Enter your short film in the Peninsula Short Film Fest and you could win a share in up to $30K of cash and prizes. Get filming and enter now! 20 short listed films will be judged live on Saturday February 4, 2017 by top industry professionals with the winner taking out $5K in cash, second place $2.5K cash and third place scoring $1250 cash. There are plenty more cool prizes with awards for Best Animation, Best Documentary, Best International and the Woodleigh School Emerging Filmmaker Award (open to any Australian student under 18 years of age). There are also awards…
Author: Bayside News
A 54-YEAR-OLD Frankston man will face court on charges of dangerous driving causing death and other traffic related offences relating to a fatal collision in Langwarrin earlier this year. A 17-year-old Langwarrin girl was crossing the intersection of Cranbourne-Frankston Rd and Long St when she was struck by a garbage truck, 8.10am, Tuesday 16 February. She was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries but died in hospital. Major Collision Investigation Unit detectives charged the man who appeared at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, Tuesday 20 September. The case has been adjourned for a committal mention at a date to be fixed.
DETECTIVES are investigating the death of a Frankston man after a confrontation with security staff outside a Bunnings’ Warehouse, 11.15am, Monday. The 31-year-old, of Screen St, reportedly collapsed during the altercation and complained of feeling unwell. He was taken to Frankston Hospital where he died, surrounded by his family, on Monday night. Bunnings managing director Michael Schneider said his company had launched an “internal investigation” into the incident in the car park of the Gertrude St store. The statement alleged the man was “attempting theft before being apprehended by loss prevention officers”, Mr Schneider said. “Our thoughts and sympathies go…
THREE men attacked the driver and passenger of a white Ford utility leaving Thrift Park shopping centre, Friday night, 9 September. The driver, 39, of Patterson Lakes, told police they were about to leave via the Nepean Hwy exit, 10pm, when a man stepped from the curb and directed them to a side car park. When they stopped the man reached in and grabbed the car keys – and then punched the driver twice to the face when he attempted to retrieve them. The man then demanded his wallet and money. The car’s passenger received a deep gash to his…
A SEAFORD man who scuffled with PSOs in the Carrum station car park on Saturday night, 10 September, has been charged with several offences, including assaulting an emergency worker on duty. Police said the protective services officers became involved in a row with three “aggressive and alcohol-affected males” who they said were abusing a taxi driver. The men became “uncooperative and more aggressive” when they got out of the taxi and a struggle ensued with one of the men, 9pm. A PSO was kicked to the back of the head and the alleged offender, 45, scraped his forehead on the…