Compiled by Brodie Cowburn “PLEASE keep on sending us all the cigarettes you can”, was the message received the other day from a commanding officer at the front by the Over-Seas Club Southern Club Tobacco Fund. “I write this on behalf of all the men under my command,” he continued, “and I can safely say that every other would write you the same thing, in the meantime, please accept my sincere thanks for the case of Australian made cigarettes. They are a boon and a blessing.” *** IT has been officially reported through the Red Cross Bureau that Pte Arnold…
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The fiercest line up of Aussie rockers will be heading to the peninsula to play the best of AC/DC! Whole Lotta Rosie is going to electrify crowds as they tear up the stage belting out the classic AC/DC hits that spans an almost 45 year career for the iconic Australian rockers. The line-up for Whole Lotta Rosie features musicians from Australia’s most iconic rock bands The Screaming Jets and The Angels including Paul Woseen (The Screaming Jets), James Morley (The Angels), Dave Stevens (Son of Bon Scott), Gregg Aldridge, Kevin Hunt and Rohan Moran (formerly of Back in Black) and…
THE modern use of smartphone apps and services have been blamed for the axing of an award-winning visitors information centre on Frankston’s foreshore. Councillors voted behind closed doors after this month’s public council meeting held on Monday 16 October to close the Frankston Visitor Information Centre, located near Frankston pier, and open a new tourism information service in central Frankston. The Frankston Visitor Information Centre was inducted into the Australian Tourism Awards national hall of fame in 2015 after three consecutive gold award wins. A statement from Frankston mayor Cr Brian Cunial said tourists now rely on looking at visitor…
SIX rewards of $1 million will be paid for information leading to convictions in the murders of six women whose bodies were found in Frankston and Tynong North in 1980-81. The rewards are part of the police’s Operation Lyndhurst and are the largest ever offered in Victoria. They relate to the disappearance and murder of six women (above) – two from Frankston and four from other suburbs – between May 1980 and October 1981. On 30 May 1980, Allison Rooke, 59, was seen leaving her home in Hannah St, Frankston North, 11am, intending to catch a bus to the shops.…
FIVE of Frankston’s ‘10 most wanted’ have been arrested since their mugshots and brief descriptions of their alleged crimes were published in The Times (“Frankston’s most wanted sought”, 2/10/17). Police also received information on four others. “The arrest of the five helped clear up 29 outstanding warrants, and three of the five are still in custody,” Detective Senior Constable Kerryn Merrett, of Frankston CIU, said. Thirty-two others have been processed for outstanding warrants, with 10 handing themselves in after being contacted by police and others simply walking into the station, on Fletcher Rd, to be charged. “It is important that…