THEY’RE creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky … but they’re not the Addams Family. Frankston Theatre Group has its own family house of horrors to spotlight later this month. Its ‘Tiptoe Through The Tombstones’ play will hit the stage at Mt Eliza Community Centre in the last week of November and first week of December. The comedy chiller spoof features a crusty lawyer and his secretary encountering the Tomb Family, “an offbeat bunch” whose home features cobwebs, secret corridors and a rising number of bodies in the cellar. Play director Joyce Sedunary said she was…
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JAZZ virtuoso James Morrison will again headline next Sunday’s Proudly Frankston’s annual Long Lazy Lunch, this time under the big top on Frankston Park oval. The world acclaimed musician and composer, who played with legendary performers Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Don Burrows and BB King, will bring along his JM Academy Band to join Frankston High School’s Stage Band. For the past two years Morrison, performing with Frankston High students, has brought audiences to their feet with trumpet and sax renditions of jazz classics and his own compositions. Tickets are still available for the South East Water-sponsored feast of music,…
Frankston Crime Investigation Unit detectives are on the hunt for a thief who used a stolen credit card to commit a series of deceptions across Melbourne’s south-east. The credit card was used to purchase cigarettes, a skateboard, gift cards and alcohol at a number of stores in Frankston, Springvale and Mulgrave between 12.30-3.00pm on 13 October. Each of the purchases were under $100 and were made using tap and go technology. In total, almost $400 was spent at six stores. Police are investigating how the credit card was obtained. Investigators have trawled through CCTV and released images of a man…
A 47-YEAR-old Patterson Lakes woman had her car hijacked at the Chelsea shopping centre, 7.50am, Saturday. The woman was sitting in her 2005 Honda CRV in Nepean Hwy talking on her mobile phone when a man opened the driver’s side door and ordered her out. The man, 29, later found to be of no fixed address, got in and drove off erratically. He later crashed the car into another at the intersection of Springvale and Pillars roads, Bangholme, and, when people stopped to help, he jumped into a car owned by a 63-year-old Bangholme man and crashed that one, too.…
A 15-year-old teen has been remanded in custody following a head on collision in Mordialloc early Monday. The collision occurred on Governor Road, near the intersection of Spray Street when it appears the teen, driving an allegedly stolen BMW east, crashed into a Ford sedan travelling west, just after 7.30am. A 47-year-old Carrum Downs woman, driving the Ford, was taken to The Alfred hospital and is currently believed to be in a life-threatening condition. The boy was arrested by police at a fast food outlet in Chelsea Heights after allegedly leaving the scene, shortly after the crash, and was taken…