AN ambulance was involved in a car crash in Seaford, Sunday 1 November. At around 6.30pm, the ambulance was hit. Nine reported that the vehicle that crashed into the ambulance was allegedly stolen. It was also reported that a patient was inside the ambulance at the time of the crash, who was later taken to Frankston Hospital. The driver was arrested. First published in the Frankston Times – 10 November 2020
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A WOMAN was caught driving at nearly five times the legal blood alcohol limit in Black Rock last week. At 9.45am on 27 October, police were called to a petrol station on Balcombe Road. A woman had allegedly crashed into metal bollards protecting a petrol bowser. Police allege that when they arrived the woman was trying to get back in her car. A preliminary breath test was administered, and the woman was taken back to Moorabbin police station. There she returned a blood alcohol reading of 0.234 on her evidentiary breath test. Police allege that the woman’s car contained multiple…
By Jake Pike THE death of a family member or friend is never easy. COVID restrictions have highlighted the pain caused when those closest are not afforded closure around the death of a loved one. But this pain and uncertainty is not an unprecedented pandemic phenomenon, it’s a feeling all too familiar for the friends and family of the women found in Tynong North and Frankston between 1980 and 1983. Despite the six-million-dollar reward and multiple investigations, the murders of Catherine Headland, Bertha Miller, Allison Rooke, Joy Summers, Narumol Stephenson and Ann-Marie Sargent have gone unsolved for forty years. While…
MUSICIANS are finally taking to the stage again at the Frankston Arts Centre. The seats may have been empty but the stage certainly was not. Four acts performed on 29 October to an online audience. The concert was put together as a way of helping struggling artists who have been hurt by effects of COVID-19. The pandemic has been devastating for the arts industry, with live shows being cancelled for most of the year. Mt Eliza indie pop act Teenage Dads, Rye based soul band Velvet Bloom, Frankston rapper Boler Mani, and Frankston band Subcult rocked the Arts Centre for…
RADIO station RPP FM turned to television to hold a virtual gala ball that raised $75,000 for the Children First Foundation. Realising restrictions caused by COVID-19 would destroy its major 2020 event, foundation executive officer Elizabeth Lodge approached RPP breakfast host John Shore who arranged a TV broadcast of the big night. “We dared to dream, took a risk, and the outcome was awesome,” she said. Observing strict COVID protocols, the RPP crew of MC John Shore, co-host Amy Campion and technical producer Steve Meyers, used RPP’s TV broadcasting ability to stream the event live to a national audience. The…