A 91-year-old war widow is set to be reunited with priceless family heirlooms including medals and a Second World War service photograph of her husband thanks to some sharp detective work by Frankston police. A Frankston drug squad detective noticed a display of medals and war memorabilia in the lounge room of a Frankston North house while executing a search warrant on an unrelated matter last week. The framed collection, right, contained a photograph of flight rigger Robert Headlam, his Second World War medals, including an Australia Service Medal, Pacific Star, War Medal and Star, identification tags and Royal Australian…
Author: Chris Brennan
AN elderly man was hit and killed by a car while standing next to his wife by the side of the Nepean Highway at Frankston on Thursday (31 July). Police said the elderly couple had been driving south on Nepean Highway before parking their vehicle opposite the beach near the bottom of Olivers Hill just before the incident occurred about 12.15pm. The man and woman were standing to rear of their car, possibly waiting to cross over the road, when a white Ford station wagon “veered off the road and struck the man”, police said. Their car, which was parked…
CHELSEA has been selected as the site of the country’s first shellfish reef restoration project under a ground-breaking partnership between the state government and one of the world’s largest conservation groups. The Nature Conservancy has joined forces with the Department of Environment and Primary Industries in a three-year project to identify the most effective means of resurrecting decimated shellfish colonies within Port Phillip. Colonies of shellfish such as muscles, oysters and scollops are recognised as a critical element in bay health, providing a vital habitat and food source for a wide spectrum of marine life while also acting as natural…
A FOCUS on high visibility policing and the targeting or recidivist road offenders has helped significantly reduce deaths and serious injuries on Kingston roads. Senior Sergeant John Cormack was appointed mid last year to head the Moorabbin highway patrol unit, with a brief to refocus road policing efforts to drive down incidents of road trauma. Since the change to highway patrol’s “business model” in 2013, which aimed to “align our enforcement activity with areas of highest road trauma”, Senior Sergeant Cormack a dramatic decrease in collisions, especially those involving fatalities and serious injury, had been achieved. “We are very determined…
POLICE are on the hunt for graffiti vandals who caused thousands of dollars worth of damage during a “tagging” spree in Frankston. Investigators from Frankston’s graffiti taskforce, Operation Canned, are appealing to the public to help identify the vandals after a business and sports facility were sprayed with multiple tags in two separate incidents last month. Operation Canned investigator First Constable Catherine Mussared, who is based at Carrum Downs police station, said the first incident occurred at building on McMahons Rd between 9pm on 2 June and 6am on 3 June. A sports ground on Hillcrest Rd was hit ten…