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.…
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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…
CLARINDA residents can breathe easy after the Alex Fraser Group withdrew its application to extend the operation of its concrete crushing operations at Kingston Rd. The withdrawal comes after Planning Minister Richard Wynne announced Green Wedge land north of Kingston and Heatherton Rds will be rezoned from Special Use, allowing waste businesses, to a Green Wedge A Zone (‘Time to take out the trash in Green Wedge’, The News 21/10/15). The Alex Fraser Group had been due to appeal a council decision rejecting an extension of their existing licence to operate in Clarinda at VCAT. Kingston mayor Cr Geoff Gledhill…
EIGHT more level crossings will be removed along the Frankston line as part of the Labor state government’s promise to separate 50 road and rail intersections across Victoria’s rail network. Premier Daniel Andrews visited Carrum on Sunday to announce that the crossings to be separated from rail lines are likely to be removed as a single package of works “reducing disruption to residents, motorists and train passengers”. Work has already begun on the removal of the Centre, North and McKinnon Rd level crossings, which will be gone by 2017. “We’re getting rid of 50 of Victoria’s worst crossings because they…
WORKS have begun on a $4 million lifesaving club and Indigenous gathering place in Mordialloc, with the “first sod” turned by club president Grant Rattenbury and the mayor, Cr Geoff Gledhill, last week. FIMMA Constructions have been chosen for the Peter Scullin Reserve lifesaving club – built in 1955 – and indigenous gathering place. The works have been funded by the council ($2.94 million), state government in association with Life Saving Victoria ($1 million) and the Mordialloc Surf Lifesaving Club ($100,000). Cr Gledhill said the project was a highlight of the council’s 2015-16 budget and would provide a valuable community…