STAGE legends Lucy Durack and Rob Mills are set to headline the free Carols by Kingston show this weekend. Carols by Kingston will take place at Bicentennial Park in Chelsea on Sunday. Durack and Mills will be joined on the setlist by Bobby Fox, the Australian Girls Choir, the Mordialloc Jazz Orchestra, and the event’s MC Rhonda Burchmore. The performances will be complemented by fireworks, food, craft activities, face painting, and an appearance from Santa. Kingston mayor Jenna Davey-Burns said “despite some gumboot weather last year, we still had a great crowd along, singing and dancing to our favourite festive…
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MORE than 80 drivers statewide were caught on their phones during a police operation last month. Police conducted Operation Spotto in November – they targeted drivers using phones and other devices. In just two days, police caught 86 drivers using mobile phones or devices. Fines of up to $577 and four demerit points can be applied to people caught on their phones while driving. Victoria Police road policing assistant commissioner Glenn Weir said “we’re seeing distraction contributing to far too many fatal and serious injury collisions this year, and yet in two days we’ve caught 86 people using their phones…
THREE allegedly stolen cars have been recovered from Seaford. Police allege the cars were stolen from residences in Prahran, Templestowe, and Bentleigh East between 3 September and 23 November. Two people were allegedly responsible for the thefts. On 25 November, police seized three cars, number plates, and allegedly stolen property from an address on Airlie Grove in Seaford. They arrested a 35-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman of no fixed address. First published in the Frankston Times – 5 December 2023
A NEW sculpture has been installed at the Peninsula Link’s Cranbourne Road ramp. Compass 2023 by artist Natasha Johns-Messenger was placed at the site last week. The steel pole sculpture stands 14 metres high and lights up after dark. Artist Natasha Johns-Messenger said the sculpture “responds to site – its scale, topography, light, spatial orientation, materiality and context. Engaging perceptual shifts inside simple geometric framing, my artworks aim to question our expectations of space and three-dimensional form.” “The forms of Compass 2023 are based on the navigation pillars of north, south, east and west, the smallest semi-circle pointing due north.…
Casey Highway Patrol officers intercepted a high range drink driver in Langwarrin this morning. Officers were patrolling Cranbourne-Frankston Road when they caught sight of a White Toyota Landcruiser with a faulty headlight about 12am. Police intercepted the car and spoke to the driver, a 34-year-old man from Narre Warren South. He provided an evidentiary breath test of 0.210, more than four times the legal limit. The driver had his licence suspended for 12 months and his car impounded for 30 days at a cost of $1042. He is expected to be charged on summons for traffic offences including drink driving.…