AN elderly couple was forced to flee their home after an armed man burst into their lounge room during a dramatic siege in Frankston last week. The couple’s home in Reid St was one of three properties allegedly “invaded” while occupants were inside during a police chase on Monday afternoon. A 36-year-old Frankston man was later arrested and remanded in custody on multiple charges including three counts of aggravated burglary following a 45-minute stand-off with police. The drama began when the alleged offender ran from police after his vehicle was pulled over in Lardner St, near Monash University, about 12pm.…
Author: Chris Brennan
THE retirement holiday dreams of an elderly Patterson Lakes couple have been shattered by a “wannabe rastafarian” thief who stole their $70,000 caravan from the driveway of their home in broad daylight. Ron and Leonie Higman were just days from setting off on a three-month outback holiday adventure to Darwin when their fully loaded Jayco Sterling caravan was stolen on Thursday 10 July. Not only was the caravan locked and secured at the top of their driveway by a wheel clamp, tow-bar lock and wheel chocks, the couple was also at home just metre away in their back garden when…
THE state opposition has backed Frankston Council’s call for a full interchange at the intersection a Western Port Highway and Ballarto Rd, despite Vicroads opposing the plan. ALP spokesman for roads Luke Donnellan, who last week visited the intersection with Labor candidate for Carrum for Sonya Kilkenny, Cranbourne MP Jude Perera and Frankston councillor Colin Hampton, said a full interchange was essential to avoid chaos on Frankston roads. VicrRoads, which is overseeing planning for $1 billion upgrade of the Western Port Highway, has proposed an overpass at Ballarto Rd that would cut access to the highway and force traffic on…
FRANKSTON South woman Hayley Crick last week joined hundreds of thousands of thrill-seekers from around the world in the Spanish town of Pamplona for the annual Running of the Bulls. But unlike the vast majority of visitors celebrating the week-long San Fermin festival, the 23-year-old former Flinders Christian Community College student, took to the cobbled streets of Pamplona to protest the “cruel” practice of bull fighting. Ms Crick, a trained mid-wife, joined a demonstration organised by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) UK and the Spanish group AnimaNaturalis to raise awareness of the brutal reality behind one of…
REPRESENTATIVES of 30 Frankston and Mornington Peninsula aged care centres last week attended a meeting with Assistant Minister for Social Services Senator Mitch Fifield to voice their concerns over this month’s federal government changes to the aged care sector. MP for Dunkley Bruce Billson invited Senator Fifield to brief the gathering of senior executives representing aged care centres across the peninsula following implantation of a range of “user pays” changes to sector. The national Living Longer, Living Better aged care reforms, which came into force on 1 July, could see some elderly residents of aged-care homes pay up to 50…