A BRAESIDE businessman had his current model Holden SS sedan carjacked when he arrived at work, Monday 18 July. The man, 50, of Ferny Creek, was opening the gates to the Woodlands Dr premises at 7.50am when he “felt a presence behind him” and turned to see a man pointing a black handgun at him. He then noticed a white VW station wagon with two men inside parked behind his car. All appeared to be Polynesians. The gunman demanded the keys to his car – valued at $46,000 – and, when the businessman fumbled in his pocket for the keys,…
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AN absorbable heart stent was inserted in a Peninsula Health patient. This breakthrough for the health service was achieved by Associate Professor Jamie Layland, one of a few cardiologists in the world who has inserted this new absorbable stent. He and fellow cardiologist Robert Lew, also of Peninsula Health, are part of a worldwide team investigating the use of absorbable stents in patients with heart disease. A stent is a small mesh tube used to treat narrow arteries in the heart. Traditionally, a metal-based stent is placed in an artery of patients undergoing a coronary angioplasty – a procedure which…
SOUTHERN Metropolitan Region Crime Team Investigators have charged an 18-year-old Langwarrin man following two aggravated burglaries and a burglary in Rosebud in which a Kia car was stolen. They occurred at houses in Eighth Av and Tarwarri Av, 8 July. Police arrested the man at 7.40am Wednesday (13 July). He was charged with numerous offences, including aggravated burglary, intentionally causing injury, assault, theft and burglary. He was remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on a later date. The Kia was recovered at Langwarrin Football Club the following day. Sergeant Anthoula Moutis, of the media unit, said the police has…
WHALE watchers are recording the “busiest season on record” as sightings pour in from Western Port and Port Phillip. “The 2016 whale season has turned into a record breaker around our bays. We’ve just had our busiest weekend of sightings ever,” said Dolphin Research Institute, research officer David Donnelly said on Wednesday. “Winter in our bays and surrounding coastal waters has become something of a busy time for keen whale watchers. Large whales are now so regular in our waters that sightings have become an expectation rather than a novelty.” Mr Donnelly said although “hunted to the edge of extinction…
SCHOOLCHILDREN can showcase their Minecraft game skills in a competition to design the new Frankston train station. The state government’s Frankston Train Station Design Competition is open to Frankston schools’ pupils and students aged 6 to 16. The junior design competition has been launched ahead of a Frankston Train Station National Design Competition to be announced by the Office of the Victorian Government Architect. Frankston Labor MP Paul Edbrooke said he looks forward to posting some of the “awesome” designs on Facebook. “The junior design competition, launched in anticipation of the new Frankston train station, to be built by the…