POLICE operation “Birds of Prey” resulted in over 400 arrests for vehicle crime related offences in the last year. The operation, which began in March 2019, has taken place across Kingston, Frankston, Mornington Peninsula, Port Phillip, Stonnington, and Glen Eira Bayside. Police have made 408 arrests and charged people with more than 2,950 vehicle crime-related offences, including theft of and theft from motor vehicles. A 34-year-old Seaford man was charged with 129 offences, including theft of motor vehicle, theft from motor vehicle, carjacking, armed robbery, arson, assault, property damage, and theft offences. Victoria Police Inspector Justin Cornford said the Birds…
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A LOCAL netball pioneer had been named Kingston’s citizen of the year for 2019. Helen Hollis was awarded the honour at council’s Australia Day awards ceremony on 26 January. Ms Hollis founded the Edi-Asp Eagles Junior Netball Club in 2003, and went on to found the Edithvale Aspendale Netball Club in 2009. Edithvale-Aspendale has gone on to become a powerhouse club, winning 24 premierships over 10 years of competition. Ms Hollis’ work in netball extends beyond the clubs she founded. She also has lobbied for extra facilities and courts in Bonbeach and Chelsea. Other nominees for the awards included Brian…
PLAYS and playwrights go in and out of fashion but some endure and speak to each subsequent generation. Ray Lawler’s much-loved tale of Queensland cane cutters and Melbourne barmaids has endured, not through nostalgia, nor because it spawned a new age in Australian writing, but because the characters and their dilemmas are so true, so beautifully observed, so humorous and so poignant. A triumph at its 1955 Melbourne premiere, followed by a national tour and hugely successful season in London’s West End where it won an award for best new play, this production of the Australian classic Summer of the…
Updated: Wednesday, 29 January 2020 Frankston police have charged a woman after a pensioner’s wallet was allegedly stolen at a Frankston shopping centre earlier this month. It is alleged the woman took a large amount of cash out of a misplaced wallet in a Cranbourne Road newsagency on 9 January. The 55-year-old Malvern East woman has been charged with one count of theft. She was bailed to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on 20 July 2020. Victoria Police News – Wednesday, 29 January 2020 POLICE are searching for a woman in relation to their investigation into a stolen wallet. Police…
A MAN is set to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court accused of firearm, drug, and weapon offences. Southern Metropolitan Divisional Response Unit police officers executed a search warrant at an address on Rock Daisy Drive, Cranbourne West, around 5am 17 January. They allegedly found and seized a handgun, ammunition, various quantities of drugs, a large sword, and cash. Police charged a 31-year-old Cranbourne West man with firearm, drug, and weapons offences. He was remanded to appear at Frankston Magistrates’ Court on 30 January. Police also charged a second man, a 28-year-old Cranbourne resident, with drug offences. He was bailed and…