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…
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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…
Police have located a second Ferrari burnout in Frankston this morning which is believed to be one of two Ferraris stolen from a business in Braeside last week. Emergency services were called to Jolly Street just before 6.30am and found the red 1986 328 Ferrari fully alight. Kingston Crime Investigation Unit detectives are continuing to investigate the theft of the two luxury Ferraris and appeal for anyone with information to contact police. A red 1972 365 GTB/4 model Ferrari, which was valued at over $2 million, was located burnt out in Langwarrin on Saturday. The two vehicles were taken from…
AN all-abilities dance crew based in Frankston is preparing to bust some moves at a free fun day on Sunday 29 November. The BAM Allstars group runs weekly dance classes for children, teens and adults with disabilities in Frankston and Brighton. It was started by Lisa Murphy, who founded the group in 2009 when she was looking for a dance class for her son, Buster, who has Down Syndrome. “Finding there was nothing suitable for his needs, I decided to get something started, and now, six years on, here we are,” she said last week. “It has been an enormous…
FRANKSTON detectives are seeking a man who robbed the 7-Eleven convenience store, Amayla Crescent, Carrum Downs, in the early hours of Thursday 15 October. A man wearing a dirt bike helmet, blue-and-white flannelette shirt, and shorts, approached the counter and verbally threatened a staff member, 22, before demanding cash. The man was handed a quantity of money and fled the store. No vehicle was seen. Detective Senior Constable Darren Paxton, of Frankston Embona Armed Robbery Taskforce, described the man as aged 30-40, 180cm tall, solid build with a pot belly. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers 1800…