POLICE are searching for a man who sexually assaulted a person on a Frankston line train on Friday 24 February. The man boarded at Flinders St and sat next to the victim when a seat became available. During the journey he sexually assaulted the victim, causing the subject of the man’s unwanted attention to move away. The offender followed the victim off the train for a short time when both exited the train at Seaford. The man is of Indian or Middle Eastern appearance, in his 20s, with a slim build and short dark hair. He was wearing a grey…
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PHOTOGRAPHER Josh Brnjac is taking a shot at making a living from his passion by setting up his own business in Frankston at the age of just 15. The Somerville resident has set up a business in Frankston in the Frankston Foundry co-working space established last year. His entrepreneurial efforts in booking about $20,000 in sales with the help of mural company Pickawall Australia has seen the budding businessman named the first Peninsula Young Entrepreneur of the Year. “Many people assume because of my age I am inexperienced or I charge painfully low rates, but this is something that I…
VETERAN journalist and singer Barry Morris feels as though he grew up with singer Frank Sinatra. “His music has been a background musical score to my life,” Morris, a former jazz writer and sub-editor with Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph, said this week. Two years ago, he and his wife Jill moved to Mt Martha to be closer to their children and grandchildren. Born in 1941, Morris says he became aware of The Voice when Sinatra was recording hit after hit for radio, well before the advent of television. “It was his years with Capitol Records from 1952 to 1962 that…
HOMICIDE Squad detectives are investigating after a woman died in Frankston Hospital on Tuesday 28 March. Emergency services were called to a boarding house in Daly St at 5.30am, Saturday 25 March, where a 45-year-old woman was found in a critical condition. She died in hospital days later. Belinda Batty, of police media, said the exact circumstances surrounding the woman’s injuries are unknown and the investigation is ongoing. Call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or see crimestoppersvic.com.au First published in the Frankston Times – 10 April 2017
A FAULTY battery is believed to have caused the fire which destroyed a Chelsea SES transport vehicle last Wednesday (29 March). A Kingston Council worker saw smoke coming from a garage at Bonbeach Reserve, Scotch Parade, just after lunch and called the CFA. Units from Patterson River and Edithvale arrived to find the four-wheel-drive well alight. “Their quick response and great work isolated the fire to a single garage saving our maintenance shed and boat shed from any major damage,” Phil Wall, of Chelsea SES, said. “The vehicle is a right off and damage is being assessed to a boat…