ABOUT 200 jobs will be lost in Mornington and Carrum Downs with closure of the Masters “home improvement” stores. The demise of the Woolworths-owned Masters chain comes as no surprise, considering its much-publicised failure to gain market share. Each store employs about 100 staff – full-time, part-time and casual. Woolworth’s media team on Tuesday said the Masters stores would “remain open as normal for some months to come”. “What we’ve announced is we intend to exit the business. How we exit, which will either be through the sale process or a wind-up process, has yet to be decided and an…
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A SECOND Frankston man has been charged with intentionally causing serious injury following the Sudanese basketball Summer Slam tournament at Frankston Basketball Stadium, 18-20 December. The event was billed as an important cultural event for the Australian-Sudanese community “uniting them through basketball”. After the final at the Bardia Av courts, a riot occurred at Kananook station, with up to 100 men involved. Many are said to be Sudanese from the western suburbs who drove to Seaford to “stamp their mark” on rivals here. After the brawl, a 23-year-old man was taken to Frankston Hospital in a critical condition with multiple…
A SEAFORD man was stabbed 19 times in a frenzied attack, 4.30am, Wednesday 20 January. The man, 36, was at a Claude St property with the occupant and the occupant’s female partner when the alleged attack occurred. Detective Senior Constable Ashley Eames, of Frankston CIU, said it appeared the trio had met that day and drank at Frankston and Seaford hotels before returning to the property late in the evening. The carousing continued in the driveway until the early hours when the occupant went to bed, but became agitated and went outside, allegedly attacking the victim with a kitchen knife.…
A CLOSE watch is being kept on power boats and jet skis to protect seals and other animals in Port Phillip. An increase in patrols by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning along the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula coastline follows rare visit to the region from an Antarctic crab-eater seal and the return of Australian fur seal Arcto to Dromana. The crab-eater seal was only 11th of its kind spotted in Victoria since 1856 and the first since 1999, while the bull seal Arcto was back at Dromana for the third year running. With peak boating season in…
Missing Persons Squad detectives have located a car they were searching for as part of the investigation into the disappearance of 17-year-old Cayleb Hough. The Chelsea Heights teenager was last seen in the vicinity of The Crescent, Highett in the early hours of Sunday 20 December. It is believed Cayleb was seen travelling in a blue 2003 Ford Falcon XR6 sedan with registration – SOG 812. Police located the blue Ford Falcon sedan in the car park at a Southbank entertainment complex about 1pm on Saturday. The vehicle will now be forensically tested. Investigators are keen to hear from anyone…