Police are appealing for public information following an attempted abduction in Oakleigh on Monday 25 August. Investigators have been told a 19-year-old woman was walking west along Atherton Road near the intersection of Station Street around 10.40am when she saw a man leaning against the bonnet of a car. She noticed the car was running and the passenger door was slightly ajar. As she walked past, the man jumped out and grabbed her by the arm, pulling her towards the car. The young woman screamed and her attacker kissed her, in an apparent attempt to smother her cries. The teenager managed to get away by…
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SURGERY to ease the suffering of long-term asthma sufferers is now available at Frankston Hospital. It is the first time surgery to reduce the effects of asthma attacks on chronic asthma sufferers for whom traditional medications do not work has been offered in Victoria. Peninsula Health’s director of thoracic medicine, Professor David Langton, performed the procedure for the first time last week while accompanied by Harvard professor of medicine, Dr Armin Ernst, who pioneered the procedure. The bronchial thermoplasty procedure involves inserting a bronchoscope, or small tube, down the patient’s airway and into their lungs whilst they are under anaesthesia.…
Sexual Crime Squad detectives are appealing for witnesses following a sexual assault on a woman in Mordialloc on 22 February. A 19-year-old woman got off a Frankston-bound train at Mordialloc Railway Station with an unknown man whom she struck up a conversation with just after midnight. The pair walked together north-east along Bear Street to a reserve, near the corner of Chute Street, when the man sexually assaulted the victim. The offender then fled the scene and was last seen walking along Bear Street. The victim ran back to the railway station where she raised the alarm. The man is…
BANKERS will become bakers to whisk up cupcakes and biscuits in aid of a good cause. Staff at Frankston’s Bendigo Bank will host a Bake Off to raise funds for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Inspired by TV show MasterChef, staff will get cooking as part of Starlight’s Community Cooking Challenge. Starlight provides some brightness in the lives of seriously ill children by arranging fun events for their families. Bank acting manager Kerry Debernardi said the Bake Off was a way for the bank to make a difference to the lives of some Frankston families. “Raising this sort of money will…
CARRUM MP Donna Bauer is on a mission to make the Bowel Movement one of the most talked about campaigns in the country. Australia has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world. Of the 286 new cases diagnosed every week, 77 people will die from the disease. The campaign is particularly important for the 43-year-old mother of four after being diagnosed with the disease earlier this year. Mrs Bauer said that according to Bowel Cancer Australia, 40 per cent of people within her electorate have at least one of the following four health risk factors –…