reduce plastic pollution, avoiding millions of bottle tops from leaking into our environments.” “Our volunteers simply can’t keep up, we need to stop plastic entering our oceans…
By Brodie Cowburn PROVINCIALTHE MPCA season got off to a false start last Saturday, with most games washed out.A handful of overs were played at Overport Park. Langwarrin scored 4/68 from 19 overs before their match against Baden Powell was called off.The Old Peninsula Pirates also got to spend some time at the crease. They scored 3/63 from 18 overs before their match against Heatherhill was abandoned.The remaining games in the Provincial division were also washed out. PENINSULARAIN stopped a nail-biting match between Seaford and Rosebud from reaching its conclusion last Saturday.RF Miles Reserve hosted the two sides in the…
BEAUMARIS tried to prize Adam Jamieson from Mornington’s grasp just when he was weighing up his options for 2025. “For the first time in a long time I had offers from other clubs and I did catch up with Beaumaris through a contact,” Jamieson said. “But Mornington … well I just feel like we’re so close and there’s so much good stuff happening that I didn’t want to give up on our plan.”Jamieson doesn’t try to mask the fact that Mornington has had “one of those debacle years”. One of the pre-season promotion favourites the Seagulls finished in the bottom…
Compiled by Cameron McCullough AN interesting case was heard at the Chelsea Court on Monday, before Messrs. Cohen, P.M., and Hunter, Bowman, Stephens, Callahan, and Beardsworth, J.’sP., when Constable T. E. Nicholls proceeded against Albert William Bates on a charge of having on the 31st May, 1924, at Edithvale, driven a motor car, on a public highway, negligently, having regard to all the circumstances of the case.Eric Bell deposed that he was proceeding by motor cycle, from Mentone to his home at Chelsea, and with him seated on the back of his cycle was Mr. E. Saw, also of Chelsea.They…