A WORKSHOP on the relationship between birds and plants will be held next month at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne. The workshop is being held at the end of this year’s National Bird Week (23-29 October) with presenters focussing on greater understanding of Australian birds, their behaviour, their requirements and their conservation. From 7.30am on Sunday 29 October there will be an optional opportunity to participate in the “What Bird is That?” presentation conducted by BirdLife Australia’s Mornington Peninsula branch in the Cranbourne bushland, followed by breakfast. The presentation follows warnings last month from the branch’s president, Max Burrows, that…
Author: Bayside News
A BUSINESS case for the long-mooted electrification of the Frankston line to Baxter will go ahead after the federal and state governments got onboard a unity ticket to look at the plan. Federal Dunkley Liberal MP Chris Crewther announced last Friday (22 September) that the Labor state government and federal Coalition government had agreed to pursue the business case Mr Crewther announced on the eve of last year’s federal election. “We’re now able to proceed as the state government have finally decided to play ball by submitting an initial and now revised project scope, after ignoring the federal funding on…
A woman is expected to be charged after allegedly driving straight through a booze bus site in Frankston South last night. The woman entered the site on the Nepean Highway, but failed to stop with Somerville Highway Patrol officers trying to wave her down shortly before midnight. She was eventually caught up with about 500 metres down the road. The 58-year-old, who was unlicensed and driving an unregistered vehicle, returned a positive preliminary breath test. She was taken back to the bus for an evidentiary breath test, returning an alleged reading of 0.198 per cent. Her vehicle was immediately impounded…
A MAN allegedly threatened a woman with a screwdriver after she returned to her car at Karingal Hub shopping centre earlier this month and found him rifling her glove box. Acting Detective Sergeant Frank Olle, of Frankston police, said the Frankston woman managed to photograph the man (pictured) before he grabbed her phone and stomped on it, 8am, Monday 4 September. Police were later able to extract the image. The 28-year-old woman told police that after challenging the man they squared off beside the car. He pushed her over while threatening her with a screwdriver taken from the glove box.…
A CHELTENHAM liquor store attendant had no sooner dealt with a shoplifter than he was confronted by an armed robber who demanded cash and cigarettes, 9.30pm, Friday 15 September. The incidents at the Warrigal Rd shop began when two teenagers walked in and selected six packs of beer. The girl took her beer to the counter but the boy bolted out the door without paying. The attendant grabbed the girl’s six pack and she ran after him. A minute later, as he was closing for the night, the attendant was confronted by a man, described as African, waving a 15-20cm…